Question for the cops

[DavidWhite]

While riding on 94 west almost to Madison, WI there was a couple state troopers going about 10mph down the highway slowing down traffic and being a general PITA - it wasn't a DUI stop because they never actually stopped - but what were they doing? Eventually they just turned off their lights and left.

 

[Jim Logajan]

While riding on 94 west almost to Madison, WI there was a couple state troopers going about 10mph down the highway slowing down traffic and being a general PITA - it wasn't a DUI stop because they never actually stopped - but what were they doing? Eventually they just turned off their lights and left.

There might have been debris on the road ahead - or some other temporary problem ahead - and they were slowing traffic to allow a road crew or another cop to clear the road. I believe they are called rolling roadblocks

 

[Jim Logajan]

I was using a less common name - here is a Wikipedia entry for traffic break, which is the maneuver those cops were employing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_break