Has been in training for 11 days now, tells me he got a ticket. Was in Indiana on Route 70 east his qualcomm said to get on 465 East but there is no east was supposed to be south. He said he had to wake his trainer up to tell him he was lost, so while they were going the wrong way with no way to turn around, sees NO sign stating "no trucks over 13 tons"(hauling 36 tons) but there was, the sign was so weather worn and unreadable. Cop gave him a break and took the ticket down from 500$ to 150$ KLLM stated will pay for it but it will be taken out in small amounts from pay check. Said had talked to other drivers and they(three of them) had got tickets as well in same area. Was only a mile away from being back on track when he got pulled over by unmarked police vehicle. Having unreadable signs is a way to generate revenue I guess.

Sounds like a ticket trap, good money maker for the county.

That's horrible. I feel your pain. The day that my boyfriend upgraded it was late in the afternoon. Everyone had already gone for the day, so he was told to stay put and he would get to meet everyone in the home office the next day. Then around 11:00 pm he gets a load to pick up at 6:00 in Louisiana. Of course he is excited since it's his first load. He ran over a mailbox and destroyed it on his very first load. I was sweating it thinking that he would be fired but he wasn't. KLLM does seem to be more generous than other companies to newbie mistakes.

I'm glad it worked out for him Kitty We live 11 miles from one of those revenue generators and it gives me nightmares about going O/O.

I was thinking about your hubbies day and it made me laugh (at myself) because it seems there's a snowball effect when you're new somewhere and a mistake happens. After my first month of doing this same thing all day long every day I messed up so bad I couldnt for the life of me figure out where my brain went! We back up to load cotton ALL day long and back up to unload each of them too. (Some days we'll haul around app. 20-30 each depending on whether short runs or long ones) I messed up loading one which is pretty much par for the course as no one gets through a season without messing up, but being my first one, it really stressed me out. We're always in a rush to get them in before rain etc. It had already been a long day, 14 hours driving and for some reason I could not get my last load unloaded. Seriously I'm laughing as I type this. All I had to do was back it in between two other modules, something I'd already done many times, and that truck wouldnt go where I wanted it to go. The lot was dark by then (no lighting) and everything just looked different due to the stress of the earlier mess up and the space to turn and back was much shorter on that one lot. Well, I still had an audience of two other drivers waiting on me to unload and get out of their way. By this time I'm in hysterical laughter, have to get out of my truck and walk around it to re-orient my noggin on the space and angle I need and, they're standing outside laughing with me and at me. I'm so grateful I work with some great guys lol.

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OH THE COPS are just waiting to give tickets Iam telling ya..lol

THE state boys out here where I live shoot alot of big rigs for speed...lol..

OUR STATE needs the money so they going to be giving tickets hand over fist for any little thing.

Doen't seem to scare some of the trucks as they pass me going over 70!

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Glad to hear your hubby caught two breaks, one from the ISP and the other from his company. But, I gotta play devil's advocate, and say before you get to the 465 loop, there is a pretty good amount of signage tellin trucks to get the hell off I70 (at least between I65 and the east side of town). But, again he caught a break and learned an important lesson: pull out the map and plan your route, and look for trouble spots, 'cause that effin QC ain't much of a help.

Well hell yeah CG, it seems that the MSP has finally figured out that all the four wheelers going over 80 are also speeding, so they have finally started to ticket them (about damn time,too). Just ran from GR home to DET, following a covered wagon, both going about 70, passing the old fogies and making good time.

Hey, sometimes you gotta get all you can, and then some!

Not so sure what exactly happened. Of course this is what I got from him telling me stuff over the phone(and while playing telephone things are known to change and important facts left out) and so to hear the absolute story, would have to get him to write it all out

Yeah I hear you, last ticket I got I 'forgot' a few details when telling the story to my wife, that one was my fault but the officer could have cut me some slack (logbook ticket). Of course he didn't...

I think everyone deserves a break if it's the first occurrence.

Yeah, but to be fair, how does the cop know if it's the first occurance? A dozen other cops could have let him off thinking they were the first.