Dot warning tickets.

I wonder if a person driving a POV (personally owned vehicle) is liable and responsible for their vehicle? We are not paid for maintaining them, or are we required to sign anything stating that we have inspected each time before we drive it.

Yep, I think we are responsible and liable. Something happens that results in an accident is the quickest way to find out. Get stopped for whatever reason, and the cop sees you're running NHRA racing slicks, you don't have a muffler, tailpipe is dragging, ect., you may get inspected, and issued tickets. Really surprises people when you tell them you're going to inspect their car. Oh and can they get put Out of Service? Yep, it's called Operating an unsafe vehicle, and calling a tow truck. Been there done that.

 

Wish they'd do it more often. Should see some of the rolling wrecks on the roads up here. Lots of cars missing lights. If I do that, it gets attention in a big ol hurry. Four-wheelers get shined on.

 

No I dont get paid for it as in money for doing it, BUT if I find something wrong before they do I get it fixed and thus avoid a OOS and a road service call.
Take just the other day, The TA/Petro truck stops were having a free mid trip Insp. so if its free its for me. He told me nothing that I all ready knew and that was 3 of my drive brakes were at 50% and one was around 30%. Why the one is wearing faster than the others is anyone guess. Fast forward a few days and I'm under the truck looking around and the 30% now has a small crack in one of the pads so its time for a brake job on that axle. What I hate about doing it is,
(1 I had to do it on the road costing me about $100.00 more than if I had waited and done it at home.
(2 Is the fact that the other brake was at 50% and I'm not gonna do a half axle brake job to save a few bucks.

Now I could have went the lazy way and not checked things out myself and waited and chanced a Level 1 and they seen it put my ace OOS and with a road call.
Yes my coveralls work just fine and I for one dont mine getting under a truck, sun, rain or snow.

 

I dont get the warning thing, a warning for what? either theres a violation or theres not. but then again like taz said lets wait til we get caught before we are concerned.

 

old man got 14 violations <warnings> for HOS violations from a misery state dot.. the dot officer said 2hours offduty and 8hours sleeper did not constitute a 10 hour break. after pulling into ark, ms,al scales and having them all say it was legal. He called the MO state DOT up and was told the officer made a mistake,, no crime against that, and that since they were warnings you couldnt get em removed...

 

That's why you carry the green book with you, and know the sections that will affect you the most, such as hours of service.

 

Stranger, you argue the finer points of HOS with a DOT bear and then get back with us so we can find out how it worked out for ya.

 

I've had it go both ways. Disagreeing politely, and showing the section where the person you are speaking with may have interperted wrong can help, sometimes.

I've also gotten tickets anyway, and I have also gotten out of tickets. It never hurts to try. You get someone dead set on giving you a ticket, and nothing will help, but I have also met quite a few fine people at the scale house.

Just a few years ago I had a DMV dead set on charging me $600.00. I went off, as it was my truck, and I had to pay the ticket. After a few minutes of tense discussion, we all calmed down. He let me off with a $100.00 ticket. The ticket was legit according to their rule of law, but was also B.S. since their was no markings on that paticular major US highway that either 53' or 102" trailers were not allowed on that section.

The DMV officer admitted that he did not know half the rules in the book, and that he was just enforcing the ones the bosses told him to. I felt lucky, as I pointed out my interpertation of the law to him, and he pointed out what their interpertation was. He had to give me something anyway, so I got the minimum, and felt grateful for that. We parted on very friendly terms.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with, well, you know what.

 

i may be wrong but doesnt it say that they can only ticket you for log violations within the last 8 days or since your last restart?