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I'm about 10 hours from home and have 9:26 left on my 70, so it shouldn't be more than an hour or two of PC tomorrow. Honestly, I've driven home over 800 miles PC in the past over 2 days, and got inspected. The DOT cop asked about it, and I told him my return load was cancelled and so I went home. He said that was fine.

 

Come to montana and try it. They will interpret it completly different... that is why i barely use pc because it is no hard rule it is all a gray area that u are leaving up to the inspecter to determine..

 

That entire state is a gray area. I never go up there because there isn't much reefer freight in or out, and what there is doesn't pay much.

 

Just saying that dot here will write u a ticket every chance u get . Especially with any pc they will go thru it with fine tooth comb

 

MT never used to be bad until they closed some scales and put a majority of the officers in roaming pickups. Most of them used to be out east until the oilfield tanked. Now they have a bunch of people cruising the whole state.

The guidance for PC is clear, if they nitpick let them write you a ticket and fight it. Usually a good court case in MT slows them down. The scale at Lima was closed for a while summer once back around 09 because the crooked old guy wrote the wrong person a bs ticket who just happened to have the money and time to go to court about it.

 

My very first trips were from West Chicago, IL to Kent, WA week after week, back and forth with paper rolls. I don't think there was a single trip that I would not get pulled over on one of the scales either in Montana or Washington.
The most notorious was Haugan, MT scale - there worked a frizzy hair guy who behaved like some SS-Standartenführer.
He liked to play an Immigration officer at that scale - I guess it was post 9/11 reaction - he did not like the look of my Green Card at the time like it was fake or something and actually called INS to verify it. He did that every time I went on that scale! In November 2002 I became citizen and did not have the green card any more so when he asked for it I said defyintly that I had no green card. He asked "how so?" I said "I have no green card and don't care about having one. I am like you now." SS-Standartenführer said then "Oh...I remember you."
Then there was that Spokane scale mustache funny dude that wore glasses...He always said "Everyone is fudging logs but don't show me that you came here all the way from Billings to Spokane Valley averaging more than 60mph"
He did not mind putting someone to rest for 8 hours but he never did it to me.
Old funny days...

 

Wrong. ELD was mandated because deep pocketed lobbyists for mega carriers wanted to "level the playing field".

 

The guidance for PC is not so clear. It's easy to just say "fight it" when you're not entangled in some bogus citation over it. And it's easy to say that about someone else's business too. But who has time for that BS?

All the hand wringing over it and internet discussions wasted on it. That you have to sit there and say to yourself "OK I'm going to PC over here" is crazy.

On paper this isn't even something to consider. I've never PC'd anywhere on paper in 20 years. Before the implementation of ELD no-one ever talked about PC. It was a regulation few even knew about.

 

Like drivers aren’t cheating with eld’s. I’ve seen more than a few creeping down city streets and others talking about unplugging the speed sensor.

 

I see PC as a little leverage I have left from paper flexibility. Because I'm independent I decide how I can use it so there is no restriction other than what they have in their guidelines which is vague anyway.
Definitely, I'd rather use PC in such vague situations in my favor and worry about it being counted against me than the other way around.