Just some of the stupid things I see

It's just tickets and a complaint to the feds for a complaince review (out of state carrier). Now had he been involved in a wreck, you are looking at manslaughter charges if someone was killed.

 

I don't know how many CSA points, but when all your BASIC scores were bad to begin with, this didn't help them get better.

 

Had another driver today falsify his log right in front of me. Stopped him for 15 over. He was back on it about 15 hours. I asked where he had just left which he stated was a town about 15 miles from where I stopped him. He stated he stayed there about 10 hours arriving at a certain time. He then catches his log up so I can ensure he isn't over his hours, because he was 5 State's away with his last entry, 4 fuel stops that he didn't log and my rough math in my head was figuring he was over the 11 and 14 hour limits. So he catches his book up, after I returned to the car to put his other documents inside. I walk back up, he rips the page out and starts over. Now his last entry was yesterday morning at 9 am, 5 states away. I see him with the calculator, adding miles to average 65 mph he tells me later.

He then changes the "new page" for yesterday's date to 0400 hours in the same town on the driving line that he originally had on the log book page when I stopped him. So he cut 5 hours off what he already had. Then logs his stops for fuel and his sleeper berth in the town 15 miles away from the traffic stop. He had already told me he got to the town at 10 pm. He logs getting there at 5 pm. The only issue is two of his fuel receipts were time stamped and were more in line with the first page he created. Long story short, he was hauling produce, had left about 5 hours into his 10 hour break because the load was late and got caught cooking the books. He was decent and after he had told to many lies he said, " I'm done. I can't lie anymore. I can't get this load there in the amount of time the dispatcher wants. So I slept a little and hit the road and took a chance on not getting caught."

I had to give it to him for being honest and only wrote him a warning for the falsification. His trailer was out of service as well for brakes and tires. Had two tires on the back side by side that looked like they belonged at speedweeks in Daytona, not a tread grove one on them.

 

He was actually shocked himself. Look if a guy or gal is honest and straight forward I will cut them a break 99.9% of the time, depending on the violation. For example, if I stop someone and they smell like a brewery and tell me they are hammered, I appreciate their honesty but they are getting hooked. I have a saying an old troop taught me many years ago and I stole it from him. "The truth will set you free. You lie you fry." The folks I work with each and every day live by that as well. Most folks that I have ever dealt with since I been a trooper will lie to me. About 5% are actually honest from the moment you stop them. Some people are better liars than others. The body does not want to lie. A persons body does all kinds of mannerisms when they are telling a lie. After interviewing people for years, it becomes apparently obvious to me when I have a liar. When I used to do numerous criminal investigations before my current assignment I had a lot of interviews for various crimes. Some folks may start a lie and then spill the beans and say something like this, "I can't tell you that. This is the real story." I can deal with that. The ones I make an example of are the ones that continue to lie and ride that sinking ship all the way down. When you have them in a clear cut lie, at that time it seems to me to minimize the damages. I have a trucker on video. Pretty good video commiting a crime and even after I charged him he still came to court and continued to lie. Let's see the truck is clear as a bell, he is clear as a bell, truck # and tag number crystal clear in video. The only thing that doesn't add up is his story. He subscribed to the Eddie Murphy line from "Raw", "It wasn't me. It might look like me, but that wasn't me." SO after dealing with folks like that, it is refreshing to me to have someone be honest, even if they are in violation.