Roadcheck 2012

I know exactly what the book states, I asked your posistion on it, since they claim to allow officer discretion? Would you let the log be sent to your scalhouse fax or view what was on screen?
I watched this woman for almost two hours last year and she clearly took great pleasure in harrassing drivers.
This one I will take great pleasure in cross examining. I done have once and I'm setting her up for lieing under oath hopefully I will be able to sue her and retire.

 

Time for more batteries and memory card

 

Now it's obvious most LEO's know the regulation book front to back, it's their job to. If the goal is safety, what difference does it make if a person hits print, or if it's on a screen, other than because that's what the book says. Like you said it's our job to "maintain & present", I think it would be easier to decipher print on a screen vs written scribble.

 

I wholeheartedly disagree. If the cops can get a rig with poor braking systems or exposed wiring in his steers that is hauling hazmat off the road, its a #### good thing. I don't want that idiot taking a turn to fast and killing people, do you?

Just do your job like you're supposed to and you won't have a problem.

 

Road Check 2012 is nothing more than legalized theft. I can't wait for the day we all have to go to e-logs. Instead of fighting e-logs OOIDA should fight for them. OOIDA should join with public citizen go in front of congress and also demand that all trucks be inspected 4 times a year at a licensed facility. They should demand all trucks weigh within 25-50 miles of a shipper. They should insist on speed limiters that adjust to within 2mph of a posted speed limit. Then issue a challenge to the FMCSA to demolish all the weigh stations across this country. Rather than play this cat & mouse game with DOT, bad carriers would hang themselves. States would save money by not having to maintain & man scales. It's a win, win.

 

I'm all for safety but there is a better and cheaper way to accomplish it. There are some stretches of road where you will cross 3 scales in approximately 50 miles, there is no way that's cost effective. Make the trucking industry police itself. I'd rather pay a private company $20 a month for a quick walk around, and pay for 4 full inspections on top of that a year. The reason that guy is running with a poor braking systems or exposed wiring in his steers, is because he wasn't inspected before they got to that point, which suggests the current system doesn't work. Now I look at it like this, if DOT is setting records for OOS violations during this blitz, they failed to do a good enough job normally. Why keep throwing money at a system that at best will inspect a very small fraction of trucks on the road. Think of the jobs that would be created by going private with compliance.

 

So instead of less government, we need more government? BAD idea.

 

If you guys do the "same job every day"....Why have "Road Check" in the first place?

 

Chicken....Take one for the team....

 

Red Bluff Coop wanted to write me up because I had 9 pages....Ooops....