pulled over for my first time....

Ok. Clearly I am not alone in the brevity challenged.

Funnin'

 

Hey nc, I do believe you're gonna make it. Watching other drivers and not being afraid to ask a question is by far the best thing to do. I know many drivers will gladly give info IF YOU ASK. They may not tell you, unless you ask, but once you do ask, just about any trucker in the world will show you because they know that's how they learned. Once, I rode along with a steel hauler, to find out if I liked it, which I didn't, but we went to pick up a couple of coils, and I asked the guy, how do you know how to secure these things, as there is no room for error when hauling coils(or any flat bed stuff), he told me, just observe how other drivers do it.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4020713]HA, BP, that is funny, however, I've found police generally don't have ANY sense of humor, especially women cops. Years ago, when the scales were run by old men (seemed officers close to retirement would get scale duty), you could joke with them, but these new officers are strictly business.[/QUOTE]

They are people just like us. They laugh, cry, and bleed to. If the cop has been having a decent day it might not be a problem. If he/she has been having a bad day, it might get me yanked out of the truck and put on the ground. If it was a female trooper, I might just get a, "You're d@mn right".

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_nvQht7-c

 

That has to be one of the most intelligent things I've ever read from a rookie.

 

HA, that is awesome. That's the last thing I would expect from a cop. Judging by the faces of the people stopped, they thought so too. BTW, mpow66m, are you a cop?

 

I was stopped at a seldom used scale in Florida last week. Only 5 miles from the house. Very young officer called me in, said I was about 1800 over gross. Ok, no problem. As he was writing ticket, I commented I had never seen him before,as I go by that scale daily. He said he had only been a DOT officer a few months, transferred in from a local county sheriff's office. As we continued taliking, I told him I had just purchased a continous camera for my dash. He asked why would I do that. Told him to record how other vehicles pull out in front of me, cut me off, stop quickly. I figured he knew what I was talking about. He said ( and I quote ) " Do they really do that ? ". Amazed, I said they sure do,haven't you seen that ? He replied " I have never ridden in a truck, never knew that was a problem ". I was amazed. he said until he got the job several months ago, had never been close to a big truck. Since he was already a state certified law enforcement officer, he said all the training he got on trucks was a one week class on inspections, and one week on log books, weights and measures.
He got rather embarrassed, when he admitted to never having ridden in a truck, and said he would cut me some slack next time he stopped me.
The officers in my area are generally very good to work with, but I sure believe they should at least know what we see when we drive.

 

Peoples ignorance never ceases to amaze me. Once at a party, a young girl in her 20's came up to me, because she overheard me talking about trucks, and asked, "So what do you guy's do with those shiny, chrome trucks, just drive around"? True story.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4020992]Peoples ignorance never ceases to amaze me. Once at a party, a young girl in her 20's came up to me, because she overheard me talking about trucks, and asked, "So what do you guy's do with those shiny, chrome trucks, just drive around"? True story.[/QUOTE]

Totally get that semi. My own wife riding with me her first "vacation" trip (that one is a thread to itself LOL) spent the trip bored outta her skull, then going OH GOD, OH GOD, (booking through the deer trail roads in the mountains of eastern KY and western WV. LMAO); "Honey, I need you to hush that or get in the bunk, cover your head and mutter silent prayers. This requires ABSOLUTE concentration. I totally got this but I need to concentrate Dear. Kinda hard with you "Oh s#!+ting" every few minutes. Wanna fulfill that fear? Keep it up." Four wheelers did what they do; "Did you see THAT?" "Yup. Happens all day every day." I deliver retail in an OTR rig; "Baby STOP! You can't fit in there." "Yes I can. Watch and shush please. You know the whole concentration thing."

Blew her mind what we go through and she has been a trucker's wife for ten years come October. Nobody knows what we do and how we do it til they ride along for a bit.

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OK, I did purposely scare her running the moonshine and coal bucket roads fast and loose as I knew I could. Hey, I thought that Texas country girl's hair looked really good standing on end. Little '80s retro thing outta a page boy cut. Ooops. My bad. LOL.

BAD AMINAL!!! No treat for you!