Going Over the Road with Knight

I got a fix it ticket for a cracked windshield on I-10 @ the Banning scale. Got if fixed, went back to California and had the fix it ticket signed by an officer at the I-8 port of entry. I mailed the ticket in and withing two months I was receiving threatening letters from the CHP about license suspension for my "flagrant disregard for the law." I made copies and got it all straightened out with the help of the company I was driving for at the time but seriously, California is a true PIA!

 

One of CA's best revenue-generating 'natural' resources are out-of-state truckers!

Just one reason of many why this retired western-regional trucker who lived on the roads in CA for many years will NEVER go back---even to visit!! And why if heading west & north of L.A. from AZ always bailed at Desert Center and took the back roads thru the Mojave to miss 2 scales.

 

And an important revenue stream for California. When you're that big and that broke and you already tax everything that moves - and some that don't - it comes down to commercial vehicle citations for money.

 

Lay on the air horn. I'd have no problems letting the truck stop personnel know someone is costing them a #### pile of money by taking a break in the fuel lane. And there are other spaces available? Jesus....

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Never came across that situation, but the one that happened several times that ticked me off was when I came into a truck stop "at a decent hour' so as to get an early start (esp if rolling into a big city the next morning to miss rush hour) and some a-hole pulls in late around 2 AM and blocks me in due to full parking, and then I have to first knock on his window, then bang on his door (knowing that he is purposely ignoring my efforts) and finally make a ruckus yelling etc. to get him to open up---and then he acts like "I'm" the problem!!!