Stay Away Fm CO state when driving New truck home

Rules are rules. they are there for a reason. A lesson learned. call the dot first in the states you are to pass thru. if possible have them fax, email or give you a chapter, verse on the pass thru fees. Just an idea.

 

Never Said it was okay to tell sexist or racist jokes, and especially in front of someone who may be offended. I just wanted to know where the racist remark was. I don't know if he is black, white, Chinese Mexican or anything else and I saw nothing about race in any comment. Not every disagreement is about race.

 

I said off color not racist.

We have a difficult relationship with law enforcement and this kind of interaction does not help.

Speaking as someone who has to stop at every scale I cross, I do not need to be painted with the same just another "rude, #######" brush.

That is what I take offense to, act like professional since this is the profession chosen.

 

Lets leave sexist and political comments off the forum, please.

I expect the two prior edits of inappropriate content to be quite sufficient.

 

The guy doesn't want to take 70 bucks and burn it and tells off color jokes and it's the worst examples of our industry? Perhaps those things may offend you, if so just move away from the guy. For now, this is still America. I say you are the worst example for the "offended" class in today's society.

 

apparently some find the intrusion of DOT and scales a problem
some seem to be inspected often
myself i have had one level one in 4 years
must have an honest face

 

So after all that, you still did not have any consequence for your attempt to sneak through Colorado without a hunter permit and fuel, yet you're still unhappy enough to trash them on here? Brilliant. This is for you, from all of us that do take the time and spend the bucks to be compliant and not be hassled by the man. Or, the woman, in your case.

Probably not. If Texas had caught you, they would have put you out of service on the spot, and not been talked out of it.

He's gonna be a lunch counter celebrity. He can eat there every meal with the money he saves not paying for permits and fuel taxes.

 

I don't write, or always agree with the tax code. Maybe you missed it, but I didn't say anywhere that I like paying for fees and taxes. I don't. It is what it is. Some people, like you apparently, like to see what they can get away with. Wing it, and hope you don't get caught. That's ok. Just not usually the best idea when it's you and your business at stake. I do know there's a phone number for each state in the atlas, to call and ask before driving through and getting in trouble. OOS at a scale house is the wrong place to be trying to fix things that might require banking or other services to satisfy.

Glad to hear you like Texas. My trucks are there a lot, and I don't have any particular issues with them. In fact, I passed a Level 2 in my truck last week at the Queen City coop. I say they won't be talked out of an OOS issue from my son getting stopped for a random about two years ago. No violations on the inspection. However, he had an in-state load and the officer was jamming him up because his computer in the car was somehow offline and couldn't verify our Texas authority. I went to the DMV site, saved the documents to pdf, and emailed them to my son. He printed them out on his truck, handed them over, and was on his way. Without that, he would have been there on the side of the road a lot longer.

FYI - the officer that will do your inspection in Texas will be working for the Texas DMV. The state FMCSA rep is a good resource if you need help reading the rulebook, but you might get more certain advice about state permits needed from the state law enforcement agency, not the federal rule making agency. Even if the rule makers happen to work in an office in that state.

There's no accounting for common sense. You really missed the mark with your political slur. It's usually lefties that move about with a sense of entitlement (rules are for other people) and get offended when big government picks their pocket instead of someone else's. Pot, meet kettle.