Washington and Oregon blitz! How often does this type of thing happen?

good mourning : now i do not think this is a wave of the future although there safty inpections are a pain in the a-- both oegon and washingotn but you have to consider a couple of things and you will understand why.

first consider the country your running in they have some of the worst in the country there terain is rough with high mountains and steep grades it's not like running a southern interstate big difference and a lot of drivers dont no how to come down a steep mountain grade with a heavy load they dont teach that in truck driving school it is extreamly dangerous you can burn up a set of breaks in a heart beat and when you do some body usally dies you can not stop a loaded truck with the breaks on fire.

that is why there inpections are so strict and they do them all the time and most companys will send a driver out there with no regard for the driver or his expeirence and more then a few ever make it back.

when your running down a 6% grade and you find yourself in 10 th gear with 80.000 lbs strapped to your but your already in troubel and not easy to recover from.

there also big on driver safty for obvious reasons as for all log books i dont agree with them but they do and when in rome you have to do what the romans do or else.that is pretty much the law of the land.

here is a few states that pretty much do the same thing and pretty much for the same reasons , california, oregon, washigton,idaho,montana,wyoming,south dakota, north dakota,these are the worst states to run in as far as terain is concearned and yes there are a few others farther south like west virgina, you have to no what your doing when your running mountais and steep grades those that dont can get into toubel real quick. and it is troubel you cant recover from.

i cant stress enough no what your doing beore you try to run that type of running your life depends on it .

but that is why they do those inspections there are just to many out here today that do not have the expeirence but try to do it anyway, NOT A GOOD THING.

and im not blaming truck driving schools totaly, how can they teach you to come off a mountain if they dont have a mountain in the parking lot and few even no what a mountain is .

BUT thats why they have these inspections to keep you from dying it's really no joke.

my best to all and stay safe. southernpride

 

Well said Southernpride and I might add....

This can't be the "wave of the future" when it's been going on for years.
Most of the western states have been doing these blitzes in one form or another for as long as I can remember.
With the increase in recent years of the number of trucks on the highway there has been an obvious but expected increase in concern and enforcement with regard to safety.

If you have your act together, You'll get through without incedent but if you're running out there on the edge...Good luck!

 

Years ago, a couple of western states were faxing drivers' logs ahead to the next port of entry. Drivers were caught using a different log book upon entering the next state.

 

if it gets away from uits to late!! in the b models w a quad and 173hp its slow going up and slow going down even out here in the east there not that long but there some steep ones

 

Interpretation:

 

Technology has changed a bit.

They caught some that I know in Oregon, by checking with Wyoming on the information when they entered the port in Cheyenne.

 

Oregon "crashes" the Prepass control (they use Norpass) and times off that, even though they don't bypass with it. Once I had a non-working prepass in my truck (turned off by prepass) hadn't made a noise in a month, had fallen off my window, I hit a scale in Oregon, and the little box started screaming and red lighted me. Since the scale had the big word out, I just kept on rolling.

And since I just had a level I done in California, who recorded that I didn't have a prepass in the truck (I didn't know they recorded that until they asked me) if Oregon DOT pulled me over I would have told them, I mean shown them the level I from California.

And I follow the signs in Oregon and don't care what Prepass tells me in that state anymore. If the scale is open, I roll it, not, I pass it. Not my fault my company doesn't huff Oregon DOT and pay the special Oregon bribe for the bypass plates.

 

I started in this business in 1972, running from PDX to SLC, hauling tandems for ONC.
They were doing those blitzes then.
From 1988 until last year, I had a private company truck and ran from SAN to SEA every week. Leave San Diego monday evening and get back from Seattle friday mid day.
I must have been checked an average of twice a month. Never found anything wrong, but I became first name buddies with some of those ODOT guys.
Especially there in Ashland.
These days, I'm sure they need the money.
Same ol thing, another day.