No More California Trucking!

I got pulled over in my pickup out here. I am stationed out here and was pulled over getting off I-10 going west at miliken in Ontario. Cop was sitting on the I-15 to I-10 onramp. Told me "I could not tell if your wife had her seatbelt on". He wrote her a ticket for not wearing a seat belt even though he was uncertain if she was wearing her seatbelt which she was and we always do. He also told me that the seatbelt ticket money goes to the state not to the city of ontario. What does that tell you? It tells me we are broke so we need to start pulling people over and making stuff up and writing tickets.

 

you can fight that one and win. if he told you he couldn't tell and she had it on when he walked up its a done deal. Ca. is a pain I agree but I grew up there have zero points no tickets no accidents and I have a lot of miles there its just a pain to run 55 and many people get complacent and forget. its easy to do and that draws attention

 

California does not exist on my maps or my hubby's maps. Neither does anything east of Ohio.

 

Yes there is, our licence plates.

 

I believe that story. I used to run into California all the time and there were a few occasions at the Dunsmuir grade scale where they were pulling over every Canadian truck for a logbook check and inspection. One time I pulled over and there was a lineup of all of us waiting in the shack, and not 1 available inch to park in behind the shack....all canadian trucks. I waited 20 minutes until it was my turn for the logbook check. The lady working there took 2 random pages (grabbed one page, flipped ahead several pages and grabbed another page) from my logbook and checked them out, and then came back and said she was shutting me down for an hours of service violation. I asked her why and she said "how can you go from being in this state one day and then this other state the next?". I reminded her that she grabbed 2 non-sequential pages out of my logbook and pointed to the dates at the top of the pages. then she accused me of handing her the wrong pages like I was the dummy. She then said "just for trying to pull a fast one, go to the bay for an inspection". I didn't think that Dunsmuir grade was that high above sea level for her brain to be lacking oxygen that badly. I made sure my truck was always top notch so I left that place clean but it was still a real pain. The guy who did the inspection on my truck was the guy who has the big mustache. He was a great guy at least so there were no problems there.

Another time through the Dunsmuir scale my back axle showed it fluctuating between 39,980 and 40,000 lbs (spread axle flatbed). I was hauling some grape stakes that absorbed water and gained some weight during my travel. They made me go around and re-scale 3 times......every time I went over I very carefully rolled to a stop without causing it to bounce above 40,000. That same airhead lady was working it hard that day and I got another inspection....passed with flying colors again but they were sure looking for something!

 

They're government workers......What do you expect?