No food! No water or bathroom and expected to stay in truck

Interesting thread, very informative. I thank you and all the others that document the ups and downs of the industry, good and bad.

Be safe out there and keep the info coming.

 

Hey bluebonn... bad place to have a logbook snafu. OR and WA are all over that sort of stuff. Make sure your times are accurate - they log when you pass the weigh stations, then pull you in down the line and check you on it.

 

Oregon will check Prepass against other states as well. Even though they do not use
Prepass. They're on Norpass. But you get pinged by their scales even if you're on Prepass.

 

Lifted from Norpass website:

Who sees the information collected at the weigh station and how is it used?

NORPASS is designed to improve the efficiency and safety of motor carrier operations, not to act as a data collection and distribution system. NORPASS member states agree to use the information collected by NORPASS solely for the purpose of determining each truck's bypass status.

That sounds pretty harmless but if you read into it, it's really invasive. They can clock you from one Norpass site to the next and determine your speed.
There plan is really attractive, just a one time fee of $45 for the transponder, that's it! They figure you will save $8.68 per bypass. But if you were clocked at 56 miles per hour in Oregon, it would take an awful lot of those bypasses to break even on the ticket.

 

Scottie, you get it. But Oregon also tracks Prepass even though it does not use it.

 

Just wait another couple of years when its all electronic logs.

 

Hubby did that during the time change - totally frustrating!! Missed it by <__> this much!!

 

No worries... the computer takes care of all of those pesky little details... 33 vs 34 hours, time changes. DOT bears don't want to even mess with dealing with a log book violation - its a free pass at the scales. All you have to do is manage your hours.

 

I got stopped for a level 3 on I-45 about 20 miles south of Dallas last night. He briefly checked D/L and wants and such, but spent nearly 30 minutes going over my logs. I think he was disappointed that he couldn't find any violations.