Just some of the stupid things I see

i guess some people are just slow learners---if he cant afford triangles or an fire extinguisher---i think he has more to worry about than 4 sets of tickets--they are just icing on the cake of screw up

 

I knew many drivers like your talking about... heck we had some regular drivers that would even call us when they were heavy or had serious safety issues. Same thing with the "small" trucks crossing the state line ,no logs,no safety equipment etc, mostly seafood haulers. And we also had our share of "steering wheel holders" too , but they were rare.

 

My company was like that to a point when I was working as a mixer driver.
The weight limits they allow on a tandom mixer in NY, even with permanent permits are just way too low.
The mixer has a 10 yard drum. And the truck I drove was a belt truck, so had a conveyor belt system to place concrete a distance from the truck.
With NY's weight limits I could legally only haul 5 yards of concrete on that truck, or half a load.
So if we ran all of out trucks at legal limits at all times we would need twice as many trucks to do the same job.

Lucky for us they did not scale us often. One reason is that the load had a very short shelf life. If you hold that truck up for 30 min, many times you would loose the load. Every time if it was a state load.
I was the one pulled in a few years ago. They got me for overweight axle, overweight gross, and overweigh registration.
Owner of the company insisted I went to court with him. I talked the judge down. (I had met her before).
They threw out 2 of the tickets and did the 3rd for less than the state minimum. So we paid like 385.
The total of all tickets would have been over 10k

 

Mr Dieselbear,

Are we too busy to check in ??

Curious as to how they're biting this week !!!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

 

With safety check week in progress, I guess everyone out there is keeping it on the straight and narrow, or staying off the highways. There'll be plenty of idiots coming out of the woodwork once ''sweep week" is over.

 

Probably been camping.

Most of you guys can't on the good holiday weekends.