Just some of the stupid things I see

Of COURSE it is someone else's problem. HE could not do anything wrong, just ask him. I ran into a hell of a lot of people like that in my LE career. Prisons are full of them.

 

Welcome to the victim mentality mindset. No one is responsible for anything that they do.

 

IMO He's responsable for the log book and maybe the lights. I only say maybe because believe it or not (I know common sense goes out the window when it comes to most law enforcement, nothing personal to you just been my experience with some) lights do stop working out of bad luck. I know a guy on here said one of his bright headlights went out as he was being inspected by a DOT officer (inspector saw it burn out) and he still got the ticket. That's why I say common sense seems to not be a requirement for employment in some states.

As far as the IFTA, I can't see how that's the drivers fault. To me it's the same as insurance, how many company drivers verify the truck they're driving has current insurance and the fuel taxes are paid before they leave?

As far as the overweight goes IMO it's trivial. I haul overweight loads daily, funny how 80,000 # is the max unless I pay the state for a piece of paper then it's ok to go to 120,000 on the same truck. And as far as someone said he was supposed to "check the weight" I ask how was he supposed to do that? Let me guess, drive to a set of scales? "I think I may be overweight, I'd better drive it 20+ miles to a set of scales to check"

I'm not really defending the guy, he's probably a tool and so was the company he works for and deserves to be out of business. But it's not always as cut and dry as some DOT officers like to make it.

Also states like Ohio can suspend your license and they don't have to tell you, you don't find out until your pulled over.

 

Call me crazy but if there's no current IFTA on the truck and no current insurance verification form in the permit book..... why would I want to drive that truck?? IFTA sticker is easy to spot and you should know when insurance is do, when you 1st join a comapny and get the permit book.

 

The driver is the one responsible. His job is to inspect the truck. If things are not right, he has the option to refuse to drive the thing.

 

In my limited years of experience, I have learned to tell the dfference between 80K and 112K. If any question as to weight, yes, drive to a scale.

IFTA? Well, if the driver checks the permits, it's fairly easy to tell whether it's current, unless it's been forged. And what about the stickers we are all required to have? Are you kidding?

Unbelievable.

It's always someone else's fault.

 

I think I saw his nephew on Judge Mathis today. Kid buys a motorcycle from a woman, makes one or two payments, then gets jailed for DUI following a police chase. He's in the klink for three months, during which time the bike is sold at auction. He feels since he "no longer owns the bike, he is no longer responsible for the payments to the seller".

Clowns.

(Yes, I watched JM today....been house-bound and ya HAVE TO get up from the computer once in a while!)

 

Company driver here, when I get into a different truck I walk the book to "the man", I don't even know his name, I don't care to know it. I'll hand him the book and ask if it is all good, even though I have looked through it. And I'll ask questions too, isn't that what we all do?

Last time I looked that CDL had my name on it.

 

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