Level 2 while driving as personal conveyance

I'd log it as off duty and flag it. What do you have to do worthy of logging it as working? You were off duty, and just driving around. So if you had 30 minutes left until your restart/break was up, your gonna lose that because they bothered you while you were off duty. What we need to know is, can they inspect you while you aren't working. Because if not, then they are making you log it, and messing up your break.

 

actually snowwy, i think by the letter of the law, you are correct

i dont understand how an officer can conduct an inspection if you are off-duty

but he can inspect the truck, because DOT can inspect that equipment anywhere, they can come to your yard or anywhere else and inspect the equipment

so maybe its not falsifying because he didnt ask for the driver's logs, he only asked for the paperwork to the truck (and i guess the signals and lights)

if you were in your company yard and DOT came in and wanted to check some of the trucks, where a secretary or any warm blooded person would follow him out to the yard and press the brakes, turn on the lights and check the paperwork, you wouldnt have to log it, because it was not an inspection of YOU but of the truck

i dont know, where is autocar?

 

yep genius. just like i said, NOTHING to inspect. he's OFF duty, with no trailer.

come down to earth. and think about it. REALISTICALLY.

 

From El Paso to Dallas I only saw 2 DPS trucks both had stops already. Ran LA to Dallas and back tuesday and Wednesday this week for UPS. Monday early evening Arizona DPS had the east bound rest area jam packed with pickups and officers setting up a inspection blitz. Made Phoenix just in time for morning rush hour. El Paso was fun too. Really love the 75 and 80 mph speed limits after a long time runnng regional ca... Great week, cleaned the carbon out of the Peterbilt...

 

All the inspections I have been thru have been more about the equipment not the load or paperwork, logbooks they normally have just glanced at .

 

I do overseas work. So they wanted my Bol all 3 times. They even took out the scales when I had 12k in my container. I told them there's no way I'm overweight. My buddy got the same thing but was empty and tried to scale him too.

 

yep, pulling a flatbed defentily can have some advantages.

no officer i am not overweight.

 

Funny how people see things differently over a matter of 4 weeks.

 

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