Heads Up: Bridge Law Enforcement

The companies are trying to get "One more bill" per load. Our company has this in the warehouse where we get loaded They don't have to scale this crap & try to stay legal. Then when you get hit it's your fault. They need to start abiding by the rules 1st !!

 

Thanks; I'll dig our out. We don't use it anymore since we only run from terminal to terminal & the same run every week

 

Sounds like the "training companies" don't teach trip planning much anymore, at least with the mcnally trucker's atlas. I get drivers asking me sometimes why that little GPS box stuck on their windshield keeps guiding them down the wrong street, or why they saw what looks like a good road on MapQuest/Google/yahoo/maps-up-the-yingyang-dot-com/etc, resulted in them getting stopped by the cops or stuck in front of a low bridge. If you pick one of those mcnally truck atlases up, look through the front of it, and you will notice there is a guide and charts for length, bridge laws, axle settings for each state, phone numbers for the state patrol and DOT agencies. READ IT AND STUDY IT!! DO NOT, AND I REPEAT, DO NOT PUT COMPLETE TRUST IN AN INTERNET MAP SITE OR THAT GPS, REGARDLESS WHETHER ITS A TRUCKER'S GPS OR NOT!! If you are not sure of a route or how to get into a customer, call and get directions and call state or local police, or that state and/or county highway dept. I started my driving career using the atlas and those phone contacts as i was trained to do way back when(and that was with a top-notch driving school), and i still primarily use that atlas to check my routing. I do use a Google maps for a quick reference for distance between locations, and my truck came with a general-use GPS, but i don't trust it. Taking a few minutes to double-check the truck routes and state regs saves a lot of pain later. Just telling the cops "my gps made me do it" or "my dispatcher told me to go this way and get going and didn't leave me no time to look at a map" wont cut it if you get in a jam. YOU are the one driving the truck, not the gps or your dispatcher.

 

Man you hit it out of the ballpark on this one. We've hired a couple newbs lately and trip planning just doesn't even come into play for them anymore. It's all gps this gps that and they can't figure out why they end up missing their address. When I started I was taught that Motor Carrier Atlas was the truckers Bible. It never let me down.

 

Ok, so i got caught in Haywood County Tenneessee. So any idea of a ranged fine? I was measured at 44'.

 

Yes,Tennessee enforces the length/bridge law at 41. feet
im surprised a 15year driver wouldn't know that?

 

Well, he didn't say he didn't know... He says he got caught.

 

ok I am at 45ft but legal, wanna guess how?

 

You're not in Tennessee?

 

that's a good answer one but not the right one.