Is there a safety blitz going on with DOT??

Every day is a blitz. You just need to find where there hiding that day.

 

The NB Georgia scale on 85 was inspecting drivers on the platform scale!

 

Georgia has been doing that more often than ever.
I hope the southbound scale never gets opened back up but you know it will one day..

The northbound 85 SC scale red lights me every time I cross them empty. The loaded trucks get the bypass...wtf!

 

NCMICKEY, I have seen lots of cops at NC-GA everytime I go down that way. Worst day has been Tuesday. I just cruise along at 5 over and laugh at the NJ-NY and MD idiots. Pa drivers are pretty bad too.

 

I got pulled at a little podunk scale on US 129 in rural N. Central FL the other day. One of those scales where 99% of the time there's nothing but tumbleweeds...The little trailer house is so crummy they actually sit in their cars/SUVs with a remote scale readout on the rare occasions that they are there. Anyway, I was pulling an OS/OW load that grossed just a tick under 137k, so had my dropaxle down. With that configuration, I have a blanket permit good for 140k. Well, the nice officer had just gotten lunch and was just about to take a hunk out of his triple burger when I pulled alongside him on the scale. He looked at his readout, then asks me (thru his and my window) how much my permit is good for. So I replied 140k; he says "Noooo, how much does it say on the permit!"
So I replied real slow and over annunciating my words...."I said my permit is for up to 140,000 pounds, sir. You see, I'm allowed the extra weight with this permit when I have seven axles on the ground...(as I reached out and pointed out my drop axle...LOL) {*side note*I have 3 permits- 1 for 6 axles, 1 for 7 axles, and 1 for when I have my stinger axle hooked up for 8 total}
He looked out at it, then gave me a half-assed nod to go while grabbing his burger again to start mowing into it....


Gosh, I felt terrible having disturbed his tasty meal......Jackwad!

 

must be. The extortion squads were out today hassling people hard on I-80 in PA and I-71 just north of Columbus. Way more activity than usual.

 

Most of them are old and junky looking at this point so probably look like ripe targets for defective equipment tickets. Just my guess.

 

Can't remember the last time I saw a Columbia with a fully painted cab extender...

 

haha. This Crapcadia im driving has the driver side one torn clean off.

 

Saw the Georgia DOT giving a Hummer limo a level 1.