OOS Order

No, it would not. Insurance companies don't cover illegal operations. Both commercial and personal.

Let your registration lapse on your personal vehicle and your insurance becomes void as well.

It's standard boilerplate in the legal agreement. Read it, all of it. Carefully and watching out for weasel wording.

 

There's a difference between expired registration and revoked. (This outfit's authority has been revoked.) Here's from carinsurance.com http://www.carinsurance.com/kb/does-expired-registration-void-policy.aspx

Most likely with revoked authority, insurance now null and void.

Dunno. Inquiring minds--

We know insurance name, for giggles could call them up on Monday...

... find out if revoked authority voids insurance.

 

The reason I brought this up was because of a chat I had with my personal car insurance agent a while back. I asked him if insurance would cover someone if they hit and hurt someone else while they were drunk. Insurance will not cover you if you are drunk behind the wheel. You would loose everything you own. However, if you got in your car, drove it as fast as it will go, then hit and hurt someone, that, you are covered for. Makes no sense, really ... at what degree of breaking the law does insurance not cover someone? If you were doing 21 in a 20 school zone and run over a child's toes would your insurance not cover you for that?

In my mind, if you have no insurance, or are doing something you are not covered for in the event you cost someone else injury or property damage, then you have zero business being on the road.

 

If you have only liability, that's for the OTHER party's damage, not yours, anyway. That stays in effect even if you're DUI/DWI according to autoinsurance.org http://www.autoinsurance.org/will-auto-insurance-pay-for-a-car-accident-while-dui-or-dwi/

Always assumed that insurance you have on yourself remains valid unless you intentionally drive off the road into a tree with no skid marks and leave a note.

 

I thought that there was a requirement to have a process agent with an authority?

 

It is quite simple, you want your own numbers you play with the same rules as the big boys, no excuses. If the truck was working he was violating a OOS which can cost $2500 a day.

Turn him in, he ain't making any money any way, probably running for some cut rate broker, who should get nailed for using a non legal carrier.

 

Probably won't matter unless driver 1) goes through a scale overweight, or 2) has some really obvious equipment issue, or 3) has some other driving violation/mishap, or 4) gets very, very unlucky.

We have the DOT's and the State Patrols way, way outnumbered.

Balakov did right thing by informing the truck. It's up to them now, whether to get rid of load ASAP if truck is loaded. Outfit hasn't had a wreck... yet. My bet is if they answer phone on Monday will have a long litany of how O/O's they hired screwed them or drivers they hired screwed them.

A while back called a small outfit, asked for DOT number, ran it and was really, really bad. Told him. He went into long tirade about drivers. Sorry, guy, with that CSA, couldn't consider working for you no matter how bad you think your drivers did you. He was still ranting on when I rang off...

 

So who died and left all you do gooders in charge...let the worthless cops figure it out....god help us all

 

Oh, yeah. If this truck came in my scale, it would not be leaving.

At least until he received an inspection, some possible citations, and was able to lease on to a carrier with current authority.