Pre-pass & drivewyze

If you have your own authority you can look at what is called your ISS score. It stands for Inspection Selection System. It's a scale from 1 to 100 with 100 being the worst. As time goes by your score creeps up. When it reaches 66 inspection is suggested. When you get a clean inspection it goes down. When you first start out your score is 100.

If you know your truck is in good shape and you have a good standing with your home state scale you can pull in anytime and ask for an inspection. If you ask they cannot turn you down. You can also ask for a non recourse inspection. That means they will flag everything wrong, let you leave and get it fixed and come back for a clean writeup. That's not official but I've done it twice in my home state.

 

Haven't heard of the non-recourse inspection -- I may have to try it sometime. I need another inspection to get a safety rating, but my sticker is still current so it probably won't happen on its own anytime soon...

 

######## Ive known plenty of people who got turned down when they asked for a inspection.


Please post a link to back up your claim.

 

When you post fiction as fact you lose your credibility on the forum, and posting Truck stop BS just confuses people who are actually trying to learn.

Please actually know what your talking about before posting truck stop fiction.

 

Talked to the guys at "Bestpass" today at MATS. I'd probably go that route (and probably still will). Combines prepass with ezpass, sunpass, fastrak, ks tag, the ontario ETR, and will add texas & ok this year...

Their new transponder was much smaller too -- roughly the size of a business card.

 

From thread... http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...perator/141851-voluntary-dot-inspections.html

 

Nobody said they wont sometimes, but its not the law that they have to if asked.

Skateboard was asked for a link to that law, so far nothing.

 

Just go to your home state scale and ask if they will do a non recourse inspection. There's one scale in my home state NH that does CDL driving tests and also trains new DOT officers on inspections. They had me come back on a certain day and time and a newbie did it. If you have your own authority you can ask the officer who did your compliance review to do it also.

I was in Maine and I was pulled in. He just asked if my log book was up to date and I said yes. He didn't ask to see it. I asked him for an inspection and he did it. I also asked for one in Vermont at an off road fuel check station. He said no. I said, what if I told you that you have your mothers thighs! He laughed and said ok.

Your much better off to get your ISS score as low as possible in a friendly environment. That's the number that gets you a red light and inspection.

I delivered once in Vermont and stayed at the customer and went to bed. I headed home to NH around 2am. I got pulled over by DOT. He said he was going to do a road side inspection. He walked around my truck and knocked on my passenger side door and got in. He said I passed. I was like WTF???? Next thing I know he's telling me he's going to take the buyout and get his own authority. I made coffee and he sat there for at least a few hours. I got my laptop out and he looked at my spreedsheet on income, maintenance and everything else. We stayed in touch for a few months. He didn't take the buyout because an opening came up in the high school for the resource officer.

Ya know....These guys aren't dicks. My experience is if you ask for help they help.

 

Of course!