Got stopped today. Terrible DOT Officers.

Exactly, and at the same time look what happens to the quality of drivers, who in there right mind would deal with them crooks on a day to day basis if they could qualify for a better job/work environment! You leave the house at 3:30 AM, then home by 5:00 PM to work on the truck till dark. And these two DOT guys WILL take your lunch money every chance they get, lol.

Don't get me wrong, there are two other DOT guys working Northern Idaho that are great, and do there best to help us to be safer, and more informed drivers!

 

Up where I grew up it seemed we would get the new guys with the big egos. Fortunately back in the hay day about every 4th truck on the road was a logging truck and the DOT was more concerned about the new Canadians as the first group of them to get into trucking hardly did anything legal and their trucks were junk. Nowadays they aren't much of a problem since they learned how trucking works over here.

 

Around here, 3 out of 5 trucks are log trucks during the summer, and probably 1 out of 5 in the dead of winter. We definitely got the guys with big egos, and unfortunately these days they are the only ones willing to deal with it. There are a few darned good lady drivers, and they don’t look nothing like some of there freight haulin counterparts, lol, pure eye candy!

 

You could always try handing over an envelope full of $50 bills after all their only after a Christmas bonus

 

Well ya know if we'd stick together and strike many some of this nonsense would go away...but neither is ever gonna happen.

 

Sure DOT is a pain but... Who else is gonna keep the junk off the road?? Not to mention the idiots that do cause wrecks. I've heard a few guys complain that the trucking industry ought to be allowed to police itself. Well, this industry has already proven it can't. (Swift, CR England, the Chicago 1099 outfits, etc)

 

so we aren't suppose to really use the horn yet get in trouble for not having it correctly but I know you should have one but just sayin

 

safety didn't try and ding you with anything