florida agricultural inspection

It's more of a random thing and what the person feel like doing. I guarantee if they would've asked what you had then they'd prob be going over your paper work and maybe even breaking a seal if you had one on

 

My theory is they already know what is coming into the state. If the system flags your truck as one that is unknown, then they would check.

Going into California Donner ag check one time they pull me to the side and said bring in BOL. My BOL is a stack of papers 1 inch thick. She shuffles thru them like an expert card dealer and finds the exact one she wanted. Turns out I had some lawn furniture on the trailer that was potentially outdoors in the state of Maryland within the last 6 months so there is a possible Gypsy Moth eggs problem.

She says the $fine goes to the driver for this. I say how was I supposed to know? Can I turn around and go back to Nevada? She says yes and I'm thinking it's a long way around the state but I know a way to get in around the next ag check if needs be. But we finally got it all straightened out with the proper paperwork faxed over from the shipper.

Had to give that quarantine paperwork to the customer, says California inspectors will be there soon to check it out, you guys better do what the paperwork says or face a firing squad with electric shock bullets with a rope hung around your neck

 

u get stopped they make a copyif the bol. Asked them what was up .he said they scanut ti the state ti make sure customer pays taxes on prduct. And thats pulling a flatbed, all about money

 

Every once in a while they set up the x-ray machine and x-ray trailers. I saw them going thru one of those tarp side car haulers one time. (He was transporting regular cars for private citizens not dealership deliveries). I've been x-rayed, had my seal popped load inspected on a Walmart delivery, and had my paperwork examined. (Not while I was at the same carrier), but mostly I get the wave, or a polite 'whatcha haulin' then the wave. We refer to them as cabbage cops. But if a u-haul or a private horse trailer blows by them, they launch out of there like they were shot off an aircraft carrier.

 

Sure enough,last time I went to Florida I was on I-75 pulling bottled water out of the Nestle plant in Lee. No sooner I pulled into the agricultural station one of the officers sitting in his Dodge Charger took off like a pop bottle rocket after a pickup truck with a horse trailer that blew past the agricultural station. From the time I pulled in,got cleared and back on the highway to the time I past said truck with horse trailer with the agricultural officer pulled over on the shoulder behind him less than a minute and a half elapsed. Usually they just ask what you're hauling and they don't bat an eye on bottled water,cardboard,etc. and let you roll on.

 

They also check for dyed fuel occasionally.

 

Rookie here. I picked up a load south of the jasper station and I was headed north. No CAT scales anywhere nearby and tried to bypass the weigh station on i 75. Went north on rt 41 and went over the agricultural inspection there (it's not on the trucker path app). I got interrogated hard and had to open my doors since "I should have been on the interstate" I ultimately got let go and when I was finally weighed at the loves I was 2000lbs over on the trailer tandems.

There are agricultural stations on the side roads and they are much more stringent than the one on the interstates

 

^Yes,there are. And for good reason-they know some drivers will try to bypass the scales on I-75. There's a Pilot truck stop on I-75 at Exit 460 in Jasper-could've stopped there to scale out(CAT Scale available).