Should I feel guilty for calling police?

With all the time you spent observing that other driver's rig on the other side of the interstate, who was watching your mirrors and the road in front of you?

 

So he has TWO flat tires side by side??
Running Interstste speed?
Oblivious to anything or anyone around him?? (You tried but failed to get his attention)

After reading some of the responses to your guestion I'm assured throttle jockies are alive and well, more understanding as to why we are covered up with regulations!
In my opinion, you did the proper thing! Be safe out there.

 

About a week ago, I had a recap on my trailer come apart but never went flat. I didn't notice it start to lose any tread and nobody said a thing on the radio. I didn't find out until the MO. DOT pulled me over to kindly give me a roadside inspection because of it. Well I didn't get to a fine because it wasn't losing air but I did get an OOS until I replaced it. I wish someone would of let me know so I could of avoided the whole deal....you did the right thing.

 

That is the thing no one is understanding, the limb was on the roof in such a way that it would be difficult to see from the ground!

I don't know about any of you, but I generally don't include climbing up to check the top of my roof as part of my pretrip!

And without doing exactly that, it would have been unlikely to see.

As to him already knowing about it, then why had he not reached up and pulled it off already? It wasn't going to be difficult to remove once it was seen.

Also, where he was meant he had already been driving with it on for many miles of pretty straight and smooth freeway, so if he did know it was there and had not yet removed it, then he deserved whatever happened for endangering everyone.

In any case, there was a real life safety hazard that I witnessed, and I responded to it in the best way I had available.

If you are more concerned about interrupted sleep or inspections or not being bothered by others than about life safety, than I hope you leave the trucking business before you get someone killed.

 

Lol!
You just don't quit do you....

Have you ever heard of "scanning"?
You know, check gauges, check mirrors, check speed, check windshield, check windows, rinse, lather, repeat?

Well, when you are going slow up a grade with no traffic around you, and a steady speed well below the speed limit, yes, you can scan then inspect, then scan again.

The point anyway wasn't that I stared unbroken for an extended period of time, but that I was able to see the truck for a while, and like time-lapse, there was no one around the truck.

The strong reactions to this really make me wonder if the people attacking me have things to hide, and hope no one notices their safety issues...

 

When I drove I never check it as I was walking around. Luckily nothing happened and now I will remember.

 

You know how I avoid "getting someone killed?" By doing my job and tending to my business, not everyone else's.

Because I do my job, I do not wish to have my sleep interrupted, or inspections, or be bothered by others. Nor do I have any interest in bothering other drivers.

Why is it so hard to just leave people the #### alone?

 

And if I see that you made a human mistake, and there is a hazard you have not corrected, you would rather have me ignore it and mind my own business, rather than pointing it out?

Or are you so ####y that you never make mistakes that you would rather eat the consequences, no matter the cost to you or others?

If I had discovered I had a limb riding on my roof, the very FIRST THING I would do is get it off before anybody saw it!
Especially parked so far down the freeway from where I would have picked it up...

So I can be pretty sure he didn't know it was there, OR maybe it was @alghazi 'so truck, and he was just hoping it would fall off as he drove so he didn't have to be bothered with it! Lol

 

Driving my personal 4wheeler I came up behind a county dump truck the other day on a 3-lane state highway. Left rear outer tire was completely flat and beginning to tear apart, driver appears to be having a difficult time controller the thing (or maybe he was drunk, idk). There was a police cruiser approaching from behind, maybe 1/2 mile back. I shot up next to the guy, rolled my passenger window down and tried to give him a heads up about his tire and the cop.

Soon as I lean over and look at him he's mouthing the words "I know, I know...". I give him a thumbs-up and accelerate up to highway speed. Poor SOB is about to get it.

I was wrong. Cop ignored the squirrely dump with the flat about to come off into traffic and instead glued himself to my bumper.

 

You know everything about this driver don't you?