Ignorant Officer?

I could of gotten a ticket with for 5 different things the other day it was in my personal car.

#1 I appereantly screeched my tires going around a corner.

#2 Was accused of doing 70 mph in a 30 mph.

#3 Was accused of running 3 different stop signs.

# 4 Was not wearing my seatbely but slipped it on before I think he say that is was not on.

#5 Was not wearing my Glasses as required on my license.

I parked at work and then took off to get something seen this sherriff's car in the middle of the road with his lights on got in my car and took off turned the corner and by that time he was at the corner still with his lights going he made another u turn to come after me. I was on a busy road so I rolled down my window and motioned that I would pull over in a minute then I cross the highway and pull into a shopping center.

He walked up with a bad additude and asked do you know why I pulled you over I answerd back well no sir I do not.

He asked were would you like me to start I said well sir from the begining I guess.

He started by saying well at x street and x ave you was turning and squelled your tires I answered I sorry sir I did not hear them spin out.

Then he said well you went through a neighborhood at 70 mph I said I though I was going the speed limit.

He went on to say I assume that you blew all of the stop signs as I could not catch up with you untill you were parked and I had passed you. I told hom no sir I stopped at all of the stop signs.

He did not mention the seat belt or my eye glasses.

He went back and ran my info came back and told me next time he catches me doing anything wrong he will write my ##* up.

He could only of writen me up for the tire spinning that he thought he heard not for none of the other stuff because he did not have me on radar or did not see me run the stop signs.
I did not run any stop signs I am not that dumb I may have been driving a little fast but he had no evedince of it.

I also think my buddy at the sheriff's office may have helped me out by either showing up on scene or talking to him on the radio and telling him to cutt me loose he is one of the higher up's there.

But in any case I was being nice to the guy that pulled me over by answering yes sir no sir or officer.

I did not yell or have an additute at him for doing his job and holding me up. So with a good additude you can get warnings.


I have in the past chewed an officers butt for having an additude with me before I have even cursed an officer out but I only do that if it extreme that he is realy disrespecting me.

 

Sounds like he was a donut or two shy of a load or maybe his wife jumped his a-z-z that morning and you were the "first in line".

 

I was a LE officer (totally different form the DMV or DOT guys) and we were taught that we needed to make a decision before we even talked to a person about if we were going to write a citation or not. But, from time to time, a person would talk themselves into a citation (which may have been their attitude). Sometimes the attitude would be in line with "delaying and resisting", which was normally a higher or additional charge, and sometimes "assault on an officer", since words can be considered assault. At that point you "could" be cuffed. Please remember that these folks are just doing their job and have bosses to answer to just like you and me. You may not have to be polite, but it certaintly wouldn't hurt. I personally wouldn't want someone to "kiss up" to me as a LE officer. But if I expect them to see me as a professional driver, I need to act like I am one.

 

This will not help Raafi but, as a Trooper and NASTI inpsector, I will as most of you know, base everything except OOS on attitude. I start all my encounters like I treat my family. Very kindly. The driver and I are merely conducting business. You must deliver your load, I must enforce laws and ensure safety. I do not ask to have my asas kissed, actually quite the opposite, if youre kissing my ### that means I look harder cuz you're hiding sumpin!

The only thing I do understand is that there are some ####### that wear my same badge. The have come straight from moms house and went thru the academy with no life experience, and feel the need to break peoples stones.

Doesn't matter what job you do or have come accross, there's always an ####### nearby doing it!

 

So true. Let's just try to respect one another and get on with life.

 

That is correct we both have a job to do. Here is the best one I have though I was headed into CA with a Century class with full fairings. This was right afetr SWIFT had ordered that west Coast fleet with the 19.5's to pull those ultra high cubes. Well I get pulled into Truckee for a Level one. The DOT officer igoes I do not care what your log looks like IF YOU CAN SHOW ME AN EASY WAY UNDER THESE CENTURY'S YOU GET A STICKER ON BOTH. I was like I am almost out of hours and I knew I had a bad brake on the trailer I was like OK I proceeded to show him how to remove the fairings of the truck. He lived up to his deal. I rolled out.

 

If you had a bad brake on the trailer why were pulling it then.
I refused to move a trailer with a missing mud flap. That would be a ticket for you not the company.

 

Called I was headed towards a terminal all that was wrong with it was a Shoe close to company min thickness and that was 3/8 of an inch not the DOT's 1/4 of an inch. Trailer was fine just the company wanted to replace the brakes before it had been reloaded but it was the only empty in the shippers yard and they loaded it instead of letting us pull it for repairs. That is what Iwas talking about. I was a mechanic Certified by Cat Cummions Detroit also Rockwell and Dana/Spicer and eaton Fuller so I could do the repairs if I had the parts on the side of the road.

 

I burned myself the other day in VT. Followed route instructions down a .. road I'm going to avoid in the future (VT 9)

Come around a corner and there's a mobile DOT set up. Swing in, not worried - I know the rig is tight, as is the trailer.

I forgot my logs. Twice a 15 minute error put me over my 11 AND 14. On top of that, the truck/trailer was 6 inches over length (I still can't find any reference to that road in my Rand McNalley, but it's there on the citation)

"Cop" an attitude? hardly
Kiss <ahem> and bend over backwards? Just about as likely.

I stayed polite,friendly, and professional. DOT looked at my logs back for 30 days (I gave them to him- he didn't ask)

Only cited me for the one 11/14, and put me OOS for 2 hours.

Could have been worser. When they stopped me, I was 20 minutes away from my destination - with 45 minutes left on the day's clock.

By the time the inspection was completed (They paused to inspect some other rigs coming through),my 45 minutes was gone - so I was parked there until midnight anyway. When done with the other trucks (and issuing citations to a few), he took the time to show me where I'd screwed up.

No complaints about them from me at all. That road.. that's another thing entirely. There's a stretch of about 200 meters that the DOT guys tell me is 16% grade. All I know is, on my approach, I was thinking "Where the **** is the road?" all the way up until the time the nose of my 379 started to follow the road down...

talk about your basic frantic downshift! I've had to climb hills in 4th before (previous tractor). This is the first time I've ever gone down hill in any of the low gears (3rd, to be precise - and I'd probably have shifted down to 2nd if the hill had been longer)

but I digress. Nice guys, those DOTs, even if it did cost me $$