Ignorant Officer?

you gave them THIRTY days worth of logs? you were asking for trouble

they only get seven plus one, thats it, anything else, they need a subpoena

twenty minutes from your destination and they shut you down? nice chaps

keep your logs straight, at all times, never ever leave home without it (being tight)

 

dude only give them the pervious 7 days and the one for the current day that you are working on.

There is no reason to ask for more tickets by giving threm that many logs remember may's logs you can tear out of the log book.
They also are not numbered either so if you make a mistake you can fix it on another one.
I make alot of mistakes the 30 day log book would probaly last me about 15 days if I was lucky.

When I was going by terminals I grabbed another coloring book most of the time.
I know it is against policy to have more than the current one and a back up in the truck but I kept two backups never know when you will be away from the treminals for a long time.

May knows most of their drivers rewrite their logs once or twice for each day to correct mistakes and make sure the lines and writing is neat that is why they give the books out that do not have the pages numbered.

When correcting mistakes all you need to do is rember the fuel stops and the scales that you run across.

I will now take the 5th so I do not get spanked.

 

The federal regulations, as well as the CVSA (Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance) state that spring positioning parts must be properly equipped and in proper working order!

 

Mgassel - I know. I did consider limiting his access to my logs, as it were. But he returned the favor, really. The second instance where I'd messed up was 8 or 9 days outside the magic '7' - he just pointed it out to me and didn't cite me for it.

Yeah, it could have burned me like Dresden, but in this instance, it worked out fine.

Oh - I do re-write my logs, too. I'm thinking that part of my problem was inaccurate transcription (on top of forgetting I was doing a split, when the day rolled over). It's certainly not lack of understanding on how to log, after all.

 

I do remember this. About eight or nine years ago. They were constantly issuing brake adjustment fines. Apparently, it was a rediculous number coming out of these places. One of the larger fleets filed a complaint with, I think, Federal Marshals. Then, set up one/several of their rigs with hidden cameras. The inspector(s) were taking the slack adjusters out, then writing the drivers up for it. Well, they got caught on camera. I'd heard they were pretty much shut down until a completely new crew was hired to run the two sites. I'm not sure what recourse was given to affacted drivers. But, the rumor was that the larger fleets sued the pants off the California Department of Transportation. This was all the rage in "cb talk" for about six months. So, make of it what you will. I ran lots of CA loads. I, only ever, got asked to see my four-day oversize permit (53') a few times. They, usually, just waved me on, without even looking at it, when the officer would come walking out to see me getting it out of the bubble. But, boy, would I be nervous the whole time I spent in there (CA).

 

I told this story on another thread but I'll keep it as short as possible.
Last year before going OTR I was working at the Morongo Reservation (just N/O of the Westbound scales) with both my ten wheeler and my lowside. The job started at the South gate right in front of DOT. There were 5 to 6 trucks depending what was going on and the operators were putting on 40K on the ten wheelers and 60-70K on the lowside.
There was not a #### thing DOT could but watch. Now the best part, at the end of everyday they would post some officers outside to try to bust the guys going home but we all left at the westgate in Banning. Everyday it was a "Cat and Mouse" game and short of flipping DOT off, we did laugh at them because they couldn't go on to Reservation land.