Can Barney ask for Toll and Fuel Receipts at a roadside?

I've had some horrible experiences with them and witnessed some horrible things they do even when I was very young, maybe 10 yrs. old. Most of the horrible experiences were in Tennessee, my home state; I could write a book about that. TN at one time had the most redneck, corrupt state troopers and DOT in the nation. I've seen truckers get speeding tickets for 35 in a 15 in a school zone at 2am in the morning. The small town cop said the 15 was during school hours, but the times aren't on the school zone sign so the ticket is legal. I've been cursed like you wouldn't believe when I pulled over on the shoulder to report an accident to a trooper and he screamed profanities that I was illegally parked even though I was safely off the highway. A car had left the road at high speed, gotten airborn and crashed through some trees; I didn't get to report it because he was so infuriated with his beet red face and big mouth, blah, blahing and spraying spittle. I remember one TN trooper pulling my parents over when they left church and two blocks later he was cursing them saying he had been chasing them for 15 miles accusing them of trying to avoid arrest and running cars off the road. My father had to pay a huge ticket for something that didn't happen. I was in the back seat, so I know he had only driven 2 blocks. I don't trust any of them.

 

Fuel receipts may not be time stamped but they can call the station where you purchased fuel and get the time.

 

When I was on paper, I was not always "legal", and I drove many 750 mile days that showed 650 on paper, but regardless what else was going on with the log, my fuelings and toll booth passages were always in sync. Never had any problems from CMV cops or company auditor. I don't worry about fuelings by a roadside inspection, I do those mainly because that's how the in-house people try and catch problems that should be looked into deeper. They have the Comdata reports and they have the logs. If they look good, you look good. The cops do not have this so if you show fuelings and they seem reasonable you'll usually get by.

Nobody is going to log a fuel when he didn't, and whose to say if you didn't need fuel at a particular time or day? They gonna stick the tank and measure the fuel and calculate the burn rate? I doubt it seriously.

 

Is it a requirement to keep fuel receipts?

 

Well, you need proof of purchase for IFTA. But, your fuel card should be able to give you a report of your usage by state, day, month, etc.

 

Granted I've only been out here six months, but I have not had this happen yet. Did get pulled in once in KC. Asked for log book, bols, permits and truck registration, and wife's license since she was passenger. I complied. He ran everything. Came up clean. Found out was pulled in since no front license plate on truck. It was new and still under a temp registration. Made small talk with him. He didn't find anything. 15 minutes later I was on down the road. No issues. My grandmother's second husband was a cop. Was always told was raised to just comply. I wouldn't worry much about it. I've found, and remember only six months experience, that DOT officers are there to do a job like we are. You make it easy on them and most of the time they will do same for you.

 

The company I'm leased to fuels mostly with T/A and Petro, which have the fuel receipts available to us online so i don't have any fuel receipts in my truck. LOL Wonder wha they would do with that?

 

Probably write you up for a tail light out. They have to do something to show the boss they're earning their paycheck and bringing in revenue for the state.

 

from what I heard several years ago from the FMCSA officer that did my safety audit. Once you have a commercial license most of your rights are gone. Your truck can be searched to inspect anything that has a regulation, from the length of your bed in your sleeper to making sure you have no firearm in a commercial vehicle. and you have to log 15 minutes for a fuel stop and the receipt has to match town wise and date wise but its hard to match the time with no time stamp. I also had a driver that got pulled over on the turnpike in FL outside of Orlando. The DOT asked him if he had a sunpass . Driver said no so DOT asked for toll receipt driver said the toll booth operator didn't give him one, DOT said the booth operators are required to give all commercial vehicles a receipt even if the driver don't want it. DOT wrote him a ticket for running toll booth. I protested this saying the receipt was lost and was told if I could not produce a receipt the ticket would stand and it did.

 

I have had many problems with local bears and dipping my tanks on my personal truck. I was running Red in my pickup. I know I shouldn't be, but when you have farm fuel it is just so much cheaper. The tax free incentive makes it real nice when you have to fill a 100 gallon aux tank.