Can DOT Highway patrols search your truck

Sounds stupid, but yeah, they are a required piece of equipment for sleeper berths. Most cops won't ask you to see them...but if you are being ignorant, and they either think you may be hiding something but don't have enough to legally justify the hunch yet or if they want to bust your balls for being such an ##### to them, they can check to be sure they are installed.

That's probably why they've never asked you if they can check them...smart enough not to get mouthy on the side of the road.

 

They can't shoot you for being overweight, can they?

 

Funny you mention that, a guy in my class mentioned said he had landed a job working for an O/O hauling meat to Texas.

 

You get there ahead of schedule.

 

Not yet anyway.

 

Not over-grossed...Some DOT think spreads are legal to 17K per axle like Tandems....That's an on going problem I have in CO.....And the fact they think their scales are more accurate than a CAT scale....

 

Basically there is three ways for a search. 1) Probable cause, i.e. smell marijuana, or a drug detection K-9, 2) consent search or 3) a search warrant signed by a judge. This isn't as complicated as some folks make it. I know for me, I don't get my rocks off searching a truck or any vehicle, never have. Yes, I have searched. Yes I have found lots of contraband. But you can not imagine some of the sheet I have found when searching vehicles, and I'm not talking contraband.

 

I would have called his bluff and had him get the warrant. A judge won't sign off on a warrant without probable cause that a crime is either being committed or has been committed and is in the process of being covered up...and if he had enough probable cause to justify a warrant, he would be able to do the search against your wishes and without the warrant.

Just sayin'.