Dallas County Texas Sheriff

Meanwhile Homie's selling smack in the alley, Vladimir is skimming the ATM's, and Bert's burgling the closed business next door. Priorities man, priorities...

 

Always have a pallet of onions on the trailer just in case.

 

The Feds granted an exemption stating otherwise. Our safety dept sent all of our drivers and owner ops a copy of the letter to carry if stopped by law enforcement.

 

I seriously doubt that’s true, I drive DFW 5 days a week, in & out of county. All local enforcement has been in show of force mode last several days including today. You can probably even get away with ignoring left lane restrictions right now, although there no need as light as traffics been.

 

I can’t post it because my letter is company specific. But the exemption is industry wide not company specific. I am not certain where you would find the original from the FMCSA. Possibly on their website, but I am not sure.

 

Dallas County has lost their mind. They are not targeting car haulers per se, rather they have declared that tow trucks are not essential vehicles in their county! They do not care what the Feds have to say, and really they do not have to listen as the letter from the CISA clearly states midway through it that it is simply guidance and does not create a Federal declaration or mandate.

That said, the Southwest Tow Operators is working on this with Governor Abbott's office to get Dallas County to come into line with the commonly accepted Federal list of essential services.

 

Here is the CISA guidance that most companies are using to base their letters on. Maybe this will help the other posters.

https://files.constantcontact.com/0800e212101/8bdfc9fd-5356-4c8f-bd39-736b4d6665de.pdf