DOT CLOWNS

After getting a ticket just outside of K'zoo for having my tandems 6" UNDER length, I won't run my truck in Michigan anymore.

I asked him when they came up with that law? He said it'd been on the books for thirty years. I called BS and told him 20 years previous, I drove for NTB and ran with my tandems all the way up every #### day between Lansing and Detroit... never a hassle.

20-30 years ago, I can't ever remember even speaking to a DOT cop in Michigan. Now they are rabid.

 

I got a Level 2 at that little coup in Belt. One of the worst snow storms you'd ever seen. Dude's dipping my tanks, looking at the engine with a flashlight for leaks. They do not like giving clean reports. I needled them best as I could when dude couldn't find anything.

 

Way to cause a road hazard just for a bit of revenue.

 

You gotta think tho as a company man it really ain’t worth chaining up.
Most company guys making less then 50cpm max speed of 45mph with chains on plus the possibility of an accident?

as an owner operator or percentage paid company guy id chain up without missing a beat.
Now I don’t even carry chains “if you need chains park that mfer I don’t need some ####### killing em selves on my truck” as bob says it.

(I carry mud chains not snow chains)

 

I guess it’s just to each his own and company policy.

 

My first job in trucking was with a smaller mega, and every truck carried chains but we were only allowed to chain up in emergencies. They would rather have a late delivery than have a worker's comp claim. I've never chained up in my driving career and don't plan on it.

 

I had to chain up on I-40 once from west Memphis to Little Rock. February 2011. Took 8 hours to get that stretch. Looked like a mad max film the whole way