DOT question

Minnesota might
If you get the officer who takes a picture of each side of your truck, then if you have more than 3 things different from side to side, you get a ticket. But he only has 30 seconds to study the photos.

It's only $50 for each difference after the 3 they give you, so it's really not a big deal.

 

That's incredible. They love their cash cows; don't they?!

 

I call BS on that. From the factory, most brand new trucks will have more than 3 differences left to right. Take my truck, for example...right side door has a sight glass down by the passenger's feet, left side is either a kick-vent or the door is a solid piece of sheet metal. Right side has a pair of air tanks between the steer tire and fuel tank...left side is a battery box. Right side, I have tire chains hanging off a bracket on the frame...left side is a tool box. Newer Macks have the DPF/SCR system on the right side (where a fuel tank SHOULD be), and the left side fuel tank is where it ought to be. If there is a passenger side fuel tank, it'll be set farther back because of the DPF/SCR. Speaking of SCR, the DEF tank is only on one side...usually on the left. Dump bucket? You'll probably have a frame-mounted hydraulic tank on one side and not the other. Only one tool box? APU? Tire chain rack?

NOWHERE in the regulations will you find ANYTHING even remotely hinting that both sides of the truck ought to be mirror images of each other.

 

It's sad that things have gotten so bad that laws/fines like this are becoming entirely believable regardless of whether they're true or not.

 

You actually thought my post was real?

I said Minnesota because the dot there got in some hot water after they had come up with their own checklist to determine if the driver was fatigued. Things like, does the driver have a laptop or xbox/ps4/etc in sleeper? Fatigued. Bed not made? Fatigued. A whole myriad of bogus crap and they gave drivers lots of 10 hours breaks and tickets. It took a while, but the federalies put them in their place. This would have been a few years back now.

Edit to add
Here is the link. I guess it was back in 2009. The link within the link to the actual state issued "fatigue list" no longer works- but scroll down to the comments. Someone copied much of it and you can see the ridiculousness.
Is Minnesota Fatigue Checklist Unfairly Stopping Truck Drivers?

And a thread on here also
DO NOT TAKE THE Minnesota State Police Driver Fatigue survey

 

No.

We ran without fairings most all my life. Fairings is a bauble designed to save 5.00 in fuel over a trip while it cost 500 to replace it after you bent it trying to get into a tough dock.

 

Not likely. Never had this experience in MN. They don't have the time to take pictures, of every truck that passes through the scales.