DOT trap lol

Well that is rather vague. How about something a bit more specific? County and state would help with where ever the DOT is setting up.

 

Of course it's about the money. When I lived in Tennessee, the old Public Service Commission leader, Keith Bissell, let it be known to all DOT officers to write enough tickets to pay all our salaries and then some.
Campaign laws at the time were that anyone running for public office, can keep any leftover campaign money and put it in their personal bank account. Keith Bissell's clown PSC officers would show up at trucking company terminals "requesting" campaign donations for Keith Bissell. If the trucking company didn't fork over cash, their trucks would be harassed with no mercy at scale houses and roadside inspection setups. The company I worked for, XpressCo refused to pay and Keith Bissell's hoodlums made our lives miserable. The owner of XpressCo was Wayne Wise who later started Western Express.
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"More than 10 years after the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association filed suit against the Tennessee Public Service Commission and PSC Chairman Keith Bissell over truckers' rights, the state finally wrote a check for $583,700 to OOIDA for attorney fees and costs ordered by the court when OOIDA won the suit.

OOIDA's lawsuit, filed in March 1990, was prompted by discriminatory abuse of out-of-state truckers and touched off a chain of events that culminated in the abolishment of the Tennessee PSC.
In 1994, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Echols ruled that Bissell had illegally discriminated against truck drivers who refused to contribute to his campaign fund. Evidence presented by
OOIDA during the trial prompted the Federal Highway Administration to withhold federal funding and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to launch their own fact-finding mission. The state legislature dismantled the PSC altogether in 1995.
In 1997, the Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit voided the injunction won by OOIDA on the grounds that it was "too vague." However, the appeals court did not void Echols' declaration that the truckers' rights had been violated. The 6th Circuit sent the case back to Echols to consider whether the injunction was still needed since Bissell was no longer a Commissioner. Echols, in his second ruling, agreed with the appellate court that the injunction was unnecessary, but found that OOIDA still deserved to be awarded partial payment for legal costs.
The money will go to the association's Litigation Fund to assist in the funding of other legal actions directed at protecting the rights of professional truckers, according to the association's web site.
OOIDA's attorneys plan to negotiate with the state on interest and on the attorney's fees incurred during the appeal."

 

If it was actually about safety, every scale would be open 24/7/365. Never know when that unsafe driver will slide by with a license plate light out, or mud flap missing.

 

They pulled me into a rest area for an inspection. The guy said a tail light is out on the trailer. I looked at the lights and asked which one is out because looks like they all work. He pointed at one and said that one is out, even though it was lit up. Gave me a ticket and said if I have a problem with it, he'll go over the truck again and give me some real problems. XpressCo paid the ticket because they know it was a shakedown due to Wayne Wise refusing to "donate" campaign contributions. This was in Tennessee. OOIDA brought all that to a halt, which is in the article I posted.

 

we complain of the rickety trucks and trailers on our roads, getting into accidents and making the general public hate us even more


we complain about any DOT setting up to possibly catching such equipment and drivers.

what's the alterantive?


ignore everything, and let the road carnage continue?

if YOUR equipment and YOUR logs are up to date and in proper order, then YOU have nothing to worry about.

is it a money grab?

most likely, but if your crap is all together then YOU have nothing to worry about.

 

One of those guys in Tennessee; think he lives in Crossville or near there, was so pumped up on power and corruption, finally the state refused to let him take his trooper car to his house. He was harassing anyone he could, on his way to work and on his way home after work. Pulled one car over with a family in it and shot their dog, claiming the dog attacked him. Later it was proved he lied about that. He still wasn't fired and was allowed to retire.