DOT trap lol

Abuse comes in many forms; ignorance is abuse.

 

Depends on the place, some places do have a 'reputation'.

I know one of my drivers ran his mouth in Connecticut.1.5 hour level one and all that was found was the windshield washer fluid was empty...

Tractor was only a few months old and the tanker was brand new but they looked long and hard...

Same guys used to laugh at my one owner operator who always figured a CVSA sticker from Conn would carry a lot of weight in NJ and NY as he went out of his way to get inspected and every time they were 'out' of CVSA stickers but he kept trying....

Attitude goes a long way with a lot of the inspectors....

 

Do your pretrip and correct the items you know they are looking for before you take off. At least limits issues.

I worry more about CO Sheriff and rolling LEO's than the scales.I've been inspected in most of the scales here in CA, and every Scale ticket I have received, even the overweight was true and accurate, However that certainly does not apply to some of the tickets I've received rolling down the road, like the last one "License not in possession , because I refused to unlock the passenger door or roll down the passenger window." So he wrote me for license not in possession, all on gopro video for the judge, whom dismissed it.
Scale I do not go around them nor do I have a fear of going thru them, at least out west anyway.
That does not mean I do there job for them either.

 

I don’t have much to add on the topic but to the license plate issue. If you’re an owner op or have a personal vehicle that’s sees a lot of gravel take and dip your plates in high quality clear poly urethane before coating the whole plate test on a small area to ensure it won’t affect your plate.
There are so many blends you can’t be too careful.

 

I keep my front plate inside the car, where the boot should be, still looks new, but have been stopped for the plate not being on the front of the car.

 

I’ve always ran both on my personal vehicles and I live on a gravel road and drive a lot of em. My license plates look like they’re sand blasted after 6months because of rocks flying. Road has basically pea gravel with a 35mph speed limit and some people run 50-60 (it’s a two lane bi direction highway)

 

Hmmmm. Seems like organized crime to me.

 

I got a ticket in New Mexico for a flat tire. Had a nail in it, I tried talking to the officer and telling her that it could have happened at anytime in my last 4.5 hours of driving and I wouldn’t have known until the next time I stopped. She didn’t care, wrote me a ticket.
After that I’m always nervous going into weigh stations.
Because at the end of the day their salary whether directly or indirectly is supplemented by the fines, they have an incentive to write you a ticket over simply having you correct the issue.

 

Is it OK to quote NWA here?

For the most part, I've dealt with a lot of decent cops. There are those, though, who think they are above the laws they are supposedly enforcing. #### those pigs. I had a fat ### in Iowa write a ticket for no seatbelt when he couldn't even get one around his blubber. He was big enough to put 95% of the lard ##### at the flying j to shame. It would seem some believe a badge gives them free reign, even after they turn it in.