Gotta love DOT, set up at rest area in the middle of the night.

You guys need to learn to read. I said IF I KNOW YOU ARE INSIDE. You don't play games with law enforcement. Period. Of course no one is going to knock out windows of vehicles parked. Quit being dramatic and looking for conflict. You'll find it every time.

 

Like I said. Good thing you are no longer a “public servant”!

 

Actually there is, if you define mandate as the guidelines CVSA puts out for all inspections. I.E. what is a level 1, 2, 3, etc..
While it takes a membership to read CVSA's policies, you can find several news articles about it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cvsa+inspection+waking+driver
CVSA tells officers not to wake up sleeping drivers, leave off-duty truckers alone
New CVSA policy stresses that inspectors shouldn’t interrupt off-duty drivers for random inspection
CVSA tells inspectors not to disturb drivers during off-duty/sleeper time for inspections

Plus tons more....

 

And what law are you using for your bullying tactics? And I'm talking a specific law, give statue number.
Otherwise you are just harassing someone. You know, the whole reason for the BLM and defund movements.

 

Agreed still need probable cause to break into someone's property. I suspect any officer doing what he says would be suspended at the least and fired at the most.

Supervisor: what evidence/cause did you have to suspect the driver was in jeopardy?

Officer: they didn't answer me when I knocked.

Supervisor: what else?

Officer: nothing.

Supervisor: so you ilegally broke into private property because they didn't answer the door?

 

I thought about it in terms of my 10 or 8 being cancelled out and needed to be restarted. 7/3 split will help here but that's just a half arse win...why not split anything with at least 2 hours sleeper or more: 4/6, 5/5?
It was like that before 2004: 2/6, 3/5, 4/4 etc but there are always some PhDs who think they know better from you when you are rested or fatigued and put everyone in the same category.

This interruption should not force someone into resetting the rest clock all over. If it ever happens to me, I think, I'll mark the Inspection as off Duty and move on as if it did not happen.
After all there is no f... way that staying in the sleeper for 7 hours and 59 minutes or less followed by another 8 hours due to DOT interruption is assuring someone's rest. I'd say it is stupid, idoitic, counterproductive and simply overseen by current HOS rules...which means we need to use our brains and so should the law enforcement.

 

As has been said. Simple answer. Don't answer.

 

At a rest area? That's hard-core...

 

I carry water food snacks etc with me so all I need is restroom and I can camp out anywhere.

 

The view from my "reset."