How's this for load securement?

Thats following public opinion not law. Feds choose to ignore pot states. Dot is a state agency but opperate under federal certification.

 

The feds set the minimum standards but the states can go with higher standards but cannot go lower. Hence bridge laws being different in some states where the law in that state is a lower weight than the federal bridge laws.

 

Passed a pickup today pulling a trailer with 10 of the large square bales and 2 of those super sacks (I assume they had feed in them) and there was not even a rope on any of the load.

 

Back in my towing day I was talking to a mechanic, I had towed a car a few miles in all because the seat belt was stuck. He told me that one day he got in a car to move it into his shop, he literally drove it in a uturn that came into one lane of the little street where his shop is and the CHP just happened to be there, busted him for no seat belt on the street.

 

Any type of move wholly within a state (except moves that are a leg of an interstate move, ) the federal rules don't apply. Prime example is Alaska and California have different HOS rules for intrastate drivers. Those rules happen to be looser than the fed regs, but they could just as easily be stricter.

 

I understand the principle, I've never seen a state with different load securement rules than the Feds. I have had states not pick things that others don't but they all seem to follow the Feds.

 

I honestly do not know the rule on this 100%,.. only what my boss had told me at the time. But all of our trucks had chicken lights down the sides of the truck and up the side of the sleepers.

One of my chicken lights was out and I got an inspection ticket for it,.. even though it was not one of the mandatory lights,.. but rather an extra light.

I was told what he did was wrong,.. but under the rules,.. he could enforce it that way. It was at his discretion to opt chicken lights into it. So even though I've never read a Fed rule enforcing illumination of accessory lighting,.. I still got written up over it.

Hurst

 

Hurst, if it's on the truck it has to work. As with everything tho, the officer has the option to not write it up. Years ago this was a favorite of Virginia and Tennessee to pick on.

 

Not entirely true:

 

Idk. I just know back in the day i paid for a bridge or two in both Virginia and Tennessee.
Since led lights have become common this is much less of an issue than it used to be. Now i only carry a box of 194 bulbs instead of a whole case!