I didn't know USDOT worked state scales

I had a canadian dot I know from whitehorse yukon inspect me in Tok Alaska, Imagine my surprise when I pilled in toi the super coupe building and seen who it was.
We have a fed dot stationed here, there is one at the San Jon NM scales too. the thing about him is if he writes you up with anything that has a fine attached, he has to hand cuff you and take you to Sante Fe, he can't just give you a ticket and let you go. He usually partners with one of the state guys and lets them write the tickets.

 

Probably, but he is a cool dude, and they probably have to mess up pretty bad before he would do that to them. lol

 

Washington state was red lighting Every Other truck about 3 years ago . walk inside & transportation revenue officers for the u s was in there Didn't care about logs , drivers license or registration. They wanted BOL to make copies. Guy behind me was freaking out didn't want to hand them over lol

 

Not all states have actual state employees per say.

Some use dot employees (OR) and highway patrol. (CA)

OR will usually have an orange pickup parked there also. When open.
At the smaller po dunk scales.

 

Ask for his ID and ask him where is his authority to ask you questions.

The us dot does not enforce truck level regulations.

 

They do random visits to scales and do random inspections on trucks. I have one done by them on my truck. It was level 1, in Louisiana, 5 years ago. I have seen them in NM scale last year. They wear different uniform.