Minimizing Exposure to DOT Legally?

It is an assumption, you just don't get tagged by your numbers unless there is a valid reason. I have drivers who never get pulled over, let alone inspected at a scale and under the same numbers, i have drivers who are always inspected it seems every time they driving with them being the same as the ones who done get pulled over or inspected. Nothing is ever found.

 

She has nice calves. Have I been in the truck too long?

 

One sure fire way to get inspected all the time is to have the word "farm" in your company name. I actually changed my DOT name because of it. Got stopped five times between Alturas CA and Calgary AB on one trip alone..... No more of that nonsense.

My suspicions (some based on experience):

Professional lettering. If you use mailbox letters and such for your lettering, it's not going to help.

New parts help. I once got out of an inspection because the inspector noticed I had two new hood mirrors on the truck. I guess he took it as a sign of taking a little pride and care of the old girl. It went from getting the creepers out to "let me see your registration and ifta".

Recent clean level ones help, a lot.

Recent OOS do not help, at all.

 

I have had Texas dot's tll me that their gravy is farm and gravel trucks.

 

I wash my truck maybe twice a year. I would probably be the first person picked out of a lineup for a urine sample based on my appearance(and Colorado plates). I wear what I want, all of my clothes are casual. When we put the lettering on the truck it was a windy day, so it's not straight but it's still the right size, legible, and a contrasting color to the truck.

I hardly get inspected. Prepass is probably the biggest factor. Outside of the scales, following the law keeps me from ever getting pulled over.

I really think that 99% of them don't care what you look like or are wearing, as long as you are doing your job properly.

 

They is skeered something might rub off. lol

 

But I get all my truck parts at Ace Hardware! Lettering.....duct tape.....super glue.....I ain't gonna pay the dealer for a new water pump!!!!!

 

Back years ago when Texas first came out with the law that you had to have the co name and location on a local truck, dot gave me a ticket. The law had been in affect for 4 days. I ask how Iwa suppose to know about it and he said I should get that info from my legislature. We just happened to be in Austin, I told him if he knew one that would even speak to me I would be glad to buy him lunch. When I signed the ticket, I went straight to a pay phone and had my wife run to a sign shop. I couldn't get the till the next day, so the next day he started to give me another ticket. I told him that was BS, that they would be on there the next day
He told me I should have wrote them on there with a magic marker, I ask how he would like me to write on his car with a magic marker. lol

 

Are they more starchy ?