Oregon Permit

No, office personal are in charge of permits. In your way of thinking I guess the company driver also has to make sure the highway use tax is paid also?

 

To clarify, the office is responsible for procuring the permits. The driver is responsible for letting the office know what is needed.

It is a shared job.

 

If the company sends the driver someplace that he does not have permits for, or active permits for, it is the driver's responsibility to refuse to go there, or accept the ticket as his/her fault.

 

Two issues here - legal responsibility and moral responsibility.

Oregon issued the ticket to the driver and will expect the driver to make sure it is paid. And on that note, if the company says they are going to pay it is the drivers responsibility to make sure that it does get paid. Personally, I would pay it and have the company reimburse me.

On the moral side, this will depend on how the company is run. But to say that most company drivers understand what states need permits for what is flat out wrong. Unless they give you a list of what permits you need in your book or a completed book that you can look at to see what has expired, most company drivers are clueless on this.

How many company drivers could tell you what states you need Intra-State authority in to pick-up and deliver within the state? I own a company and not sure about this.

 

When I crossed into Oregon from California on the I-5 without a permit, all I had to do was park the truck at the Ashland scales (after being weighed) and walk into the permit office building across from the scale house and pay for one. It was no problem. That was 3 years ago. BTW, the permit office there is not open 24/7.