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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moose1958, post: 10555270, member: 54776&quot;]Many years ago I was talking to a DOT/CVSA/MCSAP certified state officer (PSC COP) about the subject of them &quot;picking&quot; on drivers as individuals and a carrier as a company. The guy told me with a laugh we really don&#039;t need to pick on drivers all that much. We were sitting at the old now closed TA on I 75 south of Macon Georgia. That officer told me if he really wanted to be tough he could find something wrong even a minor fault in almost every vehicle in the parking lot. He went on and actually surprised me a bit with his openness and frankness about that subject. He said that when he leaves he was headed south and said he could within 30 minutes see at least 3 or 4 one-eyed monsters and almost every day can see a trailer with a missing tag or inspection sticker, or be behind a truck and see slick tires. In fact, he said if he stopped every truck every time he saw a flaw he would never get anything else done.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my hometown, we have a rock quarry and there is only one road going to it. There is also a plant there that mixes pavement for road work. Many trucks go in and out of that road 5 days a week. The road is also a county maintained road that stays in bad shape. It&#039;s actually weight restricted, but that county restriction is mostly ignored. They produce several types of crushed stone along with sand at this quarry.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is how I feel about it. With experience, a driver can get a good idea of what their average weight will be just by looking at a load. Add 10% if the load is wet. I just don&#039;t have any sympathy for a driver that gets clipped for being overweight, EVEN if the cop is being a &quot;Richard&quot;![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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