Post your positive DOT experiences

Not really DOT but Leo and truck related. I got pulled over for speeding 55 in 45 on my way home from work the other night and when the sheriff took my license he saw it was an A and asked if I drove a truck. When I told him I did he told me I didn't need a ticket on my record because it was my living and just to slow down. I thought that was pretty cool of him. I honestly shouldn't have been going that fast because I get done work around 3am when the bars close so he was just pulling me over to see if I had been drinking being as how I gave him a reason.

 

Four good experiences, one bad. I was very nice, even joking at all 5. @LDLWells is probably right. Go in with an attitude...you lose.

They are people, just like us...they have a job to do, just like us.

 

In my just over 4 years of trucking, I've never had a bad experience. Being polite is a large part of coming out on top.

 

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It better be a really good post to get you to introduce it!

 

He's got a point @Puppage all this build up..... it's gotta be gold now lol

 

Come on man...it’s LARRY! Love that dude. And, I have a big soft spot for the rest of you. True story.

 

I have had many, many good experiences over the years and a few bad ones too. lol
My very first load on Alaska I took a long load of pipe to prudhoe. It was somewhere around 25 below up there and the wind was howling when I unloaded, so I loaded my dolly on the back, but didn't take the oversize sign off the front bumper.
When I got back to town, the seargent was plowing the parking lot at the scales, and when I stopped on the scales a female scalemaster came out and wanted my logbook, and mentioned the oversize sign, saying she was not sure, but didn't think it was suppose to be on there.
I had not touched my log book since I loaded. lol
I mentioned that my log might be behind and she said she hoped not, because it was mandatory for her to write me a ticket,and ask how much behind. lol
We went in and she told me that if the seargant saw my sign, we would find out pretty quick if it was legal or not, And told me to hurry up and fill out my logs, while she went through my paper work and before he came in. He came in with an attitude over my sign, saying I should have turned it and that every truck I met thought they were meeting an oversize. And why didn't I remove it. I ask if he wanted the truth, it was freaking cold, ANd I am new here, but whre I came from drivers had enough sense to see that I am bobtailing, sign or not. lol
He stomped out the door and called back on his cell and told the lady to write me up, no fine just a warning. lol
After that I would sometimes go past the scales and grab a load and have to come right back through. The lady would grab mu log book, paperwork and license and do an inspection while I was gone, she met her quota without holding me up, it worked great, till they transferred her.