pulled over with expired medical card.

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  1. roundhouse

    roundhouse Road Train Member

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    Every state is different but I would either take the med card paperwork to your states dmv in person and watch them enter it , or fax AND email AND snail mail it
     
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  3. m16ty

    m16ty Road Train Member

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    I wouldn’t worry too much about it, probably just a fine.
    People worry about PSA and CSA points a lot more than I do. Unless it’s fixing to get bad enough that officials are fixing to show up at my place of business, or I’m about to get my DOT or CDL pulled, I don’t worry too much about it.
     
  4. Accidental Trucker

    Accidental Trucker Road Train Member

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    A couple of snafu's like this in a row, and that's exactly what's going to happen. "Your company has been selected for an audit". Ask me how I know.....
     
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  5. m16ty

    m16ty Road Train Member

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    I've admittedly have had what could be considered serious violations throughout my time in a truck, but it's been spread out over 30 years. I've never gotten several in a short period of time, so I guess I've never been flagged for a visit.
    I've been audited for IRP and IFTA, but never a safety audit (I shouldn't even say that, now I'll get one).
     
  6. Accidental Trucker

    Accidental Trucker Road Train Member

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    We had a driver come off vacation and forget to put 7 days “off duty” in his log book.

    one OOS.

    the next week, truck gets pulled in for a level 1, the day after coming out of the shop for its annual DOT, and they find a cracked rim on the trailer.

    two OOS.

    Three weeks later, after we put the driver on a logging app so he won’t forget to log his off duty days, the app yells “violation”, and he moves some stuff around to shut it up…. Which promptly gets caught in a level three. AND HE WAS LEGAL TO BEGIN WITH.

    Three OOS.

    And a safety auditor came to visit for four days two months later.

    And that is why trucking company owners have nervous ticks and/or drinking habits.
     
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