Put OOS after level 1 inspection!

Piece of advise, anytime you do any kind of mouthing off or gesturing to a scale they will inspect you. Best bet is to do what they say and act stupid, 99% of the time acting stupid gets you out of there quick.

 

The bad news: those deficiencies will count as accumulated points on your CSA record.
The good news: those points disappear little by little every year. After three years they're completely gone.

Don't let this incident get you down. Just take it as a "lessons learned" and be more careful next time. Drivers are more accountable for everything on their trucks. Get deficiencies fixed ASAP. You'll have less problems down the line. I'm kind of angry at the trooper: he threw his weight around by giving you a Level 1 instead of the planned Level 3 after you angered him. I don't think that folks like that should hold any type of authority.

Oh well. Stay safe and be careful out there!

 

sounds like you just got a dick head with a problem at the scale--just take it cool at the scale--go slow and watch the lights--usually they are pretty decent guys--but same as anyplace,you can get some body abusing his authority
dont worry about it

 

Sorry to hear about this Walstib. Hopefully things will get better for you. Keep up the great posts though. They guys like you that are willing to post the good and bad are making it easier for us newbies to understand what goes on out there...

 

Well, with all that, at least you're rolling.

I'm still sitting in Dalton. After dropping my load yesterday morning at 7, I had to wait until midnight for a dumpy little 280 mile run to KY. So I forced myself to sleep yesterday and then they gave that load to a new guy. So now I've been up all night and ready to sleep again...LOL

Watta bet they'll want me to run today?

So far a killer new year. A 1000 miles this week. WOOPIE!

 

Try not to get any more points on your csa 2010 as they will add up quick.If you get too many, your company will have to let you go. On a positive note, any good inspections you get will help to offset the negative on your csa 2010. If you pick up a trailer that has a bad tire or maybe a lite not working, get it fixed soon as possible. Just make sure you do good pre and post trip inspections.

 

IMHO, the POST trip is more important the the PRE trip. If you find something wrong, you can get it fixed while taking your 10 and it won't cut into your delivery schedule.

 

Lesson #1: never attempt to make eye contact with the PIGs while crossing a scale.

Lesson #2: lesson 1 really don't matter as they're going to do what ever the hell they want to ya anyways.

 

Sounds like u had an ### of a cop. I've been pulled into inspections a few times specially hauling containers. I've never had a problem, I've had a few things wrong but minor and b4 csa 2010. Most of the time if you are polite, I even make small talk or have asked a few general questions, seems to get them in a better mood and not so much in busting your ###. They are doing their job just as u are yours. Once I was behind a guy giving the cop a hell of a time about his logs and from where he had run I knew he was either out or very close to being out of hours but swore he still had a couple more he was a real ### of a driver and I knew he was full of it cause I had made that same trip before. Any way cop shut him down and by now after sitting there forever waiting on this guy I was about out of hours 15 minutes from home. I thought for sure he was going to shut me down but I was polite made small talk he inspected my truck asked me where I was going I told him and he told me I wish all the guys I deal with were like you and told me to go on ahead home. Another time I had been working local hauling equipment and a buddy asked if I could make a trip to arkansas for him and forgot to update my last 7 days and only had 2 days I had been driving but I was polite and didn't give a hard time and was told to get a new log book put in my last 7 days and go on my way. I think showing some manners, kindness andlooking half way decent will get u a lot further than looking like a mess and slob and being a loud mouth know it all will. But I think you just got a bad cop cause sometimes when the sun shines on those screens it is hard to see the light.