Rest Area Shake Downs

ok question for everyone.

Has anyone actually got inspected while ALREADY AT an OHIO rest stop? I mean YOU, not your uncle's wife's sister's husbands brother's girlfriend's ex husband. Not a friend of a friend. Not another driver at your company. Not your best friend.. Have YOU ever got inspected after you were already in an *OHIO* rest stop?

If so, was it in recent history? (NOT "back in the day")

I live in Ohio, I see the inspections going on all the time at rest stops. I also know the polar bears position themselves a few miles downwind from the rest areas, so they can pull you over and tell you to pull in the rest stop ,, then they can relax, put on the exam gloves and give a full rectal without causing a wreck.

I've gotten dragged off the road for a level II (he "thought" I was missing a light) but have never been harassed while going into or out of ,, or while at a rest stop.

I only ask because everyone I ask in person "knows someone who did", but I have yet to have someone tell me it happened to themself.

I truly don't know. At least if someone here has, at least I can say someone on the Internet said it happened to them lol.

But if they do harass drivers already in a rest stop, that's some dirty pool ..

 

So don't argue. Just ignore them. No law says you have to answer the knock at your door.

 

I have been DOT'd in rest areas in several states. Ohio being one of them. But, I have never been woken up to an officer knocking on my truck. It's always, so far, been where they had signs up, "Truck check ahead, all commercial vehicles next right." Like I said in my last post, I consider this a mental excersize in "what ifs"

 

Maybe if you stayed off those blue roads it wouldn't be that big of an issue...

Jaysus, it's not that complicated.

 

I wish I would get inspected. I get $50 for a clean level 1, but I haven't been pulled in for an inspection in almost 2 years...

 

Careful what you wish for ... I bet you missed that air line chafing or that reflective tape that had a small chip in it ... Or that phantom air leak that only an inspector can hear ...

 

Gotta hand it you, Mack, that's one of my all-time favorites

 

Waaay back in about '95 I was sleeping in one of those little inspection areas east of Knoxville. Slept right through my alarm, in fact, and woke up with a siren in my ear. Seems the DOT boys had come to play and I was parked right where they wanted to set up the scale. Needless to say it didn't take me long to leave.