Shakedown in Progress

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by JonJon78, Jan 27, 2023.

  1. Kshaw0960

    Kshaw0960 Road Train Member

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    I’ve been pulled over and had a DOT inspection with a brand new truck I picked up THAT DAY and had under 200 miles. It was a daycab with no trailer in San Antonio.

    I’ve also been pulled over between Dallas and Arkansas and the DOT made me drive over 15 miles to a truck stop and did the inspection there. Did not have me scale it.
     
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  3. Professor No-Name

    Professor No-Name Road Train Member

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    It's not new. Some suburbs had motor vehicle enforcement cops back in the 90's when I ran intermodal.
     
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  4. bamanation

    bamanation Heavy Load Member

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    It’s only going to get worse in some of these states that are losing tax revenues from big corporations moving away to Tennessee and Texas. As their tax revenues go down they will do shakedowns at anything they think will make them a dollar.
     
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  5. KrumpledTed

    KrumpledTed Medium Load Member

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    I’ve been a bigger ####### in bigger leagues than telling a cop off on a traffic stop. Putting a corrupt cop in his place on the spot might as well be a slow night in the champagne room for how comfortably erect I’m gonna be having the video/audio from my devices replayed during the court hearing when I sue whatever jurisdiction dumb enough to not settle on the case decides to try it instead.

    I have more respect for the lot lizard that uses the puddle to splash her box out before hopping in the next truck than any law enforcement.
     
  6. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    Woah, woah, woah, ms Libbey- the part of the story I don't like is when he took you to a scale that is notoriously wrong. Especially when there is a dot weigh station 5 miles away.

    I haven't been there in a couple of years, but all it's good for is figuring out how much they put on you. We have explicit instructions to rescale after leaving there.
     
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  7. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    This is in DuPage County. You hear a lot about the corrupt Democrats in Chicago, but they're nothing compared to the Republicans who control DuPage County and the various towns therein. Pay to play, policing for profit, enforcement for votes (or no enforcement if you'd prefer).
     
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  8. Stringb8n

    Stringb8n Road Train Member

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    I was just thinking this exact thing when I was reading the OP's posts.
     
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  9. 77fib77

    77fib77 Road Train Member

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    Well he didn't get shot like in Chicago.

    But corruption is corruption.
     
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  10. JonJon78

    JonJon78 Road Train Member

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    No tickets, just a waste of time. The reason for the traffic stop was because my tire was supposedly bulging as a pass him by doing 45MPH. So tell me why when he gets out of his squad and approaches my truck he doesn't look at the tire and when I tell him, I would like to look at the tire ( which I did ) he didn't even walk back with me, officer just stayed by my truck looking at my permit book with the cab card, insurance etc etc... Complete sham. I would've alot more respect for the stop if he just told me flat out, that he's the local DOT, and if I didn't have a scale ticket from shipper or truckstop he was gonna take me to scale... Honestly save the BS bulging tire story, that was unnecessary.

    Hell no. I would've told him to kick rocks. Truck has load gauge and trailer has axle scale, that's all I need. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year I'll CAT scale if something looks fishy.

    LOL.

    The "saving grace" for wasting more of my time was, a day cab pulled up behind me while I was on the scale and was waiting to get on as he must have been either dropping or loading at that business... Instead of making him move so I could axle scale, the officer just said you can just go, "your under gross, I'm not gonna worry about the axle scaling"
     
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  11. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    Next time go to coughing and hacking and tell him you’re just getting over the flu…
    Wipe your nose then hand him permit book.
     
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