Shakedown in Progress

JolliRoger · Jan 31, 2023

RockinChair said: ↑

No sir, this was the coop at Lone Jack. I headed south out of Oak Grove 70 and then turned east on US 50 to go to Warrensburg. An eastbound officer, who saw me make the turn, pulled me over and accused me of skipping the scale. I told him the only scale I was aware of was up on the interstate about 15 miles east, which was the truth. He informed me that there was a scale "a few miles west of here on 50 Highway" and told me that because I skipped it he was going to escort me there, and then demanded I hand my CDL to him.

We won't even talk about the shenanigans that happened once I got to the coop. He wrote me one ticket that was legitimate and two that weren't, and placed me and my trailer OOS both of which were also not legitimate.

Personally I think he was just pissed because he had to work Saturday on Memorial Day weekend. Or maybe he had a fight with his wife that morning, I don't know. But in over 20 years of driving I've only ever had two unpleasant experiences with LEOs, and he was the second one. They've all been good since then.
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I can still count all my close encounters on my fingers and still have some left. Several were just shake downs by small town night shift looking for a better life.
Others were those who just "bowed up" as soon as we were face to face. Think it may have been my jovial expression, mistook me as being funny.

Siinman · Jan 31, 2023

JonJon78 said: ↑

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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Ha Ha That is great! Glad the butt did not do anything other than waste your time. Still sucks. Good story at least! I have a story I need to type out from Salt Lake City this last time. Ha Ha

Sirscrapntruckalot · Feb 1, 2023

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