Warning Ticket

I would like to hang tassels on the mirror of the local policeman as a everlasting reminder of the lack of knowledge on his part. //snarky.

I think you did good. Roll on.

 

Did the dot cop make a inspection report?

 

We had a inspection one time with the State Police. While it's not necessarily a oversize one but being a dump truck, loaded with sand and towing a beaver trailer with one paver and one backhoe on it made for a interesting day. The one State Bear pulled me over. He had personality conflict with me even though I have done nothing but be good morning officer, wonderful day isnt it officer, would you want this fresh coffee from that diner officer, here is the truck papers officer.

No. He was in a mood to stomp all over everything. Fine. So be it. ONLY he was not DOT certified to inspect. HA...

He whistled up a Female Bear who was Certified to Inspect. Here the story takes two paths. Maybe you can understand and laugh at me. The first path was it was a very striking pretty officer. Equal to my age believe it or not. When the inspection was all over my crew teased me all day. Driver and State Police Woman sitting in the tree k i s s i n g etc. Tease me all day with sing song childrens tunes about unrequited love and all that.

The other path to inspection was a interesting situation. There was 4 of us involved with the truck, trailer etc. One was the owner of everything. He was standing by one of my Superliner 500 stacks not doing well with that thing in idle. I asked him, you ok? You don't look well. He hissed at me #### and go do something busy with the inspection DO NOT BOTHER HIM. In a manner that makes it clear that I will royally screw something up really bad if I continued to bother him with health questions.

It turned out I had missed a hole in the bottom of that exhaust pipe. And it's big enough to put a deck of cards into and then some. He stood in front of that hole making pleasantries and small talk with the DOT Bear as she passed by as the Angel Gabe-rial must have passed on his quest to make sure that nothing is a stain on this holy ground. //slight sarcasm...

That would have been a instant OOS violations with losses in not only money, fines but also repairs plus no work to be done today. The other dump truck could not be expected to be able to haul all of this to the job site worth 10,000 dollars over two days to build.

I was deeply sorry to see that the State Bear did a good job with a big inspection but there was some deception involved during that event. If she did not see it, we did not go out of our way. However at a later day it was all taken care of. By myself, Mr Mechanic and my foreman under the shade tree with a cart full of parts and bolts. Easy enough.

Disclaimer. This is a true story, condensed for brevity and contains no lunch counter material at all.

 

Somethings gotta be written up huh? Can't just let drivers go anymore can they...(Shaking my head)

I Tell ya.

 

As far as I know in nc and tn only need 4 flags. Front and rear each side at the widest points. That’s all I run and never had a word said to me.