Weirdest violation on DOT inspection

If it is a dump truck (straight truck) you are talking about, many states require the license plate to be displayed on the front bumper.

It would be nice if the company, who is so concerned for you safety that they would put a sign on the back of their dump, would put their unit number and phone number there also!

 

A license plate wouldn't last a day on a dump hauling asphalt and dumping it into a spreader. It's hard enough to keep asphalt off all the other pieces on the rear of the truck. Plates would be black and broken off very quickly.

 

Next time you enter the NJTP at any point, look at the NJTP rules/regulations board. I've travelled it for quite a long time and never noticed. Not a 1 second affair when a cop on the side waves you to the side exiting a toll booth onto Rt 1-9.

 

I was waved to the side when exiting the toll booth.

 

Look Bat, and for ronin too...when I tell you something you can bet your life it isn't trucker bullschidt. I've noticed a disturbing trend on here that wasn't here when I joined. Its taken the interest, the fun and commaderie out of coming to the board. I'm through with it.

 

Not calling BS, just trying to figure out what happened so I don't get whacked under some silly rule, too. I can't count the number of times I've been on, through and around the NJTP.

 

General Form and Manner violations and the points that come with it.
To me thats just a catch all rule for mickey mouse crap that dont mean spit in the real world much less fatigue driving.
And I got one because I miss placed a log sheet and after the Insp was over and before I left the scale house I found it and the officer would not change it.

And the time I got a level 1, was asked to turn the head lights on, no problem, now the high beams, no problem, back to low beams and the left low beam goes out, got wrote up for a head light out. He even said "It worked the first time"

 

I can't believe you'd run junk equipment like that. I change my headlights daily, even if I never use them. You can never be too safe.

 

You change your tires on a daily basis as well?

 

Thank God the DOT man caught that headlight mere seconds from when it burned out. No telling how many people would've been killed!!