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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
I wonder if this qualifies as DOT approved tie downs.
About 12 foot long sections of iron fence.
Tied down with a loose piece of rope; some bungee cords; and your son hanging out the back window holding them from sliding out.


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Now if that was not bad enough.
Rather than using the surface streets and going slow; He got onto the interstate with this setup.


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The worse part is if you were to ask a DOT officer about things like this most of them would say they have authority to ticket trucks under 10,000 lbs.
 
Vehicle enforcement will tell you they have all the authority of a state police AND the vehicle enforcement. I guess it's okay as long as you can get away with something like this: if something goes bad: ...............
 
I cringed when I saw that kid holding on to it. All i could see was that iron fence sliding out with the kid hanging on to it doing 65 on the road.
 
I know you've seen the 14' jon boat complete with outboard motor sticking out of the turtlehull before, course that was back when they made good old log wagons, never get one in a prius.
 
How about this. My little 4X8 trailer with my yard vac on it. Two big heavy straps and three of the small ones. The load ramps are tied down with a piece of heavt chain. I check the load maybe every 10 or 15 miles just for giggles. Done right nothing moves.
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Jon we had a lot of (and still do) this crap going on around me. The cops started getting on it and it slowed down a lot. There were pickups hauling about 1.5 cords firewood. Small pickup and trailer weighing 30000!!! Unsecure loads of all kinds. Sadly the cops said it was like talking to a brick wall when dealing with the driver. They had a few towed!! Some towns now the town cops looks for this stuff there main attitude is to get it off the road before bad things happen.
 
John,
What should happen and what does happen is usually two different things. We on YT, myself included, would like to see all this crap stopped. However many DOT officers think they have enough fish to fry and only look at commercial loads.

Any cop can be DOT certified in Indiana, yet the local boys say, not my job we have enough fish to catch, so let the DOT boys handle it.

geo
 
X2 on the local cops not wanting to mess with trucks. We had a local scrapper making the town look like a dump. I told the Marshall just to ticket him everytime the wrecker was on the road. Scrapper had private plates and no DOT number on his wrecker, wreckers must have DOT numbers and commercial plates in Indiana.
 
whats really bad is if this joker has a wreck and hurts somebody with his loose load pieces, the news people will report " trucker involved in crash --- hurt", and all the anti truck activists will get noisy, in spite of the fact that every thing they have, even there protest signs came to them on a commercial truck for at least part of its journey , but in this case, in fact no commercial truck was even there
 
I followed a 1 ton truck today. He was carrying aluminum gutters, down spots and some aluminum siding. Nothing was tied down. I kept my distance, thinking some aluminum would fly off. A mile later he pulled into a recycling place a little west of Plainfield on US 40.

Scary to think people don't think about loads falling off.

On more than one occasion I've seen people pulling out of Menards with plywood loaded on a want to be pickup, a short bed truck. They take off fast enough to dump their load on the road. This happens often. I just have to laugh at people trying to haul plywood on a short bed and not securing the load.
 
What's got me confused about all of this Is I hear on immigration the federal government saying only the feds can enforce federal law and if I remember correctly they took a state to court over that statement and won, stopping the state from any enforcement action based on federal law on that subject, so how can a state or local law enforcement officer enforce federal rules from the DOT?
 
Back in my previous life, we were hired to rustproof a home-made trailer for a local contractor. He used mobile-home wheels/axles in a two axle setup with tandems. Each axle had four tires, total of eight tires. He brought the trailer in with his compact Toyota pickup, the small model, not the Tundra. Then proceeded to tell me he built the trailer to tow his Case 450 track loader, WITH that Toyota pickup. I just asked him to let me know when he was headed out, so I could stay home.

Must have been a good trailer, because I have recently seen it on CL for sale, still not too rusty!

https://swmi.craigslist.org/hvo/6081054497.html
 
(quoted from post at 20:29:59 04/22/17) What's got me confused about all of this Is I hear on immigration the federal government saying only the feds can enforce federal law and if I remember correctly they took a state to court over that statement and won, stopping the state from any enforcement action based on federal law on that subject, so how can a state or local law enforcement officer enforce federal rules from the DOT?
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Because you go through extensive training and testing and more training and training and training. Then you get a card that says you can do it. As far as local/State police enforcing immigration law, they don't "enforce it", they hold the suspects until the Fed can get there. Or at least thats how we did it.

As far as the OP and tie down thing, no it's not a CMV so "DOT" can't enforce the Federal Regs. But most states have load securement laws in the books and any cop should be able to take care of that.
 
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