(quoted from post at 23:37:45 04/25/13)
(quoted from post at 07:02:21 04/25/13)
(quoted from post at 23:38:16 04/24/13) I get pulled over in a 26000 lb dump every single time I take it out. (gas wells generate law enforcement and in turn, generates capital for townships and state)
I am in a hot bed of law enforcement.
What I can say about this area of PA is that ANY truck without a farm plate is subject to scales and inspection. I am DOT red tagged right now for hauling 27560 gvw in a dump registered at 25000.
If you break a law, regardless of being a farmer, yo are looking at a fine and a mark on your driving record. That is in western PA, in the gas belt. Thankfully my truck is older but in perfect to excellent shape. not a scratch on it. I am subject to 6 month state inspections.
Just don't do anything bad in this part of the world. Don't even look at them funny. If you don't have a name or DOt number on the door, or a puc number, you are going to get pulled over and cuffed while they check your truck.
Stay away from south western pa with a farm truck that doesn't have PA specific farm plates.
It doesn't matter what you are doing. If you have an elevator ticket, they will hit you with commercial fines because they say you are selling grains for commercial profit and you will get bit.
Just avoid this part of the country, you can't win. We are tur ds to the state police. They are city folk who only knowtractors from pictures in books. They stink like pig poo. sour as he ck.
Roscoe P Coltrain days are over around here. Just keep a tub of vasoline in the truck with you. things will go so much easier.
I drove a bobtail road tractor through SW PA two years ago with no plate on it. I was a little apprehensive about driving with no plate and just a photocopy piece of paper on the dash. But I was passed by cops and they weren't interested.
You must have stayed on the highway or you got REAL lucky!
My specific part of the world is such a hot bed, that the local townships and boros all have truck scales and creeper cops. I can't complain, there is money flowing like water.
Regardless, I just started hiring truckers to do my bidding. I won't use my dump for anything unless I can do it very local. It's a shame.
It's one of those things. I used to drive to weirton to get slag for $5 a ton maybe 4 or 5 loads a day. I got bit once, then twice, then 3 times... Then the forth time I had wheat in the truck, no BOL, no scale ticket. They let loose the dogs of war on me.
I'll see them someday. I hope they don't get killed by a car on the highway during a routine traffic stop, but if they do, I'll smirk when I see the headline in the paper.
Treat me like poo, I'll treat them the same. I just hope they get the dollar signs out of their eyes. It is getting absurd.
