tying down a tractor

MikeinKy · Apr 7, 2015

I didn't want to hyjack the previous post, I did put in a comment. I used to haul machinery every day for a living. If you are very far from home, you need to bone up on the law. More than once when stopped for an inspection, I have had to pull out my USDOT rule book and show the officer what the law said. They all don't know the rules. I once was told that this is the way we interpret it. I told him I thought his job was to enforce the letter, not to interpret it. I lost anyway, he found something else to ticket me for. I have asked two officers the same question and gotten two different answers.

tim s · Apr 7, 2015

It is shameful the way they deal with us in the road, it's near like going into another country when you cross state lines, and they will find something wrong no matter how well you have it all together, they are the same as the out law Highway men were in old days, the more it looks like you have the stronger they pinch you, and you are "guilty" till you can prove you are not...

old · Apr 7, 2015

Ya back when I was still driving truck if you got pulled over by D.O.T. you stood a 99% chance of getting a ticket no matter what and even if your truck only had 25 miles on it. Still remember one time when they tried to get me for no seat belt and I told them sorry this truck did not come with them so you can not make me wear one. 1963 Diamond-T

fixerupper · Apr 7, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:32:57 04/07/15) It is shameful the way they deal with us in the road, it's near like going into another country when you cross state lines, and they will find something wrong no matter how well you have it all together, they are the same as the out law Highway men were in old days, the more it looks like you have the stronger they pinch you, and you are "guilty" till you can prove you are not...

When I was hauling combines for the harvest it was less nerve wracking crossing the U.S. Canadian border than it was going through a scale here in the US. If I had everything up to snuff at the border i went right through, it took an hour but the paperwork was handled professionally. They followed protocol and didn't try to act like they were getting revenge on me for something someone else did. At a scale I never knew what kind of mood they would be in.

David G · Apr 7, 2015

It is like that when I come home to my wife.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 7, 2015

The last people I drove truck for had the trucks registered in Indiana and Illinois, it drove the DOT mad when I would show them it was legal to have the truck registered in two different states.

DENNIS MIN · Apr 7, 2015

David G,

I musta married your sister.

D.

DENNIS MIN · Apr 7, 2015

Made that comment in the incorrect place, sorry all.

David G, hope you see this.

D.

D beatty · Apr 7, 2015

I drove for the same company for 38 years and we covered 4 states and I never had any problems with DOT. The 4 or 5 times I that got tickets it was on the scales and I was over loaded on drive axle.I may have went through 12 DOT vehicle inspections in the 38 years and put out of service once. I firgured it out early on that if you got stopped don't get out of the truck with a cocky or smart azz attitude because if you did you could count them going over the truck like a fine tooth comb looling for something.

showcrop · Apr 7, 2015

In the two years that I had my truck I got just one full inspection. after about 45 min. The inspector was so happy with the condition of my truck that he told me that I was getting a sticker! Then as he was finishing up he noticed a broken weld. It twas pretty much insignificant, but he told me that he was going to write it up. but he still gave me my sticker.

NEKS · Apr 7, 2015

A friend moved to Kansas from Oregon a while back. Went to the get a Kansas driver license (CDL) and he could not get it till he brought them his birth certificate or passport. Us Kansans don't trust you Oregon folks I guess.

David G · Apr 7, 2015

Goose · Apr 7, 2015

Our daughter moved from Virginia to Omaha last summer. Nebraska wouldn't recognize her Virginia driver's license as a valid form of ID. She had to get a copy of her birth certificate to get a Nebraska driver's license. Go figure.

When I got out of the Marine Corps more years ago than I want to admit to, I went to get a Nebraska driver's license. The examiner asked me if I had a current license. As it happened, I had a valid North Carolina driver's license, and expired Nebraska license, several government driver's licenses, including a semi truck license with a nuclear materials endorsement, etc.

The examiner leafed through the stack and said, "I guess you know how to drive".

Michael V (NM) · Apr 7, 2015

here in good ole New Mexico, if your just renewing a CDL you got to bring birth cert, current health card, social security card, 2 proof of address, and I'm prolly leaving something out, this is just to renew a current valid CDL

Bernie/MA · Apr 8, 2015

I farmed years ago with a JD 420 crawler, all tillage. I moved it on my truck from field to field a lot. Got sick of chaining it and welded a hitch hole to the headboard. I"d back onto the truck, reach behind me and drop the pin into the hole. Done. Only went a few miles at a time and never got stopped.

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