Re: Why Farm truck are getting DOT inspected more!!!

Posted by wisbaker on January 20, 2013 at 15:42:44 from (206.72.42.249):

In Reply to: Why Farm truck are getting DOT inspected more!!! posted by JD Seller on January 20, 2013 at 08:14:05:

A few thought on the subject, yes there are some junk trucks on the road that shouldn't be and when they decide to use the public roads they are endangering me, my family and anyone else using the road, that ain't right. If you're going the run on public roads you need to be legal. Maybe we should change the criminal and civil liability laws so if you decide to run your under-maintained uninsured truck on the highway and kill my kids you go to jail and I get ALL your stuff period. Sounds good but that in itself opens up potential for abuse.

Some people have the same problem with vehicle maintenance and insurance we have with health care, there is other stuff they'd rather spend their money on. The challenge is to make the cost of non-compliance high enough that they adjust their own risk-benefit curve.

Yes there are some DOT/Compliance officers that are MLBH (Major League B____ Holes), The laws should be changed so they and the Sheriff, County or State get to pay damages if they are not acting in a professional manner, this also means the laws need to be changed so officials can get rid of the bad apples without paying six figure damages. Example the DOT officer that kept putting us out of service at the Mississippi/Tennessee line because he didn't like/understand exempt logs should maybe have to pay for the time the truck sat at the scale, and if his salary wasn't enough to cover the damages let the citizens of Mississippi rent our truck. I also think that if they ticket or fine someone that person should have the right to a trial and if the driver wins the case the state/county/city that issued the citation should have to PAY the fine and the officer maybe even gets the points on their license This would also require our legal system be modified to allow challenges to stupid laws allowing laws to be thrown out for un-effectiveness or failure to achieve the stated goal.

The focus on law enforcement needs to be shifted away from profit/revenue, that's going to require we get off our half moons during the election cycle and elect individuals that have OUR interests has their priority. How do we do this without creating a bigger bureaucracy? Don't really know, and the laws of adversarial relationships or interactions won't make it easy.

As far as some of the stupid rules and other examples of abuse mentioned, hey when you get government involved that's what you get. Remember government is usually not responsible and the folks we elect do a pretty good job of keeping it that way. Again the only way to correct is to petition the government OR elect individuals that will act to create responsible government. Again if it's stupid inform your representative or senator and don't give them any quarter if it's stupid they fix it OR you insure they don't get re-elected.

I agree with several of the posters in that most farmers would be best off hiring their hauling out and if they were really good they may find out they could improve their product marketing by using haulers to get their product to new and more lucrative markets.

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