Mississippi DOT

[Ares310]

Anyone have any experiences with Mississippi DOT officers?

[got mud?]

Anyone have any experiences with Mississippi DOT officers?

just one. checked my logs and saw that I wasn't caught to the last change of status. told me to catch it up and drive safe. real nice guy but talked real s-l-o-w lol guess thats cause I grew up in NH and I can't get the Yankee out of me!

[Ridge Runner]

Anyone have any experiences with Mississippi DOT officers?

Yea! If you drive right by their OPEN scale house, they will come and get you and make you go back. :shock:

They're not real happy about it either. :wink:

[tahawus]

Got logs checked at the olive branch scale. He was very nice

[Skywalker]

Never had a problem in MS.....been crossing through there for a long time now.... I've stopped and talked to them a time or two...to get information and they were rather helpful. Nice folks...at least the ones I spoke with were.

[thebaldeagle655]

Pulled into the weigh station in Vicksburg, 10 minutes after the legal sunset with a permit load. Thought I had until 30 after sunset, in Ms it's 30 BEFORE, DOT officer very nicely suggested that I park the trailer at the end of the parking area, dolly down and go visit Vicksburg for supper. Recommended a couple good places to eat and let me know that he would be there all night, no one would be able to mess with my load.

[marcel27208]

west bound vicksburg scale.... i had and ifta sticker on my truck but i didnt have an updated copy of permit.....they were pretty cool about it, even though i was fined 20bucks plus a 7.95 fee for using a debit card.

[Ares310]

Good to hear nobody has had any trouble with them. I'm thinking of applying with them next time they are hiring. What advice would yall have for a newbie DOT Officer?

real nice guy but talked real s-l-o-w

Welcome to the south haha... :P

[DaveP]

Can't remember which scale it was now but, hit it about 2am one morning and I guess I missed the closed sign.

As I pulled onto the scale I notices the scalemaster was standing in the door, propping it open with her foot while she smoked (looked 60ish).

I stopped, she stepped farther out and YELLED..."GIT OFFA MAH SCALE....CAN'T EWE SEE AH'M SMOKIN!"

:shock: yes, ma'am :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:

[tweety bird]

Just remember to be nice to the truckers. After all, we've been nice to you!

Mississippi Weigh Station Info

[trans3]

MS had a dot check in one of the rest areas on 10 west 8 years ago. Said brakes were out of adjustment, but if I gave him a pair of my calfskin gloves I could fix them, get an ifta sticker and go on my way. NO PROBLEM SIR.

[ct77]

Hard to believe but If I am gonna be inspected, please let it be in MS. Very professional and friendly, truly make you feel that they are also there for you and your safety

[Fancy_Maneuvers]

It's funny that Mississippi is the state in question here
I have PrePass and as I hardly get pulled over (and have to get out and go in), whenever I do it's in MS! Twice, at the same station on I-20 W just outside Vicksburg, months apart, the officer just wanted to make sure I wasn't a kid driving the truck, "We just wanted to see who was in there..."
On US 82 E the officer was sure I hadn't done something right on my logs and I was prepared to DEFEND them but while he was trying to get the other officer's attention, I *did* notice that I had NOT written in my pretrip inspection for that day (I had started not long before this). It was masked because I go into the sleeper overnight and then go off duty for an hour or two while I get dressed and do my OCD cleaning ritual At that point, I changed my entire expression and began to pray that he would continue overlooking it. Someone told me later that the pretrip isn't required if you do a posttrip, but WHATEVER I do my pretrip every morning! If the officer went back 7 days, he would see that I do one and not the other... I got out of there unscathed thankfully and make sure now that I don't "forget"...
Also, now that I think about it, I have been pulled over AND had to get out at EVERY scale in MS EXCEPT for the ones EB/WB on I-20 near Alabama... And I've never received a ticket Well, at least they're doing something, right?

[Templedawg]

Go through MS daily. Never had a problem. Got a level 1 inspection while hauling hazmat on the Lucedale scale on hwy 98, back in March. Very polite, no violations. I think driver attitude goes a long way as to how the DOT officer is. I've had plenty of tickets in alot of states for overweight. Most of the time they are cutting up with you when you are in there if you just laugh about it. If you are over gross, MS will turn you around. We have had plenty of drivers turned around. IN LTL, it seems like overweight tickets are part of the norm. If you run legal and aren't Billy Big Rigger to the officer, they will treat you with the same respect.

[GMAN]

Most DOT officers will treat you with the same respect that you show them. If you approach them with a good attitude it is likely to be reciprocated. A bad attitude will also be reciprocated.