[yoopr]

Originally Posted by Windwalker

Asks for my log book, and as he's opening it, he asks "How are you doing?"

Well, I figured I was doing all right, but I expect you could correct me...

Shoulders start bouncing, grin spreads, he closes log book and hands it back. "Have a safe trip."

Shoulders still bouncing as he walks back into the scale house.

It must have been just the right thing at the right time to tickle his "funny-bone".

My point exactly plus a Military Class on Escape and Evasion is a Plus :P

[mundaka]

Yep, only the chatty DOT official I met up with was ah . . . shall we say, light in his loafers? Still considering his gender options? A confirmed bachelor? After 15 minutes of attempting to send NO SIGNAL AT ALL to his barrage of fluttering eyelashes and overt come ons, our boy in uniform got the hint and huffily found a reason to write me a ticket. Hell hath no wrath . . .

[aintgotone]

I was comming down I95 in Maryland on afternoon and got pulled into the scale for inspection. I went around back and the officer started talking to me. The conversation got on his exwife somehow. I sat inside the barn with him for almost two hours listening to him talk about his problems. I finally told him I had to go I wanted to get home. He let me go without inspecting me.

i'll take a chatty inspector anytime--even if it costs me some time.

I ran hot once(i used to run hot all the time) and got pulled into the garage and he was looking at my book real carefully and i was SWEATING. I think i ran all the way from champaign, ill or something to baltimore in one shot! And i had to fuel 4 times! I wonder how he DIDN'T catch that i only had two 50 gallon tanks!!! Like i said, i WAS SWEATING BIG TIME.

Then he starts bitching about how the state won't spend enough money to do things right---he couldn't read my book well and was complaining about the lack of light.

i plan on running hot again so i need as many chatters as possible.

More later.

[yoopr]

and wipe the sleep outta my eye, with my middle finger.

Uh huh-Sure you do road dog-Tell it to the Newbies

[460 cummins]

had a d.o.t. pull me over last night, got on the scale 82,320 :shock: the d.o.t. says sir, please pull off the scales, alright, he says let me see your weght slip from were you came from, i gave it too him "well your slip says you got 72,354, i said why, am i over weight, he says yea, overweight is a understatement, your wayyyyy over, so after an hour or so of hustle and bustle, he says well we cant really do anything, your slip says you got 72354, i must admit, getting layed over till this morning till i could dump sucked, and my wife was pissed when i got home, im just lucky i didnt get in alotta trouble, anyone ever get overloaded, what doi they do, this is the firstt time its happened to me

alls i know is the cummins still went like a pack of wolves, :wink:

[daycab]

Inside a scale in Wisconsin I asked a couple of questions about the Ruger the officer was carrying. Specifically, what caliber (9mm) and what he thought of the gun in general. He pulled and unloaded it, and field stripped it on the counter to show me what he disliked about it.
He then told me they were getting new Glocks (I believe) and the new ones were to be 9mm too because the women cops had trouble with the .40s.
Got to talking more about guns and then he pretty much sent me on my way without looking too closely at anything.

[tweety bird]

I don't usually have DOT problems but I have been looking for DOT info online (which is how I found this board, actually...). There really isn't a whole lot of trucker info... well, at least, not info we truckers can use. I found this site:Weigh Station Information, which has some interesting information but other than that it's all HOS regs or trucker tales or nothing that you were looking for.

There is a lady at the Ashland OR scalehouse who is chatty- I called up ther one night to ask a questions and I couldn't hardly get off the phone! I just wanted to make sure my paperwork was right and that they'd let me pass without a hassle and she told me all kinds of stuff I didn't need to know- even how to get around the scale even though you aren't really supposed to (but that they don't have the manpower to catch you 9 times out of 10). HELLO! What is THAT?

[tweety bird]

I also got an overweight ticket in Florida at the Pensacola eastbound scale (they gave me the routing through Pensacola around the bridge...) and the officers there were very nice and professional. They were very informative, as well -not A-holes like you might expect.

[yoopr]

Originally Posted by Uturn2001

For a change of pace I ran up 287 one night from Ft Collins to Laramie to catch I 80 coming out of Denver. When I got to the scale house it was open (about 2 am local) and got pulled in for a level 3 inspection. Ended up spending about 45 minutes there talking to the officer on duty. In the end was given a good job, have a great night and sent on my way.

I-80 doesn't come out of Denver-76/25/and 70 do though :P