dot inspection
#11
12-22-2007, 01:33 AM
Originally Posted by Uturn2001
DOT isn't supposed to be doing a scale and inspection at the same time on a truck.
It is very common for trucks to be weighed and then pulled around back to the inspection area for a level 1,2 or 3 inspection. Folks the number one reason why you will often see a "cop" giving a DOT inspection behind the scale house in some states is simply that those states do not employ stationary inspectors. Instead they rotate through their rolling/roadside inspectors at a station and all their epuipment is kept in the car. Also if you take a real good look at the scale houses you see this happen at they are the ones that do not have a separate inspection lane or barn. The car is there with lights on to keep the inspector from being run over by some inattentive moron.
#12
12-23-2007, 06:01 AM
UTurn, it is a courtesy amongst the trucking companies and DOT that they don't do both at the same time. Also, try Comprehension 101, you blew right past what I said and stated exactly what I had already said again. They scale you, then ask you to pull around back, which is the loophole for not doing them together, aka:
Happens here all the time. The local yokel DOT man will do the inspections while the big boys do the portable scale less than a half mile later.
#13
12-23-2007, 01:22 PM
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Mr. Ford:
You wrote:
DOT isn't supposed to be doing a scale and inspection at the same time on a truck. To get around that they will scale you, tell you to move on down the road and as you pull away, another DOT man will stop you not 10 feet from the scales and do an inspection.
I merely pointed out, your statement as written, is not accurate. More often than not an inspection is going to be done on the scale house premises, not down the road, even 10 feet. Of course the DOT is not going to have you sit on a permanent scale for 30 plus minutes while they perform a vehicle and/or driver inspection. They will have you move to a designated location for that if this is their desire. As far as portables and "roadside" inspections go I have seen plenty done at the same time in various locations from the actual side of the road to rest areas to industrial parks, and in some of these instances the truck was left sitting on the portable scales once the last set of axles were weighed. You may have meant one thing, but you wrote another.
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