[RollinStudio]

Ive been considerbly lucky, but only have a years experience. Please post how yogi da bear raided your picnic basket :shock:

[Jackrabbit379]

Well, I havent had DOT pull me over, but maybe a couple of times. A while back, I had a DOT pickup pull me over. Right outside of town, havent even hardly got started yet. He looked over my DVIR, and log book. We walked around the truck. He looked at my air lines on the truck, and both trailers. Ya know how those pig tails are so long? Well, he looked at the truck pig tail, and there was a place that was starting to wear, due to the pig tail rubbing the catwalk. He wrote me up on that, because it was supposed to be hanging free, and not touching the catwalk. I sent in the report, but we just adjusted the pig tail, and braided it into the air lines even more than it already was.

There was one time, several years ago up in Kansas. I was pulling a combine, on wheat harvest. We pulled into the chicken coop in Liberal. All of us where outside talking to the DOT man. He got out his tape measure, and he measured from the front bumber of the truck, to the back of the combine. Wade, one of the owners, was telling me to step forward, when the DOT man was looking down to see where the front bumber of the truck was. :P Of course, the truck/trailer wasnt too long, but it was funny watching the DOT man, keep asking me if I was standing right there at the back of the combine.

[RollinStudio]

haha, thanks for sharing. Let this topic be something for all the newb's and soon to be drivers to look at. I had a full inspection once(Ohio) and it lasted for about 1hr and a half, caused me to be late to my drop. But the company I worked for got cited a ticket for the reg. being expired for the trl. I picked up in N.Y.

[btinc]

Joplin Mo scales, I came out of Ca with 15k on the wagon, went across the Calif scales, Arizona, new Mexico. I enter the Joplin scale, red light, driver pull around to the side bring in your paper work. I walk in he tells me I'm 1500 over on my trailer axles. I say no way in hell, i need to see it for myself, he tells me he does not have to show me anything OK, give me the ticket. Writes the ticket and says i have to go about 20 miles into town and pay it before i can leave. He tells me we have another problem, your medical card is not on file in your home state, so you can't drive the truck to pay the ticket, and they close at 5 and it's 3pm now on a Friday. So now my truck is on the side of the building and he says move it down to end of lot with the other out of service trucks, so i move it and I walk back to use the pay phone and call a cab and a trooper has his ticket book out and says you move a commercial vehicle without being qualified, I'm going to have to give you a ticket and i tell him he will have to take me to jail I'm not signing that one, i was given orders to move the truck. OK, i will give you a written warning. Now i got to get on the phone get my medical straight with my home state and get this ticket paid by 5 or I'm sitting for the weekend. I get a driver that is out of service to drive my truck and I down to pay the ticket. I get back show proof of paying the ticket, and i asked the scale master do i need to cross the scale or can i take the bypass, he said the bypass,mind you i have not done any adjusting on the trailer. Pissed off i head across the bypass and up to the petro, i park and i guys waving the cb mike cord so i turn on my radio and they say the scale house is looking for you. Then 2 state troopers show up and say that i did not cross the scales and escort me back to the scale. Just a rotten day, and i have never crossed that scale again.

[Orangetxguy]

Joplin Mo scales, I came out of Ca with 15k on the wagon, went across the Calif scales, Arizona, new Mexico. I enter the Joplin scale, red light, driver pull around to the side bring in your paper work. I walk in he tells me I'm 1500 over on my trailer axles. I say no way in hell, i need to see it for myself, he tells me he does not have to show me anything OK, give me the ticket. Writes the ticket and says i have to go about 20 miles into town and pay it before i can leave. He tells me we have another problem, your medical card is not on file in your home state, so you can't drive the truck to pay the ticket, and they close at 5 and it's 3pm now on a Friday. So now my truck is on the side of the building and he says move it down to end of lot with the other out of service trucks, so i move it and I walk back to use the pay phone and call a cab and a trooper has his ticket book out and says you move a commercial vehicle without being qualified, I'm going to have to give you a ticket and i tell him he will have to take me to jail I'm not signing that one, i was given orders to move the truck. OK, i will give you a written warning. Now i got to get on the phone get my medical straight with my home state and get this ticket paid by 5 or I'm sitting for the weekend. I get a driver that is out of service to drive my truck and I down to pay the ticket. I get back show proof of paying the ticket, and i asked the scale master do i need to cross the scale or can i take the bypass, he said the bypass,mind you i have not done any adjusting on the trailer. Pissed off i head across the bypass and up to the petro, i park and i guys waving the cb mike cord so i turn on my radio and they say the scale house is looking for you. Then 2 state troopers show up and say that i did not cross the scales and escort me back to the scale. Just a rotten day, and i have never crossed that scale again.


Well...how much experience did you have behind the wheel, when that scene played out at Joplin??

Myself, I have never heard of your "Med-card" being registered at your home state. Nor have I ever filled out paperwork for a med-card to be registered.

I'm thinking a Scale-master was playing games...and got away with it.

As far as my knowledge of the med-card goes, if you pay for the physical, then you need to have the original long form available at your home, while your employer has a copy of it on file at the terminal to which you are assigned. When the employer pay's for the physical...which is how it should always be, as far as I am concerned, then said employer needs it filed at home terminal.

my .002

[tootie04]

Here is one for ya....Washington state just south of Tacoma. I was sick and had to puke so Bo pulls over to the side of I-5 right in front of the scale sign. I do my thing and a few min later we proceed down the road. We noticed while sitting in front of the scale sign that it went closed for like 2 min then open again....we really didnt think to much about it.

We pull into the scales and there are 2 DOT and some guy in a suit pointing at our truck....This big DOT officer comes over and steps up on the drivers side of the truck (always lock your doors in the scales) Bo rolls down the window and this guy SCREAMS at him drill sergent style wanting to know WHY we were parked in front of HIS scale sign!! He says we were waiting for the sign to go out so we could pass HIS scales and not have to come in....He says give me your log book NOW!! So Bo gives him the log book (which was legal) and he take it inside....meanwhile we park the truck. I am feeling sick again... so we go inside and try to explain to the arshole that i was sick....he going yeah right blah blah blah...so I ask him where the bathroom is...he ignores me. I ask him again cause I am gonna be sick again....still ignores me (he is checking the log book) So I threw up all over HIS floor 8) THEN he believes us and tries the "I'm so sorry" bit. He give the log book back and says have a nice day....Yeah right.

I didnt bother to offer to clean it up either....I was so sick that day. But he was a REAL butt head.

tootie

[Orangetxguy]

The scale-dudes and dudettes at Nisqually can be like that..especially when they are doing a training session.

[millersod215]

Well i've been pulled over by the "man" twice in the last year. I'm a sod hauler down here in florida and they like to get us, as often as possible, becasue quite honestly we're an easy target. They usually know there's a good possibility of being overweight, i've racked up 1100 dollars worth of tickets just between the two tickets, and for the company as a whole i would say we've received atleast 5000 dollars in tickets within the last year. Sod is just one of those things that the DOT down here in Florida keeps an eye for, i think the only guys pressured worse than us are the rock haulers down here, but anyway, all in a days work.

[uglymutt]

Oregon DOT, enough said.

[btinc]

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

Well...how much experience did you have behind the wheel, when that scene played out at Joplin??

At that time i had been driving for 13 years.

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

Myself, I have never heard of your "Med-card" being registered at your home state. Nor have I ever filled out paperwork for a med-card to be registered.

Each states does this a little differently than others, but when you take a DOT physical, the doctors office or where ever you took the physical will forward it to the your states DMV. Here in CA now, you have to walk it in to the DMV yourself.



I

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

'm thinking a Scale-master was playing games...and got away with it.

Yes he was and they did, cost me 34 dollars

Originally Posted by Orangetxguy

As far as my knowledge of the med-card goes, if you pay for the physical, then you need to have the original long form available at your home, while your employer has a copy of it on file at the terminal to which you are assigned. When the employer pay's for the physical...which is how it should always be, as far as I am concerned, then said employer needs it filed at home terminal.

my .002

Does not matter who pays for the physical, the employer keeps a copy in the drivers qualification file, and a driver can keep copy for himself. I'm in my 16 year of having my own authority and your physical is on file with your state dmv. Anyone can download the forms and a medical card, but when a officer runs your license that will tell them if you have a valid med certificate. All DOT physicals papers have to have the Doctors office rubber stamp on before it will be accepted.