72 Hour Safety Check Starts Tomorrow .

They give ya a nice pretty dot seal and also sign ur bills with badge number name and station code.

the states I've seen so far with full blown insp.

pa nj oh in

Wait a minute. They gave you a ticket for not having a load lock? I never heard of that in my life. I mean, if the load had smashed through the doors and was laying on the highway I'd say, "Yeah, maybe I should have secured that." But I never used load locks unless they were clearly needed and I honestly never knew that by law you had to have one.

That's like one time I was driving through Kentucky and they were getting a rare snowfall. There was like 3 inches on the ground and almost nobody was on the road. Myself and another truck were going along at maybe 50 mph because the roads hadn't been plowed, but it was no problem at all - especially considering I grew up outside of Buffalo, NY and I've driven in snow a time or two.

Well I get pulled over and I get a ticket for too fast for conditions. I told the guy, "First of all, I was safely cruising down the highway without any problems. If I had gone off in a ditch or was swerving and sliding, I would understand. But I was 100% under control."

He says, "You shouldn't be driving those speeds in snow like this."

Well, he had already written the ticket so I wasn't worried about trying to get out of anything and I told him, "No, maybe you shouldn't be driving those speeds in the snow because you don't know what you're doing. I grew up in an area that literally gets this much snow in October or May sometimes. We hardly have less than a foot or two on the ground 5 months out of the year."

I tried fighting the ticket but they wouldn't reduce it. Never made an ounce of sense to me.

Brett,

I didn't get a ticket. But, it was listed as a violation on my Level I. Also, based on the BLUE CSA Handbook, I get points on my CSA score. Also, since he listed it as a OOS , I get two additional points on my CSA before the multiplier. Severity = 7, plus 2 for OOS, times 3, because it is in the last 12 months = 27.

This is the second time I had a PORK load shift on me. I don't know what it is about pork. Maybe they put the load in the middle of the trailer, or something.

Dave

By OOS , do you mean "out of service"? You weren't placed out of service for anything on that inspection, were you?

By OOS , do you mean "out of service"? You weren't placed out of service for anything on that inspection, were you?

I was, but I fixed it on the spot. It is still listed as Out Of Service, but I corrected the problem, and was allowed to leave.

Dave

Yes an unsecured load will effect your score. Load Securement is one of the basics that is judge by the DOT.

Oos for a fixable issue wth happened to the fix it tickets did they take away those lil pink slips that say repair ticket on it and explains the issue needing fixed it kinda looks like a warning slip.i got one in co for no registration on trlr once was a funny issue really bc the guy who had the trl before me grabbed a dropped ld and took the reg.with the pprwrk for the ld he thought it was the pprwrk.i got the slip had to drop trl in the dot scale lot then bobtail 2 mi to a t/a and get the reg. faxed to me,i went back and showed it to them they said ok fixed have a good day driver and sent me on my way.

During that 72 hr period, I was driving from Memphis South into Mississippi, West into Arkansas, South into Louisiana and West and South to Houston, TX and only encountered one active Inspection Site which was just South of Memphis. All trucks had to exit and cross the scales, most were being given the green light (including me) to proceed, but as I moved past there were probably a dozen or more trucks off to the side that were being subjected to full inspections.