Posted by wisbaker on August 05, 2014 at 14:28:42 from (173.30.33.15):
In Reply to: O/T Truck Drivers posted by 37Chief on August 05, 2014 at 13:30:37:
I agree with the part about rules being to complex and every one interpreting them different. Some of the DOT guys are good, some should be in jail. About 15 years ago I worked at a plant in Western Tennessee. We ran about 20 trucks out of the plant picking up raw material and delivering finished product. Our fleet manager figured out he could put about 15 of his drivers on exempt logs making it much easier for him and the drivers. Things were fine for about a week until we got a DOT officer with an attitude at a scale on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi/Tennessee line. We were entitled to run exempt logs if the truck didn't go more than 150 air miles from the home terminal. The slaughter plant we were servicing was not only with in 150 Air Miles but was also within 150 hub miles, the bozo will still put us out of service for an 8 hour rest period every time he caught one of our trucks at the scale with an exempt log. We'd end up dispatching a driver from Memphis who would drive the truck into Tennessee and turn it back over to the first driver.
Another time a Tennessee DOT officer caught us coming out of Jimmy Dean Sausage in Newbern Tennessee, caught us dead to rights the truck was over weight. He ask the driver what he's hauling (waste & scraps from the sausage plant). Gets all the paper work (registration, driver's license and log book) and goes back to his car, about 5 minutes later he comes back and tells our driver " the regulations give you leeway when your hauling garbage or waste, you're within the allowable leeway so your free to go".
Sometimes we'd be a little rough with them to teach 'em a point. One of the owners was telling us a time he had a truck caught over weight at a scale in Georgia. It was August and it was full of pig offal, and about 1500 pounds over weight, they insisted we reduce the weight to the legal limit before it left the scale. Instead the driver was instructed to drop the trailer. After 2 or 3 days the stench got pretty bad at the scale and the on duty officer allowed that maybe we should just come and get the dam trailer out of there (which we did.
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