Then why do we hear horror stories of truckers being fined heavily and put OOS because some empty holes in the frame of their truck were not filled with bolts? If they're not looking at the little details, such things would not happen.
The way you talk, I should be able to park my skidsteer on my trailer with no chains or straps and head on down the road. Truck and trailer have the load capacity, so what's the problem? They don't look at the little details right? Baloney! The right DOT officer is going to put me OOS because I used two chains instead of four, one on each corner. The next is going to put me OOS because I used a strap on the bucket and not a chain. You just never know what the DOT officer is going to nit-pick on any given day. You can do things a perfectly valid and safe way for decades, and all of a sudden one day a DOT officer will tell you you're doing it wrong, write a ticket, and put you OOS. I read first-hand accounts of this ALL THE TIME.
So your assertion that DOT isn't looking at the details is bogus.
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