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Posted by Allen on October 21, 2003 at 16:19:47 from (64.12.96.236):
Do any of you guys that cart your old tracors around ever get bothered by the DOT? I've been driving semi for years so I'm used to all that stuff but today I got pulled over for a random road side check, nothing out of the usual, portable scale check, level 2 inspection, etc. Anyway they grabbed some poor unfortunate with a pickup truck with a trailer in tow carrying some concrete forms, did not look overloaded, but they weighed this guy and shut him down, too heavy. Nothing written on the truck, just a plain pick up and small trailer. I've often considered getting a small trailer to cart my tractor around but now I think I'll just ask the boss to use the lowbed, it's permitted to 130,000. Now they're after pick up trucks, what next.
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