Posted by 135 Fan on November 15, 2009 at 10:21:00 from (68.149.56.30):
In Reply to: Re: DOT and farmers posted by trucker40 on November 15, 2009 at 09:03:45:
All of your information is second hand. Reading about it or hearing something on the radio and not knowing the whole story doesn't make it the gospel. When dealing with laws and who has jurisdidction, there is no way an article in a magazine, or on the radio, is going to print pages and pages of what the actual laws are. Sometimes you can't avoid the DOT and they can be jerks. Other times it's good they set up road side inspections. I was stopped carrying my tractor behind a 1 ton. One guy asked for my license and reg. While he was looking at it, the other guy was telling me everything with my trailer was good and the tractor was chained down properly. Then the other guy comes over and gives me a $150 ticket because I didn't have a gvw on the side of my truck. I told him when I registered the truck and trailer together, they never told me I need a gvw on the the side. I see lots of guys hauling bigger skid steers and tractors than mine without gvw numbers on their trucks. So yes, I know they can be jerks. In the past they would give you a warning with 24 hours to correct it. I was told later that I could have fought it because the guy was only guessing how much my tractor weighed and for the ticket to hold up, he would have had to weigh the truck and trailer. Some cops are on a power trip but if they have good reason, they can come on your property and arrest you, even if it means they have to come in your house to get you. Dave
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