I’ve been seeing local jurisdictions
setting up DOT enforcement units to get money from truckers to make up for a
lack of Federal funding. I want to put together legislation that says
local or
As for vehicle inspections, if you have an annual inspection that is less than 4 months old, you would be exempted from the inspection, unless there is a major noticeable problem. If they do write a vehicle citation, the citation must be dismissed if the violation is corrected within 2 days and reported back to the agency before the initial count date or one month, whichever comes latest.
I believe trucker money is better
spent maintaining their vehicles instead of paying tickets. I would like
to see this nationally. If safety really is the goal, law enforcement
shouldn’t have a problem with this.
I had a delivery to make in Omaha and I needed to be there by 6pm on a Thursday evening. I could then drive about 150 miles into Iowa that night where I had four more deliveries to make the next day. They were each about 50 mile apart and I needed to be to the last one by 2pm, because that was when the forklift operator left for the weekend.
I was stopped for an inspection on the scale just outside of Omaha at about 5pm. As a result, I did not make it to the Omaha delivery by 6pm and had to stay over. I did not get to leave Omaha until almost 9am on Friday morning. Since I could not make it to the last drop by 2pm, I had to pay for a forklift operator to stay late, so I could still pick up my Friday evening load and get home to Wisconsin by Saturday.
On another day, I was delivering a load to Wyoming. I got flagged over for a roadside inspection in South Dakota in the morning. That same afternoon, I got inspected again on a scale about 30 miles from my destination. I showed the inspector the inspection sheet from that morning, but she did another inspection. I was late making the delivery, as they closed before I could get there, and had to stay over until the next day.
These inspectors should be retrained to inspect Wall Street, the banking industry, or to round up illegal immigrants. This would put their attention to detail to good use.