Posted on 12/31/2011 8:43:00 AM PST by cableguymn
Trucker nailed with a 30,855 dollar over weight fine. did not know the road was weight restricted until it was to late (sign was not visible until he was past the point of no return) while turning around he was stopped by local PD. While being weighed and handed the ticket he watched another truck that was over the limit (road had a 10 ton limit. 18 wheel trucks weigh more than that empty)
Police claim he was not doing a local delivery. He was less than 4 miles from his delivery.
O/O..
While I love the open road.. I also wanted a family. I keep my addiction to the road in check as well as I can doing local dash and backs.
If I am out overnight it’s rare.
I know what you mean. I was a single parent, so overnights were not on my menu. But after the kids left...so did I. That was 20 years ago. lol I don’t like staying out for more than about a week or so. From 2000-2004 I had 4-5 of my trucks run regional, and 2-3 run the road. Regional was pretty much the 4 surrounding States, so out and back was the norm. Plus, too, they had very generous home time, like 3-4 days (lol).
I remember when i was running for Panther you had to know how to play the dispatchers. If they knew you wanted to go home, they would send you in the wrong direction. I am in Minnesota. If I was in Ohio they would send to to Florida.
If you let um, you could end up out months at a time.
Their turn over rate for dispatchers was VERY high, so the trick always worked.. They would call and say “thinking about going home soon?” “NOPE!!”... I’d get a run going with in 200 miles from home.
Oh. heck, that’s most dispatchers. I think they were taught that in Dispatcher 101! I used to tell them, I’m going wherever this truck’s pointing. I really don’t care where that is, whatcha’ got for me? But, I would stay in touch with a few other drivers to find out what the board looked like, so I pretty much knew what all the loads were.
When I wanted/needed to go home, I’d call them and say take me off the board, I’m puttin’ it in the wind. I wouldn’t ever ask. That would be a rookie mistake of huge proportions. lol
I drove over-the-road for years and loved it, but could never make much at it (young and spendy). Truckers nowadays are also being ripped off by the oil companies. In my day, diesel was much cheaper than regular. Now, it’s much more.
Ripped off by the oil companies? Not hardly.
They are being ripped off by the taxing authorities!
taxed for everything they do. didn’t buy enough fuel in a state? tax. Plates? tax. tollway? tax.
How true!
It shouldn’t take a good relationship with the local police, drug cartel, bands of gypsies, mafia, Taliban or PTA to be able to conduct business.
It helps. It not like we give the police a break of stuff. We just let them aware that the trucks are our life blood
It helps. It not like we give the police a break of stuff. We just let them aware that the trucks are our life blood
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