hatcity Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Well, The State of Florida disbanded the actual DOT and made all FHP DOT "certified"She was sitting at the landfill and pulled me over. Get my reg. and insurance papers, reaching to get my wallet for License and med card.She asks "Do you have an updated insurance form?. this one expired on 12/14"Me-"HUH?""Oh wait, we aint into December yet. Nevermind"Truck was facing the morning sun and she is trying to figure out if the cab lites were on.then she gigged me for two tires low on tread Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Sounds like our new DMV guys. Heard some stories. One pulled over one of our trucks. Driver saw him going the other way and he did a U turn and pulled him over. Says "you look a bit overloaded" so the driver told him to look at the ticket sitting on the seat and that the permit is in the folder behind it. Didnt ask for anything else. Didn't care if it was insured or registered. Just thought it was a bit overloaded. When he was happy with that he says "im a new old guy" and starts laughing and walks away. State Police on the other hand.... Had one tell us our truck wasn't within its inspection. On the inspection sticker it says "Date completed" he couldn't get that through his mind that the inspection was just completed and still good. Trying to explain that to the prosecutor was even worse. Wanted us to the bring the door of the truck in so he could say it even thought he brought a sample sticker. Its getting worse with these town cops trying to be truck inspectors now too. They try to write tickets for legal stuff. 1 Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 WTF sitting at the land fill? That's just wrong...Makes it that much harded to be self employed....Good luck Ed! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 yeah these damn troopers are worse then the old dot bears use to be 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I hope they don't do that in this crooked state of Illinois. It's bad enough all the local cops can pull you over and claimthat you "look heavy" (duh, of course it's heavy, its a truck) but I don't think a truck could make it through N. ILL withoutgetting pulled over 15 times a day for some money raising infraction. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 she just told me get the tires fixed.Forgot- she saw the fire "stinguisher then axed-yes she said that- where da box is?Da box, da box thingI showed her my lunch box, then slid it up so she could see the box of triangles. its empty, but she don't know"Aint nobody got time fo dat" Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marcel67 Posted August 11, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2014 Welcome to the new world of the DOT in florida. Since they can stop now commercial vehicles there going bananas. This is what was parked today in front my office. I guess his printer overheated and cot fire when he printed all the bullshit citations. We'll I guess this troopers car is OUT OFF SERVICE!!! 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 guess the world will never run out of idiot inspector stories...bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel67 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Lmao cost $650 in citations from deputy drooper. Still fighting it. But the stories are entertaining Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gearhead204 Posted August 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2014 story reminds me of one a buddy told me over in Ellensburg Wa. the w.s.p. lets the new guys work I-90 , well a new commercial enforcement officer wrote up a local logger for no slack adjusters, and no s - cams on three axles the driver kept telling the guy it has wedge brakes but he would not hear It, made them low bed it down the road! Well the good ole boys had enough of this idiot in a week so they bought him a cemetery plot, well the cemetery district sent him a notice of a paid plot and he couldn't get out of town fast enough. The Kittitas co. log truckers know how to getter done! 7 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 WTF sitting at the land fill? That's just wrong...Makes it that much harded to be self employed....Good luck Ed!I bring my recycling to the landfill on most Mondays. They're set up there at least once every 2 months or so. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joe Ditchkus Posted August 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 12, 2014 At Keystone Landfill Dunmore,Pa. DOT sets up there at least 3-4 times a week. There is a PennDot Salt Shed next to landfill so they have no problems finding room for inspection area or portables.Pa. started allowing local cops to be DOT certified inspectors they walk around like the Gestapo with their boots and trousers tucked in. Joe D. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdog2 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Going back several years ago I got stop by a DMV Sargent and he gave me and my unit 1.25 hr inspection on my 1978 Mack and my 1970 Fruehauf trailer dump after all that he ask who does my work .But said I Didn't have enough side reflective tape ,I told him the company I last work for was Gulf oil you should of seen the look on his face he said I put 3 of their units OOS and he told them pump them off for loose coupler bolts . Wile waiting for my paper work I .ask him if he did a inspection on state Expedition because he was missing a valve cap on his front tire ,I told him gulf don't need mech. any more they seem it was smart move .$$$ Quote Ed Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryS Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 We have a newly built scale near the Prince William County, VA landfill just off Rt 234. Mostly the state troopers (now and then the county) pull the trucks over and bring them to the scale for weigt and inspection. They are equal opportunity, I have seen everything from refuse haulers to pickups with a cube of bricks. Their favorites seen to be the F 550s loaded down pulling a trailed piece of equipment. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hicrop10 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Joe,i know right where the Keystone landfill is.We worked on a section of the Casey ByPass north of Scranton.I always had good luck when i got pulled over by the state troopers,it was always the local cops that would kill me. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-255970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ditchkus Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Mike I worked on different sections of the Casey By-pass late 90'S. I was also in your area a few years before that on the Blue Route working for some names you know Kiewit and Lane Construction.Joe D. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 It was a local township cop that wrote me that $6,000 overweight ticket in Pa. Just sitting there on that short section of road that had a ten ton weight limit. Had the portables with him too. It's all about the money.Had a state DOT ociffer pull me over in Bedford,Va. last week. He checked my paperwork and didn't find any violations, but he had that a-hole attitude like "I know you're a criminal,because you're driving this truck- I just don't know what you're guilty of yet". It's all about the money- they see a truck, they see dollar signs. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hey Bill how'd you ever make out with that, anyways??? Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Hey Bill how'd you ever make out with that, anyways???Todd and Jeff Moore drove all the way to Evans City to go to court, I parked the truck at a rest area on 79 and rode with them. Long story short, after the main defense argument failed, Todd told them he was looking for any leniency he could get, and they reduced the fine from $6,357.00 to $1,800 and something. So it was well worth a 400 mile drive in the Navigator to save $4,000. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Shoulda left the Navigator at my house and piled into my Ford Focus for the ride up. They might have written you a check if they saw that. 2 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Maddog13407 Posted August 16, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 16, 2014 seems to be asshole cops everywhere in every small town now a days hawkin around every corner. I like the new town cops that drive by my house 200 times a day and give me the stink eye for having a beer on my front porch but seem to miss the countless idiots driving down my street doing 50 in a 30 tho at all hours of the day. I do agree they need to pull over a few more of these super truckers in their dodges and ford super dutys tryin to be billy big riggers moving trailers and big dozers on them. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36659-floridas-finest/#findComment-256157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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