Funny Dmv Or Trooper Stops

[rsmartyn]

There's a topic Thad started about CDL licenses where I posted a funny NJ DMV stop that happened to me a few years ago and I thought that that could be a good topic on it's own. I have 3 memorable ones that were good but I bet there's plenty of stories out there better than mine. So repeating that post here goes. About 4 years ago I was pulled over at a NJ DMV smoke check stop with the DM686. The trooper there took my paperwork while a Pakistani or Indian or somethin' DMV guy was tellin' me (in broken English that I couldn't understand) to get out of the truck with the parking brake off. When I finally figured out what he was sayin' I told him I was not gettin' out of the truck with the brake off and then the trooper came back. He handed me my stuff and told me to go. Then he started yellin' at the Pakistani, Indian or whatever DMV guy tellin' him that I was the third Pollack he pulled over in an hour and what is it with him pickin' on the Pollacks. I started laughin' but then he turned to me and said "Didn't I Tell You To Get Out Of Here?!" So I did with a smile. I'll save a couple of other funny stories for later, let's hear some of yours.

[Timothy Maikshilo]

There's a topic Thad started about CDL licenses where I posted a funny NJ DMV stop that happened to me a few years ago and I thought that that could be a good topic on it's own. I have 3 memorable ones that were good but I bet there's plenty of stories out there better than mine. So repeating that post here goes. About 4 years ago I was pulled over at a NJ DMV smoke check stop with the DM686. The trooper there took my paperwork while a Pakistani or Indian or somethin' DMV guy was tellin' me (in broken English that I couldn't understand) to get out of the truck with the parking brake off. When I finally figured out what he was sayin' I told him I was not gettin' out of the truck with the brake off and then the trooper came back. He handed me my stuff and told me to go. Then he started yellin' at the Pakistani, Indian or whatever DMV guy tellin' him that I was the third Pollack he pulled over in an hour and what is it with him pickin' on the Pollacks. I started laughin' but then he turned to me and said "Didn't I Tell You To Get Out Of Here?!" So I did with a smile. I'll save a couple of other funny stories for later, let's hear some of yours.

I got pulled onto some portable scales in Willimantic, Ct. back in "86" with a 1964 autocar ten wheel dump with 20 tons of class 4 black top. The DMV guy said pull onto the scales and shut it off...I said I can't shut it off and he said NOW...ok bud and I did. Well he said a minute later start it up and move forward. It wouldn't start....boy was he mad! get off my scales before you brake them! They were able to rock it enough to get it off....barely. I had to go get the low boy and haul it to the job site. The ticket was almost worth the trouble they had,Tim( I've got more too).

[rsmartyn]

Hey Tim, I could really picture that. You gave me a good laugh , Bob

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Hey Tim, I could really picture that. You gave me a good laugh , Bob

I had the lowbed you see in my album(back in "85") and had a dynahoe series 200-4 and just started up a steep hill from a stop sign. It was slow going and had a trooper come up behind....I got to the top and he pulled me over and wanted to know why I was going so slow? I tried not to laugh and said there's a reason for all the gears in a very nice voice,Tim

[rsmartyn]

I had the lowbed you see in my album(back in "85") and had a dynahoe series 200-4 and just started up a steep hill from a stop sign. It was slow going and had a trooper come up behind....I got to the top and he pulled me over and wanted to know why I was going so slow? I tried not to laugh and said there's a reason for all the gears in a very nice voice,Tim

Hi Tim, Would that be that sweet lookin' red R model with the heavy specs? I like that truck. Bob

[ThaddeusW]

There's a topic Thad started about CDL licenses where I posted a funny NJ DMV stop that happened to me a few years ago and I thought that that could be a good topic on it's own. I have 3 memorable ones that were good but I bet there's plenty of stories out there better than mine. So repeating that post here goes. About 4 years ago I was pulled over at a NJ DMV smoke check stop with the DM686. The trooper there took my paperwork while a Pakistani or Indian or somethin' DMV guy was tellin' me (in broken English that I couldn't understand) to get out of the truck with the parking brake off. When I finally figured out what he was sayin' I told him I was not gettin' out of the truck with the brake off and then the trooper came back. He handed me my stuff and told me to go. Then he started yellin' at the Pakistani, Indian or whatever DMV guy tellin' him that I was the third Pollack he pulled over in an hour and what is it with him pickin' on the Pollacks. I started laughin' but then he turned to me and said "Didn't I Tell You To Get Out Of Here?!" So I did with a smile. I'll save a couple of other funny stories for later, let's hear some of yours.

LOL good one (Im Polish too).

After I got my licence I had to do a delivery so I took the LIE (i495) out east. Well I figure that since I am in a van with passenger plates and with another passenger I thought I was golden to go in the HOV lane. Well I get pulled over by the nicest highway patrolman I have ever herd of. He told me that I needed another row of seats in the van to comply and other information. I get the ticket and find the violation number was wrong. Took it to court and it was thrown out. Lucky me.

[rsmartyn]

Always a beautiful thing to beat a BS ticket, glad to hear it Thad, Bob

[Freightrain]

I got caught in one of those situations also. I was going to a campgrounds a couple years ago, driving the B with my 40ft trailer in tow. The road.......or mule trail as I called it was anything but flat/straight. I made up more gear ratio's that day then I ever had before LOL!!

I just had pulled away from a stop and had to run around a very sharp cutback then up a very steep hill and around a bend. I used every bit of the road at a VERY slow pace!! Just no rushing 170 hp!!! I looked and saw a local barney fife had come up behind me. DOH!! He seemed to be in a hurry...and I was worried about how I was using all the road to get around. I quickly jerked the flashers on(that's what you're suppose to do, right?) I finally found a straight section and he blew past me. Whew! It had been a longggg trip and I was in no mood to be hassled.

Luckily I have yet to get hassled bad in the truck.

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Hi Tim, Would that be that sweet lookin' red R model with the heavy specs? I like that truck. Bob

Bob, the R had 58 rears triple frame 12.00x24 rubber 350 and a 12 speed. It was a great truck but would kill you bob tailing! Another time with a state trooper was when I was moving a 80 ton P+H crane and pulling a big hill the front rear blew. I pulled over as much as I could and had the flag girl that was following me wave by traffic. A trooper stopped and told me I couldn't leave the crane there.....I said it's done till we get a tow. He said you got to move it off the road and couldn't understand if the crane runs why won't it go! I shrugged and he took off. Got a wrecker to come out....a little brockway ten wheeler and that's another storie in it's self, Tim

[rsmartyn]

Hi Tim, Was that R always a tractor or a tandem dump converted? I bet it did ride like a dozer down the road empty. Years ago here in NJ I worked for a Bucyrus Erie dealer and whenever we had to move a large oversize or overweight machine north we had to use the old 1&9 thru Jersey City. As soon as you'd cross the bridge into Hudson County the county cops would be there wanting to know why they weren't called for an escort. When you'd hand them your license and registration you'd better have some dead presidents attached to it or you were in for a long inspection and long day. Bob

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Hi Tim, Was that R always a tractor or a tandem dump converted? I bet it did ride like a dozer down the road empty. Years ago here in NJ I worked for a Bucyrus Erie dealer and whenever we had to move a large oversize or overweight machine north we had to use the old 1&9 thru Jersey City. As soon as you'd cross the bridge into Hudson County the county cops would be there wanting to know why they weren't called for an escort. When you'd hand them your license and registration you'd better have some dead presidents attached to it or you were in for a long inspection and long day. Bob

Bob, it was sitting at Hartford Mack as a cab and chassis ready for a dump and was bought new and made into a tractor really miss that truck. There was a place in Brooklyn you better have something other than matches in a pack too or you didn't get unloaded for hours. I got lost in brooklyn once and found myself going down a one way street the wrong way....a cop walking the beat stopped me and said...what the hell a yyou doing? I said I didn't know Rockaway Blvd. turned one way and he said see that left? Your taking it....well it was a tight squeeze and every body on the block made sure I didn't hit thier cars. Let's say I was still lost for another hour,Tim

[rsmartyn]

Tim, I was with a friend one time as he drove down the wrong way on a one way. Answering the cop who stopped him by saying that he was only going one way didn't help him at all. On that beautiful R model with the 58s, was it the foward rear or the through shaft that went. 58s are tough to hurt unless you run them out of oil but broken through shafts are common. Mine went on the DM last October just as I pulled out of a job onto a county highway (overloaded of course). Luckily a friend stopped and jumped into the cab to steer as I walked the excavator out on the road, tracks full of mud, hooked a cable to her and drug her back to dump the load and call a wrecker. I back bladed the dirt off the highway with the dozer before the cops got there which I'm sure would of given them a hissy fit but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Bob

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Tim, I was with a friend one time as he drove down the wrong way on a one way. Answering the cop who stopped him by saying that he was only going one way didn't help him at all. On that beautiful R model with the 58s, was it the foward rear or the through shaft that went. 58s are tough to hurt unless you run them out of oil but broken through shafts are common. Mine went on the DM last October just as I pulled out of a job onto a county highway (overloaded of course). Luckily a friend stopped and jumped into the cab to steer as I walked the excavator out on the road, tracks full of mud, hooked a cable to her and drug her back to dump the load and call a wrecker. I back bladed the dirt off the highway with the dozer before the cops got there which I'm sure would of given them a hissy fit but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Bob

Yea, your better off agreeing with the man than pissing him off. Bob, that R model was bullet proof. The crane was under it's own power. I used to run them all over the state, a 40,50,70,80 and a 140 ton P+H. I bet you worked pretty hard to get your truck clear off the road and sometimes things work out your way when your in a bind. At the scale house years ago when I'd pull in with the low boy they would always wave me through because they knew the truck was 100% and they had better things to do. Got a few more stories too,Tim

[rsmartyn]

Okay boys & girls, time for another bedtime story. This one had a happy ending but was a little uneasy for me at the start. Taking a four lane back road with the B model hooked to the 20 ton tag trailer and excavator on board, I thought I was safe from the creeper cops. Low and behold, there they are, not one but two in a car pointing at guess who to pull over into the left turn lane across a lot of traffic. Once across I got out but the super trooper told me on a loudspeaker to go into the lot on the left to get out of the traffic so I waved my arms to the side signally OK. I guess he didn't like the way I moved my arms and screamed at me "What's with the arms, Get other there now!" Uh oh, I didn't like the sound of that and didn't like the secluded parking lot they had me pull in to. Once there I got out and asked what was the problem but the other super trooper came nose to nose with me and screamed "Get back in that truck and shut your mouth!" Don't you just love your law enforcement professionals? Well, I got back in Baby Skiddle and thought about calling some real cops on the cell phone but figured that might make matters worse so didn't. Out came the creeper and white gloves and my B got a thorough rectal exam. Then I was ordered out of the cab while one super trooper got in, pumped the brake and the other was under the trailer listening for leaks (while I said under my breath, roll, roll). After the most complete examination that truck has ever had the best they could come up with was a warning for truck's tach not working and that the engine has an oil leak (now you & I both know that the only time Macks don't leak oil is when they're empty). I asked (probably a dumb thing to do) why they gave me such a bad time since each one has pulled me over before and never did in the past. Again ever so friendly he shouted that he'd never seen me before and to get out of there Now! Guess what? Three days later, now on the main highway where they always pull trucks over, here's one of the super troopers waving at me again. I pull in and when he sees it's me he tells me to get out of here (never pulled me over before huh, how many 40+ year old B models does he see in a week?). Instead I ask some dumb questions which really pisses him off because about a dozen trucks went by that he couldn't stop because of me. I figured I better go before he found something to get me for but I left laughing. I went kind of long but I know alot of you guys can relate. Bob

[ThaddeusW]

Don't you just love your law enforcement professionals?

Remember they don't always become cops to protect us. They like their gun, badge and the power it gives them. Busting balls is what those types eat, sleep and breath.

Good to hear you got through that ordeal. Dump cop saw an old looking truck and thought he hit the jackpot to meet his ticket quota. Little did he know the quality of a well kept .

[rsmartyn]

Remember they don't always become cops to protect us. They like their gun, badge and the power it gives them. Busting balls is what those types eat, sleep and breath.

Good to hear you got through that ordeal. Dump cop saw an old looking truck and thought he hit the jackpot to meet his ticket quota. Little did he know the quality of a well kept .

Hey Thad, You point out 2 great truths of life, dumb cops and the quality of a well kept . Bob

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Hey Thad, You point out 2 great truths of life, dumb cops and the quality of a well kept . Bob

Hey guys I got pulled over last year in NY and I was empty and the truck was only three years old. It was a freightliner though. The cop passed by me and whipped it around stopped me and asked if I knew why he was stopping me....I said no sir and he said as soon as I saw you were driving a new freightliner I knew I had you. He said freightliner uses braided air hose and I bet they'll leak. I didn't believe him and he was right. He had me step on the brakes and both left and right front leaked ever so lightly...it leaked around the fitting where it was crimped. He said every freightliner he stopped had the same problem and 432.00 dollars later and 4 hours of my time I was back on the road. Freightliner said they've never had any problems with the braided hose and would not pay the bill or the ticket,Tim

[rsmartyn]

Hey guys I got pulled over last year in NY and I was empty and the truck was only three years old. It was a freightliner though. The cop passed by me and whipped it around stopped me and asked if I knew why he was stopping me....I said no sir and he said as soon as I saw you were driving a new freightliner I knew I had you. He said freightliner uses braided air hose and I bet they'll leak. I didn't believe him and he was right. He had me step on the brakes and both left and right front leaked ever so lightly...it leaked around the fitting where it was crimped. He said every freightliner he stopped had the same problem and 432.00 dollars later and 4 hours of my time I was back on the road. Freightliner said they've never had any problems with the braided hose and would not pay the bill or the ticket,Tim

So Tim, the moral of that story seems to be our old Macks (loaded) are better than a new Freightliner (empty). Bob

[Timothy Maikshilo]

So Tim, the moral of that story seems to be our old Macks (loaded) are better than a new Freightliner (empty). Bob

Yup, The abs box on the side of the frame next to the rear X went to crap last week and the guy who owns the freightliner chased the problem for two days. I think the goverment has really squeezed the truck makers and they have to meet all new guide lines and it's worse every year. For me I think I would totally rebuild my old dog from top to bottom and not have to worry about the electric stuff and she'd be good for another 10 years. Friend of mine bought a 90 superliner new and pulls 110 thousand pounds of logs 5 days a week has rebuild her twice and is way ahead of the game,Tim (not putting new trucks down, it's the new regs.).

[rsmartyn]

Okay, true story time again. Going early one morning to the asphalt plant for a load with the DM tandem dump after I crossed a state highway, here comes an empty NY commuter bus on my right through a stop sign. Baboom, right into the dump body at the foward tandem. For a change nothing happened to me but the front of the bus was smashed to hell, most of it laying on the ground. I asked the driver what the _______ was that and his reply was "NO can stop, no can stop" which was the best English he had to offer. When the police got there they were relieved to see no one hurt especially after the call was for a dump truck bus accident. It was pretty obvious to them what happened but they asked for my story which I offered. Then I told him my dog Shell, who was sitting right there in the buddy seat saw the whole thing to which he replied, "Yeah but is she gonna tell me the truth". Then the NJ Transit wrecker driver wanted to hook up to the bus by backing it up. The cop told him wait a minute, the driver said there weren't any brakes. The wrecker driver said that there wasn't a damn thing wrong with the bus and gave a rather colorful description of the driver. Then he handed the cop an 8x8 block and told him to throw it behind the tire if he couldn't stop. The cop told him where he could stuff his block. Anyway the whole thing was cleaned up in less than an hour and off I drove with no damage and no ticket for a ch ange. Bob