Got busted by the Mermaids yesterday.
Usually the scales here are pretty cool and only care about axle weights. New kid must be trying to prove himself and did a level 2 on me, first time I have ever had an inspection and first time for a log book inspection.
I run Elog and took my 10 hours off Sunday starting at 1:30am and took off at 9:30 am. Of course, with it being day light savings the logs only showed 9 hours off instead of 10 and I had to really fight him to let that one go.
My drive axles were also 500lb overweight but I made him reweigh it, and when he wasn’t looking I cranked the knob for the tag axle on my trailer about 3 turns and when I came back around I weighed 900lb overweight on the trailer tag. Told him his scales must be messed up and talked my way out of that one.
He did get me a violation for no reverse light though. We run LED light bars on a switch and they don’t come on automaticity when you put the truck in reverse and he didn’t like it. He wanted to get me on a marker light that wasn’t working too but I gave it a good smack and got a flicker out of it and was able to convince him it worked when I left the shop.
Guess talking my way out of 3 of the 4 wasn’t too bad…..
Photo from south side of Atigun pass last night
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(This post was last modified: 11-10-2024, 01:17 AM by The Shooters Apprentice.)
Usually the scales here are pretty cool and only care about axle weights. New kid must be trying to prove himself and did a level 2 on me, first time I have ever had an inspection and first time for a log book inspection.
I run Elog and took my 10 hours off Sunday starting at 1:30am and took off at 9:30 am. Of course, with it being day light savings the logs only showed 9 hours off instead of 10 and I had to really fight him to let that one go.
My drive axles were also 500lb overweight but I made him reweigh it, and when he wasn’t looking I cranked the knob for the tag axle on my trailer about 3 turns and when I came back around I weighed 900lb overweight on the trailer tag. Told him his scales must be messed up and talked my way out of that one.
He did get me a violation for no reverse light though. We run LED light bars on a switch and they don’t come on automaticity when you put the truck in reverse and he didn’t like it. He wanted to get me on a marker light that wasn’t working too but I gave it a good smack and got a flicker out of it and was able to convince him it worked when I left the shop.
Guess talking my way out of 3 of the 4 wasn’t too bad…..
Photo from south side of Atigun pass last night
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