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Originally Posted by whunter29
Some of you were writing about dot cops. Here is my actual experience with them. Two days before Christmas last year I get pulled over on La14 out of Abbeville. I ask officer did I due something wrong because I just passed a full dot roadside inspection a week earlier with no violations. He said no you didn't do anything wrong but I want to check you. The dot officer then proceeds to recheck everything and notices my emergency breakaway switch was hooked into my safety chains. A violation which at the time I had no idea about as I had been threw five or more previous roadside inspections in multiple states and had never been told anything about. Needless to say this sob put me out of service and wrote me a 100 dollar ticket. I honestly believe they work on a ticket quota to make money for the state. So if any of you four wheelers think you get harassed you ought to see what us truckers go threw. Also supposedly after passing a roadside inspection like I did before we are suppose to be given a sticker that we passed so we are not harassed for a number of months but everytime I have passed my roadside inspection dot tells me they are out of stickers. Go figure. In my mind if he would have given me a simple warning I can assure you I would have gotten this issue fixed immediately. This is one shinning example of why I have no respect for dot cops.
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So did us truckers shorten DOTD by call them DOT. Hahaha. I agree they can be harassing. Luckily I've always had an DOT officer pull me over that was so nice that I thought he had spotted something and was playing me in a trap. Never had any trouble out of DOTD though. What about you. Lol