exactly... here in Texas has historically been the same thing. Some with company logos on the dorrs of a F350 service truck bed with no thoughts compliance. Over weight, no CDL, working 30 hours straight, driving across the Tx La line repeatedly..... Others like us TRYING to do the right thing every time, but its like trying to hit a moving target with various interpetations of the law.I can't speak for other areas of the country, but here in PA there appears to be a very grey area developing on what is considered to be commercial. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of trucks on the road around here working the shale operations. Some with DOT #'s, some without. Some owned by companies wearing lettering, some not. Some owned by individuals with blank doors, and some lettered with company names. Some being operated by drivers with CDLs, some not.
Being in the Fire/EMS business for many years, I have quite a few friends who are either state or local officers. In talking with some of these guys, they are getting very frustrated at the enforcement level trying to deal with all of this activity and getting a lot of pressure from above to make sure that everyone is in compliance.
Hey Big Great song, as for mfurrh55, I take it the company paid that fine?Well i called the company i was driving for and they said pay it and get out of Tenn.,
and the dog "alerted" is the biggest bunch of bs ive ever personally witnessed. Thats slight of hand by the canine handler to make it appear as though the dog "alerted" to something, therefore he basically made up probable cause.Wingate, you are correct. Running commercial is entirely different from being a private citizen in your personnal vehicle. That being said, when I ran drug interdiction, somewhere between 20-25 minutes was considered the maximum that we could hold a vehicle if we weren't given permission to search it and didn't have probable cause. This time limitation theoretically gave us enough time to get our canine unit on the scene and do a walk-around with ole 'sniffer'. If he alerted, well that now became probable cause and the fun started.
- Ed
and the dog "alerted" is the biggest bunch of bs ive ever personally witnessed. Thats slight of hand by the canine handler to make it appear as though the dog "alerted" to something, therefore he basically made up probable cause.
Wingate, you won't get any argument from me, lol.
Wingate, you won't get any argument from me, lol.
And BIG's correct; when I was driving I always tried to skirt the scales.
My apologies to all the professionals, but this poor old country boy had to eat! Question: What's a log book?
- Ed
- Ed
Yep! While not professionally trained, I have an 18 month old female Boxer that I can do the same thing with. If they pull you over on something simple like a speeding ticket or no seatbelt or the infamous "license plate light out. " as they did me once! They ask for consent to search, if you refuse, they get canine out there, he pulls his BS with saying the dog alerted so they can search anyway. Once the search yields NOTHING, I suggested they use that dog for sniffing A-holes and went on to say they could start in his patrol car.As an interesting twist to this conversation, I just happen to have an 18 week old German Shepherd puppy sleeping on the floor beside me as I type this. He just returned last week from his initial 3 week in-house basic obedience training at a professional trainer that preps GSDs for police, search and rescue, and other specialized work. Lets just say that even at 18 weeks, I can make him follow quite a few commands with nothing but subtile hand signals.![]()
Jgillot, Auburn University has a kennel and school located on Ft. McClelland in Anniston which is located about ten miles from me. They use Labrador Retrievers out of Australian stock for their dogs that are bred for bomb and drug detection. There must be quite a demand from the Coast Guard and muncipal law-enforcement. I've heard some outrageous prices for these pooches.
We had some kind of Norwegian wolf-looking beast when I was with the Sheriff's Department that would be sent in to quell the inmates in the jail. Half the time the rascal would get excited and bite his handler.
There's more traffic on that road than in Los AngelesI love being headed south on 35.....