Every week, it's SOMETHING.

[Nick Burner]

DOT got me this week. They had a massive trap setup at Texas Motor Speedway pulling in every truck that went past. Easily over a hundred cop cars there. Texas state cops, as well as commercial vehicle enforcement from every town for miles. Fort Worth, Midlothian, Melissa, just an ocean of cops.

They got me for the slack adjustment being an inch too loose on two of my brakes. Put me out of service for it. Our lead mechanic had to drive all the way out to fix them and get me rolling again.

Doesn’t seem like an OOS violation…but this guy IS the law!

 

[llazy_llama]

Doesn’t seem like an OOS violation…but this guy IS the law!

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Yeah, it even felt like he was doing some gray area shit because he told me it would be fine for me to drive to the disposal a few miles away and offload. Then I asked if I could drive it back to the yard like that for repairs, and he said that would be fine too without even asking how far the yard was. But that's DOT blitz week for you. Every year like clockwork they go nuts so they can say to the taxpayer "look what a great job we're doing. We found 29 trillion violations this time. Keeping you safe!"