Excellent points. I drive all day for work, not a trucker, but I use a lot of Pilots. ALL the coloreds have the headset, all of them standing in line babbling to some distant colored.
Also, I stopped at a rest stop to piss and watched the SECURITY GUARD stopping truckers walking in for imagined violations he saw AND called DOT on them
That's insane. I've never seen a security guard pull something like that. I would have been gone long before D.O.T. showed up. I do see D.O.T. swarm rest areas and start banging on the sleepers for inspections on drivers that are just trying to take a break (Ohio is notorious for this). And during an inspection you have to kick your logs into on duty so if you were in the middle of doing a 10 hour break, too bad. You have to start over.
The real assholes will also walk down the line issuing parking tickets to the guys that pulled in late and are parked on the shoulder. What are they supposed to do. After about 7-9pm there is zero truck parking left anywhere.
Also, I used to pull flatbed so I frequented a lot of the same places loggers deliver to. Loggers are almost always over legal weight. I saw a DOT set up portable scales just down the road from one of those places and started nailing everyone of them coming in until word got out on the radio.
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