US DOT Numbers
I was pulled over in IA a few days ago by the Highway Patrol Motor Vehicle Division and cited for a number of violations starting with no US DOT numbers posted on my vehicle. I drive a F-350 Dually w...
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ricatic wrote:
...and the revenu-ing machine rolls on...not for safety or for the protection of roads from overloaded trucks...just for the money...
I have to wonder where in Iowa you were robbed...if on Hwy 30 east of Marshalltown, I am not surprised...a Napoleon syndrome DOT guy harasses vehicles all day long...I am working on a large project right on HWY 30 and I see him almost daily play out his power trip...
The public needs safe travel and safe trucks...but the harassment of the industry by these revenuers is driving a shortage of qualified truckers. An under appreciated profession is being decimated by regulation and enforcement by the sheer greed of the State...
Good Luck in your fight with the bureaucracy...
Regards
I am here working as well east of Fort Dodge on HWY 20.
I kind of thought it may be a revenue thing. Also, I have pumped about 15K into this state just on my expenses alone in the past two months.
