[AT] DOT Question

[Gene Dotson]

    My only experience with being checked was entering the Pennsylvania 
turnpike at New Stanton entrance. I was checked by the Pa. patrol. At the 
time I did not have a breakaway brake controller for my trailer. I was told 
I would have to park it and pay a $90.00 fine and not be able to move it 
until I had the controller on it. I explained that it wasn't required in 
Ohio and he finally relented when I promised to put one on when I got to 
Ohio. He probably thought I was coming home at the time, but I was on the 
outbound trip to Massachussetts to Dave Cesan's to pick up a couple 
tractors. I drove across half of Pa., New York, Connecticutt and into Mass. 
and then back the next night. I just knew every patrolman on every road knew 
I was a danger on the highway.

                            Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] DOT Question


> So far I have found most cops to be pretty reasonable including DOT. Of
> course there are always a few that are a 4-wheeled ego trip but not that
> many.
> Some years ago I was pulled over by a lady DOT officer while on US-41 over
> on Indiana's south west coast that was so pretty that she was almost hard 
> to
> talk to.   ;-)   She was just wanting to know why the ton dually PU didn't
> have a plate. I explained that it was plated as a semi apportioned out of
> Iowa and that I had left the trailer at the test plot site. I showed her 
> the
> paper work and said the truck plate was on the front as we were instructed
> to mount it. She went up front to look and oops... I did not know that the
> guy I was working with had mounted the "oversized load" sign right over 
> the
> top of it.   ;-)   She was quite good-natured about it and after she
> determined that it was in fact there she let me go on without even asking 
> me
> to move the sign.
> Another time on Indiana's south east coast a lady DOT officer noticed that
> the company had allowed our plate to expire. She wrote me a ticket that I
> paid out of pocket to keep the rig out of impound. She then told me that 
> she
> was required to tell me that I must proceed to the next exit and park the
> rig and call for someone to come and get me. She then spoke very quietly 
> and
> said that she had to tell me that but that she definitely would not radio
> ahead and let anyone know I was going that way. She said that if I got
> stopped on down the road that I would get another ticket but whether I
> parked or drove on home was really up to me...   I made tracks for home...
> ;-)   The Iowa office paid me back for the ticket.
>
>
>
>
> --
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>
> If you cut a tree plant at least two to replace it...
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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