I've been stopped 4 times in nearly 14 years in my service truck. Two of the times I went across the scales overweight on my rear axel (ie more than 20,000 lbs). Both times the guys were just as nice to me as I was to them. The first go round they also had to weight Dad's truck as he was running a little behind me. When he rolled across the scales the officer asked me, 'is that your dad'. When I said it was, he smiled and said, "He11 son, his whole truck doesn't weigh as much as your rear axel did, so there's no way he could be overweight....but if he was I was going to let him go...because I've done got you......LOL". The sad thing is the only reason I even went down the interstate was that I was in a hurry to get home after a week out of town, it was after 5 on the Friday before Labor day, and I figured they would be closed. I was wrong....LOL
The last time it was a Saturday, on a nice, sunny, summer afternoon. The officer that stopped me wanted to do a level one inspection to help him keep his qual's current. He said the reason he chose me was that being I drove a mechanics truck he figured it would be well taken care of, and it would make things really easy on the both of us. We had a nice chat while he was doing the inspection for working lights, stroke on the brake chambers, etc,. He said that given the class they send them through there is a way to shut down nearly every truck out there, if the officer wanted to. That said, he said the actions of most officers is directly related to the way they are treated. He said that it's true some officers are on a 'power trip, but for the most part, they are just like anybody else and are just out there doing their job. Treat them right and you'll get treated right yourself. Give them a hard time, and that blown fuse that causes all of the trailer lights to go out turns into a ticket for each individual light instead of one ticket for lights out. In other words, mess with them and your screwing up.
Personally I treat others as I like to be treated, and so far it has served me well.
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