Re: Commercial driver license in NC

Posted by NC Wayne on June 01, 2006 at 19:04:55 from (205.188.117.14):

In Reply to: Re: Commercial driver license in NC posted by john in la on May 31, 2006 at 23:46:23:

Hey John, all I can tell you is that what I'm doing is following the letter of the law. As far as loading the trucl over the GVWR you need to set in a scale house at a quarry sometime and see just how many of the dumps leaving are loaded over their GVWR to their maximum "legal load limit" as detrmined by the number of axels and wheelbase. You'd probably be suprised that's it's close to if not 100% of them. Otherwise those guys can't make a living hauling "light loads" day in and day out....That said if I was so illegal then when I got the ticket for being over on the rear and then spent an hour standing around talking to the guys, where they would have had ample opportunity to find something else wrong if they'd wanted to and there was, why didn't they write me up for something else???? Because by the letter of the law I was legal and they knew it.....---I regularly run down into SC, and have even made a trip through VA and into West Va crossing scales all the way there with no problems. I also pay every year for the proper IFTA stickers for the states I travel, carry a two million dollar liability policy, fill out quarterly fuel tax statements, etc., all "legal like---Now since I do follow the letter of the law if I ever put a trailer behind my truck, no matter how light or heavy (which I don't and don't plan to) I automatically have to have a Class A CDL. ---- They claim these laws are to protect the public from those of us driving trucks but that's a bunch of BS. All it does is give the individual states a way of collecting revenue off unsuspecting or unknowledgable truckers who are trying to make a living and happen to pass through a state and happen to be doing something that's illegal there that's prefectly legal everywhere else. Just look at the weight limits in the states. You can cross half the country and be legal as all, but hit one specific state that has their own thoughts on what your truck can weight and they'll burn you a new one..... If they want to make things right go ahead and make Interstate trucking laws a exclusively federal regulated thing and keep the states and their individual BS laws out of it.---- As far as safety is concerned, how may 70+ year old men have you seen driving a motor home and towing a full size car with nothing but a class C liscense??? He's gonna be "legal" in more states than I am. He probably knows very little about the repair, maintenance, etc to his vehicle, his reflexes are gonna be slower because of age, etc etc, etc, so tell me where he's safer than I am in a straight truck that I personally repair and maintain--- My neighbor's son works for a local county bus garage. When he was old enough to get the proper credentials to drive their wrecker they put him on it. He could legally get the endorsements to drive the wrecker but wasn't old enough to drive the fuel truck (had to be 21 for his Haz mat)....yet if the fuel truck broke down he could pick it up with the wrecker and tow it anywhere because he had the endorsements he needed for the wrecker....Now tell me that's "safe" or even makes good sense...---Friend was at the DMV the other week getting his CDL renewed. Guy in the booth next to him was getting a CDL along with endorsments for all the good stuff he needed like Hazmat, explosives, etc. The guy was getting it with an interpreter because he could neither read, write, nor speak English...Again I'm supposed to be illegal/unsafe??? This guy can't even read the road signs or comunicate to tell a DMV officer Highway Patrolman, etc he's on fire but he can rive a tanker load of hazardous chemicals on the road beside me....----Just another .02 of my thoughts and experiences.......

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