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- Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:18 pm
- Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
- Topic: Diesel Bear
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Re: Diesel Bear
I only run West Texas and New Mexico, so I don't have a lot of state laws to keep track of.
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:15 pm
- Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
- Topic: Diesel Bear
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Re: Diesel Bear
It's a 57' trailer that we use to pick up and drop off 48' containers, which hang a couple feet over the back making it a 59' trailer. Three trailer axles, spread 10' from the center of the front to the center of the rear.tomtexan wrote:What size truck are you driving?
(Slightly over width too, but fortunately they've never gotten the tape measure out.)
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:10 pm
- Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
- Topic: Diesel Bear
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Re: Diesel Bear
Exactly.johnson0317 wrote:Very common misperception, and it is one I think many trucking companies are more than happy to promulgate.
I had heard this a lot, years ago. I started asking people to show me the law and no one could. Then I asked a Texas DPS officer when he inspected my truck. He said he never heard of such a thing and as far as he knew, if I had a CHL, I could carry.
Now, depending on what you haul and where you haul it . . . there could be difficulties. I have delivered to prisons a couple times, and there's nowhere to stash a weapon before you go, and they do search the truck when entering and leaving.
In my current job, I have no such worries.
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:06 pm
- Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
- Topic: Diesel Bear
- Replies: 7
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Diesel Bear
I finally got to show off my CHL yesterday. (It's been years, like since the early days of CHL, back in the nineties.)
I got pulled over by one of those black and white blazers, the DPS officers who deal primarily with commercial vehicles.
We'd actually been talking for a while, and he was looking over my truck, when he got around to asking for my driver's license and medical card. (Commercial drivers have to have a DOT physical every two years and are required to carry a card showing that you're up to date.) I handed him my DL and CHL and by the time I found my medical card, he handed the CHL back to me. He never asked if I was armed and I never said. The subject just never came up. Totally irrelevant to our business at the moment, I guess. As it should be.
A good stop.
(Especially considering that he could have given me a ticket for any number of things wrong with my piece-o-junk truck but instead only gave me a warning for several minor issues.
)
I got pulled over by one of those black and white blazers, the DPS officers who deal primarily with commercial vehicles.
We'd actually been talking for a while, and he was looking over my truck, when he got around to asking for my driver's license and medical card. (Commercial drivers have to have a DOT physical every two years and are required to carry a card showing that you're up to date.) I handed him my DL and CHL and by the time I found my medical card, he handed the CHL back to me. He never asked if I was armed and I never said. The subject just never came up. Totally irrelevant to our business at the moment, I guess. As it should be.
A good stop.
(Especially considering that he could have given me a ticket for any number of things wrong with my piece-o-junk truck but instead only gave me a warning for several minor issues.
)