Originally Posted By: mark williamsNot much being said on the news,But they have passed a new law on the truckers of America,Although they are not enforcing it yet,When they do start according to American Truckers Asso- there will be around 250000 drivers out of a job,I've seen a print on the new laws & it's crazy,One exp- is if your 30% over body wt# you would loose your medical card,No medical no job,
Points against your license for improper equipment,
They have already started on the equipment,I got a ticket for one of my side marker light not working & it was in day time
JMO But when you take 250000 trucks off the road all at once then it will be SHTF,,,,,Mark
Never happen... They would have to prove you pose a risk personally, otherwise they would face charges for profiling! The law would be found discriminatory, especially at only 30%, that is ridiculous. I've been more than 30% overweight according to the charts for nearly 20 years, I've been to the doctor once in the last 13 years. The 2 or 3 times I saw one in 1997 was for a chipped bone in my ankle. He told me I should have surgery to remove the chip, I told him to go pound sand, he told me he'd operate sooner or later, 13 years later the other ankle gives me more grief than the one he wanted to operate on. Prior to that, a few trips to the chiropractor; the next spring I invested in a new gas auger and quit trying to drill 20 - 30 holes in the ice by hand, then turning my back to the wind. Haven't been back to see him since either.
If you think getting written up for a side marker light during the day is tough, you need to get out of Tennessee and visit a few other parts of the world. Florida is a PIA!! South Dakota is a PIA!! Utah and Nevada are a PIA!!! California is a bigger PIA than all the above combined!!
The yo-yos down here are pulling EVERY TRUCK on I-75 in and weighing them this week. As in no drive through, they are pulling everyone up on the scale. Went to central Florida last night, wasn't even heavy. Guy came out and checked my registration for no apparent reason. Coming home today they weighed my empty flat bed truck!!! Guess they thought them 3 - 2x6s I had on the back looked heavy.
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Just remember, when all you city folks Bug Out, we country folks really don't want you camping in our backyards!! Y'all chose to live in the city, we are out here in the country because we don't want to deal with that many neighbors. You start tromping through our gardens, fishing in our ponds, and trying to hunt the deer we've been feedin in our backyard, and you're subject to be an endangered species.