Overweight

[Don Bradner]

Funny, I'm 60, with a lot of road miles under my belt, and I've never been
pulled over by a disgruntled police officer.

Not that I've never had any tickets, including 3 when driving truck in my
college days (one for being 2900 over on the single-axle tractor drivers, when
18000 was the limit), but I can't say I didn't deserve each of them, and in 2 of
the cases the officer wrote me for less than he might have. On the overweight
they let me redistribute the load and continue, still overweight, and still
ticketed. That was at the northbound Castaic scales in 1971.

On 4/7/2007 at 4:05 AM Gregory OConnor wrote:

>Larry, In California the CHP have special teams set up for trucks and
>scales. I don't know how Missouri highway patrol does commercial
>enforcement but In 1985 on my moving trip from NewJersey to
>California,I was pulled over by a Missouri disgruntled police officer.
>
>"is it Missour(AH) or Missour(EE)."
>
>I passed a Missouri DOT scale with a oneton ford pickup. Less than
>one mile later I was pulled over . During my conversation with the
>trooper he corrected my annunciation and proclaimed "it's Missour
>(ah) son, not Missour(EE)!!, Where ya from that they talk like that?"
>He then wrote me a ticket when I said "New Jers(AH)". Prick

Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Eureka, CA