Truck routes and general truck enforcement

[metallicat]

I know of at least one police officer on here (mcsap) that does truck enforcement, but does anyone else here regularly pay attention to trucks driving on non-truck routes, or trucks having insecure loads? How large are the fines in your area for each violation?

[mcsap]

I'll just say that I put more big rigs out of service for brake violations ( 60%) than for any other offense. A typical 5 axle tractor trailer has 2 brakes per axle or 10 brakes. If 20% ( 2 ) of them are either out of adjustment, not working or have some other serious problem, they sit or get towed.

The fines are $600 PER individual brake vio. I usually write every other brake vio ( since I am a nice guy) which means that I usually write $1,200 tickets , some have been more. Some companies are repeat offenders and need the financial "slap up side their head" to get the message.

[JD45]

I know of at least one police officer on here (mcsap) that does truck enforcement, but does anyone else here regularly pay attention to trucks driving on non-truck routes, or trucks having insecure loads? How large are the fines in your area for each violation?

Usually CHP commercial enforcement takes care of that for us...

[SuperCop833]

Where I work we have two Highway Patrol weight stations that are in my venue. We can issue summons for about 99% of the things they can as far as CMV violations go. The only thing we can not do is place a truck out of service. We normally work hand in hand on CMV enforcement due to the high number of violations that are found / and the high number of trucks that run or bypass the station. Some of our CMV fines are as follows:

Fail to stop CMV at open weight station-$228.00
Unsafe brakes-$358.00
Unsafe suspension-$358.00
Operated CMV on bridge over weight limit-$378.00
Log book violation (over hours/no entry)-$228.00
CMV over length or width-$188.00
Operated CMV while declared out of service-$278.00 + arrest+tow the truck
Over weight-$208 for 1ST 1,000 lbs and $10.00 per every 100 after that (up to $500.00)
Mcsap are you Hwy Patrol or Muni?