Check Points? Why?

When the one's who break the law the most overloaded and speed wise go free.

On the way to work i kept watching coal trucks and a few other trucks pull off. Did not think much about it.
Well until i run into the check point.
I got a warning for my inspection sticker being out. Out by today 12 days. Written warning.
Yet all those trucks pulled over before they got to the check point.
If they were legal why.
Most stopped dead and immediately all lights went off on the trucks and drivers left their trucks.
I watched as another truck a 4x4 came up and some talked, and some got into the truck.
I got a warning ticket and basically because of their CB's the truck drivers, they were not ticketed, coal and other types of truck drivers, yet they never went through the check point?
Guess this area is true to what i use to know years ago, before i left and came back.
Coal is king. Do what you want as long as what you want deals with coal. Or you know certain people or have certain ties.
Glad i just got a warning. Other than that i may of had to really write a few letters.
What has happened to this area over the last few years.
The real crime goes by the way side and the serious stuff is let go.

Honey, what you're talking about has been going on for years. In order to make a living driving a truck, sometimes you have to bend the rules. It comes with the territory. If you don't like it, buy a cb radio. Sounds more like you're venting because you let your sticker run out and got caught.

So nothing has changed huh. The below says it all. I didn't mind the warning ticket. I hardly drive my wife's car. Good thing i did tonight.

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Honey, what you're talking about has been going on for years. In order to make a living driving a truck, sometimes you have to bend the rules. It comes with the territory. If you don't like it, buy a cb radio.

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This is common. You can stop 100 ft. from a check point abandon an overloaded vehicle and nothing is said or done. Yet some vehicles are called in and an officer setting behind all of this. Goes after the other vehicles.
Yet here sets vehicles with something wrong and nothing is done.
Yet a person who admits their wrong is given a warning ticket. Only after the officer threatened the ticket several times.

If that is acceptable still yet. This area has actually regressed more than i thought.
But i guess it has.
I heard today the Sheriff of WC made well over $85,000 a year.
When i left 10 yrs ago the salary was just over $45,000 a year.
Kind of astonished me.
What do the local police chiefs make. What about the officer's themselves.

Oh and the warning ticket i got. Was for a brake light out. It had a short in a wire. But the guy in front of me, went through with no lights on his rear end.
No one bothered to check it.
Ah it's just this area neutral, you will get use to it. They get bored easy and it makes for something to do.... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
It's all politics and money as it's always been.... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img]

You would be hard pressed to find a coal truck on the road that could pass a bonafide inspection.

There are inpection stations out there who tend to look the other way at a lot of infractions.