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Truckers' Stories * USA - What does the DOT Scale Officer see?
During my career as an OTR Truck Driver, I have visited the DOT Scale House on more than one occasion
Washington,DC,USA -SAFERSYS.ORG -7 June 2007: -- The DOT Enforcement officer usually takes your information, including CDL, medical card, truck and trailer registration, insurance cards and any number of other official documents to make sure you are legal for the road you are traveling... Through all of the inspections, paperwork checks and other official DOT functions, I’ve often wondered what type of information is entered into the DOT computer and why that information is important to future visits to the DOT Inspection Facility... I asked this question to a DOT Officer recently and he told me that certain states, DOT offices are linked to the FMCSA computer and a score is given to each trucking company based on several factors such as number of vehicle and driver inspections, number of vehicle and driver inspections failed, number of hazmat inspections, number of hazmat inspections failed, number of accidents, number of fatalities, number of traffic violations, number of vehicles towed and number of drivers in the fleet... Certainly these aren’t the only factors used in the computation of the safety score, it is a very complicated process, but they are the most common factors...
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