Illinois truck drivers will be the target of a 24-hour traffic enforcement effort by state troopers honoring a colleague who died while on duty.
Trooper James Sauter died on March 28, 2013 when his patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 294 in suburban Cook County.
The Wisconsin trucker who killed the trooper after falling asleep was sentenced to two years in prison.
"Operation Sauter" begins on Monday, the three-year anniversary of its namesake's death.
State police will check commercial driver's logbooks to ensure they are properly documenting the number of hours driven.
The driver who killed Sauter had exceeded the 14-hour daily legal limit and filed a false work log to hide that violation.
http://www.wrex.com/story/31578474/2016/03/28/truck-drivers-in-illinois-target-of-24-hour-enforcement-by-state-troopers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WREX-TV
Trooper James Sauter died on March 28, 2013 when his patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 294 in suburban Cook County.
The Wisconsin trucker who killed the trooper after falling asleep was sentenced to two years in prison.
"Operation Sauter" begins on Monday, the three-year anniversary of its namesake's death.
State police will check commercial driver's logbooks to ensure they are properly documenting the number of hours driven.
The driver who killed Sauter had exceeded the 14-hour daily legal limit and filed a false work log to hide that violation.
http://www.wrex.com/story/31578474/2016/03/28/truck-drivers-in-illinois-target-of-24-hour-enforcement-by-state-troopers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WREX-TV
How would you propose that LE "makes an effort to be sure truckers get their legal rest breaks" if they aren't going to check log books?
ReplyDeleteWith the the advent of ELD (electronic logging device) software, the days of paper and pencil logbooks or multiple logbooks is limited.
Methinks you are working to hard to find something to bitch about.
working hard to find? When the cops decide "hey, lets dedicate our day to just screwing with truckers". Nope. I didn't have to work to find cops being assholes. I never do. Anyone changing the way they do a days work, to specifically target one group, instead of doing the job they did the day before, the week before, and the many months in the past, is being an ass. How do I propose? Simple, the cops don't wake up truckers who are parked and getting the legal requirement of sleep. I didn't run that story, though it was another easy way to illustrate cops being assholes. Want a link to that story so you can see where cops are interrupting the very activity that they are now hitting truckers for? It's very easy to see cops being hypocrits. This is only one example.
Deletewith the advent of car and body cameras, the abuse of police on citizens ought to be limited, to paraphrase your comment, but cops aren't even slowing down. They are making up shit about how they can turn off the cameras when they are going to do illegal things. So, methinks YOU are finding some strange motivation to challenge me on my basic premise in view of ALL the examples and facts in the news about cops acting illegally. You really aren't going top be satisfied with the result of arguing with me on that. I was a cop for 3 years, and the deplorable illegal acts by cops just PISSES ME OFF.
DeleteI don't know a single trucker who doesn't know the rules of the game. The rules of the game include inspection on demand. Just like the guys who bitch about getting parked for overweight or having out of date inspections. You can either play by the rules, or not, it's your choice.
ReplyDeletefine. I wasn't exonerating truckers from operating illegally. Clearly, I wasn't. Cops know the rules of the game too, and they aren't playing by the rules, which, are laws, and not playing by the rules is breaking the very laws they swear and oath of office to work to, operate within, and enforce. When cops break laws (you don't need more facts of that, do you? Seriously? I post enough cops sentenced for breaking laws) they aren't playing by the rules you just dusted off and presented as exhibit A. So, since you are evidently argumentative about this, for no reason I can think of, find this link to be my "let this be the end of my trying to get you to understand why I think you missed the point" http://www.overdriveonline.com/team-driver-to-law-enforcement-dont-wake-me-up/ and this is the clear answer to the 1st question you had "How do you propose LE makes and effort to ensure truckers get their legal rest breaks?" Stop fucking with truckers, stop waking them up you fucking cops. Simple enough? Cops can go do the world a fucking service and find missing kids, round up meth cooking operations, and roust out illegal alien hiring companies. These are ALL their job too, or had you forgotten? Fucking with truckers is NOT the 24 hour once a year job description they are hired to do when getting a badge. Can I be any more clear? This post is clear in it's focus, cops can't target a group of citizens to harass once a year because they have a fucking vendetta. That is known as vigilante justice. It is ILLEGAL. Not what the dept of justice has commissioned the police in this country to do when hiring assholes who can't get a real job.
DeleteIf you don't like what I post on my website, feel free to comment, and complain, and bitch, and moan, and piss, and whine, and gripe, and make noise about it. But why waste your time? Unless you have a reasonable logical direction to what you are saying that is obviously going to change my mind and do so with such clarity that I post an apology for being completely blind and obtuse to the point you've made, I'll not find it reasonable for you to nag me about what I felt strongly enough to type at for 10 or 20 minutes, with links, which I've read and rewritten for brevity, and then post knowing it's stretching past the basic entertainment value I've tried to stick with for over 9 years and risk alienating some readers with.
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