California Highway Patrol and Nevada Highway Patrol

What a day!!!

The place we picked up trucks today, in Sacramento, had the California license plates on them and the trucks had not been de- identified - meaning the trucking company's name and DOT numbers were still on the trucks.

The man we got the trucks from was nice with Joe and quite testy with me. He was really irked about the agreement he had reached with the buyer and got after me a couple times. I barely said four words to him.

Leaving the pick up location and on I-80 the Sacramento Weigh Station was open. Joe got all the green lights and headed for the highway. I got the inspection light and had to go to the back of the scale house where I got to sit for an hour while the Highway Patrol tried to see if my boom was legal in their state.

I had got Joe stopped before he got too far away - a half mile - and called him to come back and explain the boom set up and why it was, in fact, legal. Some guy, not an officer, climbed all over my boom. Peering down the boom structure, looking into the tubing, turning and twisting everything that moved, pounded on the chains and safety chains, handling the hydraulic cylinder and just picking the whole thing apart to the Highway Patrolman. This got the CHP guy all excited and he called his boss to come in.

After an hour of Joe telling them the guy was not correct the CHP boss wanted a chain attached to both rear frame members then we could leave.

Joe had walked to his truck and back to mine three times, one of those times dragging a 40 pound chain. We finally left California and no tickets.

Into Nevada we went to Boomtown and the truckstop to buy permits. The truckstop is gone - Cabela's bought the property. No permits. We have to go to Sparks and the T/A now.

Joe got pulled over by the Nevada Highway Patrol, I pulled over behind the patrolman. These trucks with the California plates and the trucking company's name and DOT numbers got us ticketed and we were cited for not having permits for Nevada.

This time two and a half hours later, at roadside, we were allowed to go as long as we promised we would get permits yet tonight.

At the T/A in Sparks, Nevada we find they no longer do permits - Sierra Syd's Casino does them at the cashier cage. We had to call ComData to get the permits, cost $184.95.

What a day!!!

We have parked in the T/A parking lot and got a hotel room at Western Village Hotel and Casino for the night.


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