Phone call from CHP

I would think it to be legitimate.

When one of our drivers died in Canada, when I was also delivering at the same location and reported to our company that he was there, but most likely sleeping.

I received a phone call from The City Police Dept. and the officer gave me his name and all. The calling number was blocked and said private.

 

In canada the cops numbers are private numbers. They don't want RCMP coming up on call display if they are calling someone who's done something wrong. Chances are good they won't answer.

 

I believe your chain was yanked on this one. I can't imagine any traffic cop (or any other cop for that matter) seeing something that they believed was this serious a safety hazard, and not making an immediate traffic stop on the truck to check it out.

I am basing this more on what I would have done when I was on the job. Not on whether the caller number is blocked or not.

I do believe you handled it the correct way however. Because you just never can tell.

 

All it takes is a cell phone with web access to find out the phone #. I guess you'll never know. But it does sound strange him calling you instead of stopping the truck. Probably someone with a big imagination that thought a normal person calling would be tossed in the trash, so he pretended to be a cop.

You're going to make me tell one of my embarrassing moments, lol. But I'll tell it and maybe someone will learn from it. I know i did.

I had a cotter pin shear and the safety catch popped up too. I was pulling a lowboy and just dropped a backhoe off on a job site. I was on some rough roads and then I went across a dam on the TN river and I hit a huge bump I didn't know was there. The trailer jarred up and I looked in the mirror to see the trailer break free and start hugging the wall. I immediately slowed the truck down and here come the trailer. It wasn't stopping I had to gas on it to stay in front of it and we both slowed together. Luckily we were in a slight curve that forced the trailer against the wall. If it come off the wall, I was prepared to let it come under the dump to keep it from going wildly out of control. Traffic was all around and with the grace of god, nothing happened.

I went back there and both chains snapped and part of a nub of the cotter pin was still hanging on the little chain. That's what saved me from getting a ticket. The state police and rescue crews come because they heard a truck turned over on the dam. Traffic was backed up for a couple miles at least. I was so embarrassed.

I jacked her back up and hooked up good enough to get it off the dam. Then I fixed it right and went on home. I'm extra careful now when I pull an empty lowboy. They will beat on the top of a pintle hook. The next day they had that lane shut down for repairs.

 

This is simple, a car or truck seen what they thought was an open pintle and called CHP, giving them the company name, truck number, and location. CHP not having an officer in the area looked up the phone number and made the call. CHP is not all the evil like people say, Every one I have ever delt with has been proffesional and fair.

 

You could very well be right here. I'm a simple kind of guy. This is a simple answer. So why the hell didn't I think of it?

 

hey we all have our off days Don

 

We all know an officer would have pulled them over and went for the dollars and for safety.