Man going 101 MPH in Ohio has 7 DUI convictions!
From the Toledo Blade:
“Bond was set at $15,000 yesterday in Bryan Municipal Court for a Minneapolis man arrested for felony drunken driving after state troopers allegedly clocked him driving 101 mph on the Ohio Turnpike in Williams County about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Frederick D. Brown, 50, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, open container, driving with a suspended license, and speed.
Troopers said that in the last 20 years, Mr. Brown has had seven convictions for drunken driving in Minnesota and New York, which made his most recent arrest a fourth-degree felony. It was his 12th arrest for drunken driving in his lifetime, troopers said.”
12 arrests! 7 convictions! You’ve got to love our court systems where a guy can get convicted driving drunk six times, and still be driving around. I mean, I wonder what his sentence was when he was caught on the 6th time? Hopefully, a judge in the Bryan Municipal Court will use some common sense and make this idiot a guest of the State of Ohio for a very long time.
Vacation
Unfortunately, from June 17 until June 26, I will be on my first vacation in 11 years. I will return to work on June 27. Why is this unfortunate? I hate vacation for one thing. I also hate being out of touch for that long. I mean, what’s going on in the news, what if a giant new customer called, what’s my fantasy baseball team doing, how are the cats? However, sometimes you have to do what you gotta do. It’s ok, though, because my girlfriend doesn’t have Internet access, so she can’t read this. Anyway, all Arnold Safety Consulting business will have to wait until June 27 when I return. Bon voyage!
The DVD package
I’d like to make a few more points about the DVD package. One, in addition to the package, you get access to me. You have questions, great, call me, and I’ll do my best to answer your questions about the safety regulations, as part of the charge for the DVD package. I’m pretty generous with my time. I have an owner-operator I worked with about two years ago from Elizabethtown, PA. She still occasionally calls me with questions, sometimes on a Sunday no less. But I take her calls. Small business doesn’t run on a Monday-Friday, 9-5 basis. On the blog, it’s a fine line I have to walk, where on the one hand, I need to put informative and interesting content here to keep people coming back, but on the other, I don’t want to post the whole DVD package……..why buy when generous Eric is giving it away for free? Finally, I also offer a money-back guarantee. Basically it comes down to, ‘what’s your time worth to you?’ Why would you spend a week working and worrying about what rules you need to follow, when I can set you up in half a day?
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Eric Arnold is a Former Enforcement Agent with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and a leading expert on USDOT compliance for small businesses. Do you have a question for Eric Arnold? Email him at eric@arnoldsafety.com.
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R-r-r-r-r-r-ip!!!
Source: (New York Times) Inches Too Tall for Tunnel, Rig Plies It Anyway
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Eric Arnold is a Former Enforcement Agent with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and a leading expert on USDOT compliance for small businesses. Do you have a question for Eric Arnold? Email him at eric@arnoldsafety.com.
Arnold Safety simplifies D.O.T. Compliance for commercial vehicle operators. Get Eric Arnold’s USDOT Compliance Guide, DVD, & Regulations at ArnoldSafety.Com.
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King James takes on Tim Duncan and the Spurs!
I know, most of you hate NBA basketball, because there’s too many fouls, not enough scoring, nobody can shoot, etc., etc., etc. For the most part I agree, but this is the first Finals I’ve been interested in since the glorious run of the 76′ers in the summer of 2001. If you didn’t see Game 5 of the Cavs-Pistons series, then you missed one of the greatest games in NBA history. Double-OT, LeBron James scores 48, including 29 of the Cavs’ last 30 points, Cavs win. Last time I saw a game like that was probably Game 1 of the Sixers-Lakers series in 2001, when Iverson dominated in overtime, leading the Sixers to victory. Of course, they lost the next 4 straight, but that’s another story. The Cavs are a 5-1 underdog in the Finals, which is ridiculous. This will be a closer series than people think. Cleveland won both meetings between the two teams in the regular season. I’m backing the Cavs all the way. Will they get it done? Probably not, after all, they’re from Cleveland! Spurs in 6.
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Do it for the team.
Nice example of unsafe equipment found at a traffic stop in Pittsburgh
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07151/790407-53.stm
Excerpt from the article: “A Pittsburgh police officer on a safety enforcement patrol yesterday morning found an improperly hooked-up trailer and six undocumented workers. Officer Tom Jacques was near the Parkway West around 7 a.m. when he heard a chain dragging from a pickup truck pulling a trailer with a spool of electrical conduit. He pulled over the truck at the Route 51 exit of the inbound Parkway West near the Fort Pitt Tunnel and discovered the hitch was improperly secured.
“That’s the kind of thing that happens. Vehicles break away and you have a thousand-pound missile coming down the highway,” Officer Jacques said. “This is exactly what happened with the chipper accident.” The officer was referring to the April 13, 2006, accident on Route 8 in which Spencer Morrison of Cranberry and two of his triplet children were killed when a wood chipper broke away from inadequate moorings and struck their minivan. Bradley Demetras pleaded guilty to causing the accident by not securely fastening the trailer that broke away and last week was sentenced to nine to 18 months in jail.
Are you sure that your vehicles are being properly maintained, or are you using junk like that pictured here? Of course, the writer of the article neglects to mention who the contractor is, only that they were working for Verizon. You would think that large reputable companies would screen their contractors a little more closely. As for the ‘undocumented’ workers (read: illegal), I’m sure they are back at work today, driving unsafe equipment that Americans refuse to do.
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Eric Arnold is a Former Enforcement Agent with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and a leading expert on USDOT compliance for small businesses. Do you have a question for Eric Arnold? Email him at eric@arnoldsafety.com.
Arnold Safety simplifies D.O.T. Compliance for commercial vehicle operators. Get Eric Arnold’s USDOT Compliance Guide, DVD, & Regulations at ArnoldSafety.Com.
Regulators find more problems with trucking firm which burned up the Bay area highway
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_6036179
I am reading between the lines of this article, and I can tell you from experience, they are describing many, many motor carriers with which I have worked, both with the government, and on the private side of the fence. Of course, after one of your trucks destroys a major city freeway, you look much more foolish saying, “well, it was just recordkeeping violations, we’re not doing anything unsafe…”. If the district attorney in that neck of the woods was looking to make a statement, he could very easily indict Sabek Transportation criminally. If you don’t have your safety records together, all you can say is, “there, but for the grace of God, go I.”
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Eric Arnold is a Former Enforcement Agent with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and a leading expert on USDOT compliance for small businesses. Do you have a question for Eric Arnold? Email him at eric@arnoldsafety.com.
Arnold Safety simplifies D.O.T. Compliance for commercial vehicle operators. Get Eric Arnold’s USDOT Compliance Guide, DVD, & Regulations at ArnoldSafety.Com.
Learn more about Arnold Safety compliance consulting services at ArnoldSafety.Com.
