Senior trooper Monty Dial is retiring. So says The Trucker - "Where The News is First" What does that mean anyway? Oh well, that's a photo of Dial to the left. I imagine a "senior" trooper is one that achieves such a lofty status when he or she is not intelligent or politically savvy enough to pass the test required to be a corporal or sergeant trooper. Obviously he didn't have the right stuff (or rabbi) even with all his work on truckers radio, to be a lieutenant, captain or other high ranking super- trooper. I think I heard him a few times somewhere. I never, other than the occasional check-in with Evan Lockridge, listen to anything specifically targeted to truckers. Dial had been with the Texas Department of Public Safety for 28 years. That's a long time checking log books, weighing trucks and bust'n truckers chops. It is reported by the pinhead trucking media, that many truckers enjoyed listening to him. I cannot confirm or deny that. I do know that he was part of a bureaucracy that most truckers despise - that being the DOT. It doesn't matter if he worked in Texas or New York. His kind are almost all the same no matter where you drive your rig. And now he is retiring and turning in his citation book, his FMCSA rules and regulations and his trooper cowboy hat to someone else who is surely going to make some other truckers life miserable. I'm all for safety, but I don't like troopers, police, cops, state police, 3-day alliances, the DOT or any other group of individuals who sport a gun and a badge and play judge and jury with my livelihood. I've been a victim of their lies and nonsense and I have no respect for any of them. Senior Trooper Monty Dial - one less DOT cop to worry about. The photo credit is http://www.olblueusa.org/askthelaw/TrooperDial.html. It might be copywrited. If Dial or whoever owns it (the Texas DPS) has a problem with me using it, I'll remove and find some other career "flatfoot" to support my post.
Friday, September 12, 2008
One less DOT cop to worry about...
Senior trooper Monty Dial is retiring. So says The Trucker - "Where The News is First" What does that mean anyway? Oh well, that's a photo of Dial to the left. I imagine a "senior" trooper is one that achieves such a lofty status when he or she is not intelligent or politically savvy enough to pass the test required to be a corporal or sergeant trooper. Obviously he didn't have the right stuff (or rabbi) even with all his work on truckers radio, to be a lieutenant, captain or other high ranking super- trooper. I think I heard him a few times somewhere. I never, other than the occasional check-in with Evan Lockridge, listen to anything specifically targeted to truckers. Dial had been with the Texas Department of Public Safety for 28 years. That's a long time checking log books, weighing trucks and bust'n truckers chops. It is reported by the pinhead trucking media, that many truckers enjoyed listening to him. I cannot confirm or deny that. I do know that he was part of a bureaucracy that most truckers despise - that being the DOT. It doesn't matter if he worked in Texas or New York. His kind are almost all the same no matter where you drive your rig. And now he is retiring and turning in his citation book, his FMCSA rules and regulations and his trooper cowboy hat to someone else who is surely going to make some other truckers life miserable. I'm all for safety, but I don't like troopers, police, cops, state police, 3-day alliances, the DOT or any other group of individuals who sport a gun and a badge and play judge and jury with my livelihood. I've been a victim of their lies and nonsense and I have no respect for any of them. Senior Trooper Monty Dial - one less DOT cop to worry about. The photo credit is http://www.olblueusa.org/askthelaw/TrooperDial.html. It might be copywrited. If Dial or whoever owns it (the Texas DPS) has a problem with me using it, I'll remove and find some other career "flatfoot" to support my post.
