Today, I have 42,000 lbs. of steel beams headed down to Port Canaveral, which by the way, doesn’t exist according to my GPS.
Cross the GA/FL line and the signs “order” me to pull into the JAX I95 FL Ag inspection “station”. I have no agricultural, horticultural or aqua cultural that requires inspection.
Of course, Ray and Mary “Canadians” (snowbirds) are flying by with all sorts of plants, weird food from France and “weed” in their million dollar RV. But the FL Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services doesn’t care about them.
Neither do they seem to care about the 3 box trucks in front of me – one a sea container with goodness knows what inside. Trucks are starting to back out onto the interstate.
But the moron “inspector” stops me and wants to see my BOL. Why? I’ve asked this question now for years. This is nonsense. And no, I’m not filling out a 5 page form and paying FL $50 a year for a bypass transponder. Besides, if PrePass has been turned off by FL, so has the Fl AG bypass transponder.
I will not rest until these AG inspection “boondoggles” are closed or until I don’t have to waste my time going through them with a load of steel.
