Having a truck placed out of service is not only inconvenient, and potentially embarrassing, it’s frightfully expensive. The fine is just the tip of the iceberg. You have an unhappy driver on your hands, and your customer is probably no happier. On top of that you have the cost of the parts and the service call to make repairs that could have been done at home. Gee, if only someone other than a DOT inspector had noticed the problem....
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