Every single time! It better be in there, or I’m not pulling the trailer. I make it a habit of looking in the nose box for the registration, then I check the integrity of the box itself. Next, I look at the trailer inspection sticker, followed by looking at the air connector halves and the electrical coupling box. That’s the first part of my trailer pre-trip.
Never have looked as it was never mentioned at school or training. I suppose I should start. Great job passing with the exception of registration. I've been fortunate to have not been inspected in the nearly 2 years I've been driving. I thought for sure I was going to be inspected couple months ago when DOT had me sit on the scale for about 2 minutes before giving me the green light while empty.
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I even searched some YouTube videos and only one of the three checked for the trailer registration. I'm not making any excuses but I learned something today. I didn't post this to justify anyting, but this is a teaching lesson for new drivers. I'm not sure how my company is going to treat this, but a clean level 3 inspection is worth $200 to me. Guess I'll just have to check my paycheck to see how it goes.
I did get the quarterly sticker on my window for the next 3 months. He was putting it on my window when I brought him the trailer registration. For whatever that's worth.
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My first one was in New Mexico and it was a level 2. Today entering Wyoming from Utah I had a level three. Everything was perfect except for one thing... there was no copy of the trailer registration. The inspection sheet was there. Called my compliance lady and she had it faxed to the weigh station... she asked me why I didn't catch that when I did my pre-trip? I seriously don't remember being instructed about that in CDL School and my trainer never checked it went as long as I was with him. Maybe I missed it but I even went on here to the pre-trip instructions and I didn't see it mentioned. So an honest question for all of you on here... How often do you see if the trailer registration is in the holder?
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