would I get a ticket?

There was one time in IN where I was taking the boss's truck to the mill with a load...probably 10-15K overweight, no trailer registration (the tags were actually off a gooseneck trailer), half my straps worn pretty good, an airline patched together with a barbed hose splice and a couple hose clamps (we'd tore it in the woods the day before), and that was just a few off the first of many pages he had going on the "violations" he was finding with this truck. During the course of the inspection, though, I was doing my best to offer up reasonable-enough sounding excuses for what he was finding wrong...then I noticed his sunglasses. "Hey, nice glasses!" I said. Caught him off guard, because they were just the cheap $5 AOSafety glasses with the dark tint. I knew that, because I was wearing the exact same ones. Started talking about anything BUT the truck he was inspecting...from the sunglasses being nice because they are cheap so you don't have to worry about them getting broken/scratched...but they are safety glasses, so they protect your eyes riding motorcycles...yeah? What kind of bike? Etc...

Walked away with a bunch of warnings...

 

Overhang isn't the problem. It's when it's divisible like that load you got pictured and what i tried to haul. THAT'S the problem. NON divisible loads are ok. That load you got pictured with the coil is a disivible load. I don't know about other states. But like i stated. something like that is legal in cali. Not in utah and arizona and nevada. That back section would have had to come off.

I'm not sure on 53's. rules seem to be trickier. Most of my OTR has been with a 48.

 

Oregon makes you wear full dress. Don't remember what their requirement is for rear overhang. But you defenitly need full clothing even though your under 10 feet.
Oregon also has lower bridge weights. I hauled one load that was 1,000 pounds under national legal limit but 1,500 pounds OVER Oregon legal limit. 4 axle truck and trailer.

 

DOT officer in Fla told me and I quote:

"The law is 53',.. Not 53'6"

That was with a load of PVC pipe that I had sticking 6 inches over my rear.

The divisible load from Ut to Il,.. chalk it up to dumb luck. I've gotten away with things that I thought were so blatant,.. yet get hammered for the dumbest of things.

Wy POE said I had to cover up the orange triangle on the back of a large farm tractor I was hauling. Said 4 wheelers might get confused.

Hurst

 

Yep,every overweight ticket I've ever gotten was a fine first and then can't leave till I get legal

 

Mine was a ticket then a $7 trip permit. My truck was the only one that did not have annual overweight permits. All the others have 30k overweight permits annually.

 

All mine have been just a fine so far but only had 2 in VA