Hi Guys, I am new in Canadian trucking industry and would like to ask a question regards accesibility of truck scales. I haul heavy equipment for one of edmonton company and just today received a ticket for being overloaded 1.800 kg on triaxle on the back. I was moving stuff which was sheduled for yesterday and just to get on front of dispatch guy loaded two rollers and gets as above 1800 kg on back. On the first go my employer said he will pay ticket as I was doing my job and guys on road was waiting for stuff allready, then after some time they change decision that I could play on busy roads with rollers and maybe load them in diferent way and I will pay my ticket myself, I didnt mention that I was picking up one roller in diferent location and other iin diferent and both was going to two diferent location on one way so the first to drop was in back of trailer and second to drop was in front.
no matter of excusses, I am looking for some regulation regards accessibility of weight scales as we have no scales in our yard, we cannot use public ones as they mostly have DOT on them and when you over you ###...d anyway and the company do not pay for using private ones.
Any ideas what to use in this case so the guys change their mind, I allready told them that as from today no matter what everything goes in single loads as I have no scale in my eyes and I want avoid more tickets. obviously I have gaugs by trailer but their are not accurate, when they say I'm over the gauge shows 65 PSI on back airbags.
Please please give me any ideas, any acts, anything I can told my boss so he will pay fine
Ty
Truck Scales
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by freshdriverluk, May 20, 2015.
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$10 to scale a load... $200 fine for being over 1800kg over on the back. I can see how you made the mistake. Idk about Canada I'm sure the laws are the same. Company doesn't have to pay the fine only thing they need to say is "driver should have scaled the load" that's the way it works.
As for the excuse that dot is crawling around the scales if it's at a truckstop and it's a private area he can't do a god #### thing about it until you pull back out on the road because you're on private property.
I used to run heavy everywhere cows and grain we used to race eachother to the elevator to beat the state boy to avoid overweight tickets. Yea NE dot is a bunch of jackwagons...Rusty Trawler and freshdriverluk Thank this. -
You'll have to get used to what your air bag pressure gauge says for different loads and scale where ever you can until you get it figured out. I pull a super-b but on my tri-axle group 71 psi gives me 24,000 kgs.
I was in the Hinton scale when a fellow came in from town to use the scale while it was open. He was over weight and, yup, they gave him a ticket even though he was being diligent coming out to check it out. They don't care, it's free money for the government. Although a sympathetic judge might help.freshdriverluk Thanks this. -
thanks guys, I will need to speak with my boss about it as we have no scale on our yard, other thing is we mostly drive around Edmonton so
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http://www.daiscale.com/location-guide.html?province=Alberta
Also have a cat scale at the Road king truckstop, which is north of the scale house.Last edited: May 21, 2015
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If you're in the area of Acheson you can use the self weigh one on the north side of the intersection of 16 and 60 north of the Husky for free.
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Here is my scale story. Picked up a sealed Hersheys load on the MO/IL border literally. Tandems were set in our standard position. No way to look inside to see how it was loaded. Pilot scale was on the other side of the DOT. So it was called Lake Charles I believe. I was over by only 200 lbs and the guys still gave me a ticket even after my good explanation.
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That happens in a few states fisher, but lucky for most of us it does not happen often. With a box and an air ride trailer (works with spring also, but not as noticeable) you will learn over time to kind of tell where the balance point is located. It is not 100%, but I can normally get within 200lbs of legal even with a 79,000 lb load. Just slide them all the way forward or back, then as you slide toward the middle watch the trailer.
If you do them all the way back, as you slide them back forward you will see the nose come up as you slide. At some point you will see it level off for a couple feet, then it will start going up faster. That in the middle point is the balance point of the overhang on the tandoms and the weight of the nose. You want the pins locked within that zone. It is not 100%, but should be close once you get good at it.
Would not work on his tri axle setup. But works with a box pretty good.akfisher Thanks this. -
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