Overweight loads

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by txviking, Oct 1, 2009.

  1. Half a Load

    Half a Load Light Load Member

    ALWAYS KEEP A PAPER TRAIL!!!

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  3. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    Paper trails are fine unless they can lead to a ticket for being 40,620 over gross because you bought fuel.

    No paper trail = easier to play stupid.
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  4. Lilbit

    Lilbit Road Train Member

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    Hey half a load, do you run stuff like that in your pic in WI? Just curious because we see a lot of those tower parts near our place.
     
  5. Lilbit

    Lilbit Road Train Member

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    Had a load about the same number of years ago that yours is that was not over gross, but over axle. Couldn't balance the thing either. Company told me via qualcomm to run with it, and when I got pulled around back at a Maryland scale, the ticket got written to the company, not to me, as I told the officer what was going on, that I couldn't balance the load, and the company told me to run with it, and that I could show him the qualcomm message to verify that. Never heard any more about it either.

    That being said, I was probably lucky, and most people won't get the same response.
     
  6. dieselbear

    dieselbear Road Train Member

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    It's all good to play stupid, until you get the huge arse fine. Then there is no playing.
     
  7. Jfaulk99

    Jfaulk99 Road Train Member

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    Oh I agree. I can admit I've only gotten one ticket I didn't deserve, the rest were all me.
     
  8. Flying Finn

    Flying Finn Heavy Load Member

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    Heck, I've run overweight. I just had my boss pull the permits for us to do it. We bill back the permit costs to whoever is paying for the load. I ran this way with an injection moulding 'clamp' that weighed over 50,000#. Ran Canada for most of the trip 'till I had to drop into the US. Got my permits before crossing over. Hit a scale in WA. Scale Master had me going over then suddenly the "STOP" light pops on. I stop, and out comes the scale master. I already had my papers and he just verified them.

    No stress, no bad feelings, no chance of fines. Run all legal and life is good.
     
  9. jokerl90

    jokerl90 Light Load Member

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    Some stories (all from about 25 years ago, little sketchey on details)
    1. Loaded in Lima,OH going to FL. Ended up heavy on my drives but ok on gross. No amount of sliding 5th wheel and trailer tandems would fix it. I did figure out that if I was almost empty on fuel (less than 25%) I would be legal. The only scales I had to worry about was in GA, 3 top to bottom. hit Ringold with less than a quarter tank fuel, no problem. Buy just enough fuel to get to next scales, same story no problem. Getting close to the last scales in south GA I chickend out and bought a little too much fuel and got pulled in. At the time the fine in GA was a penny a hundredweight, so I paid 10 or 15 dollars and was glad to get Georgia behind me.

    2. Was living in Alabama, sitting around talking with some friends who are drivers, logging and regional types. I tried telling them about Ga's odd laws concerning weight. That they will allow you to move the product by hand to make your weight correct but will not allow you to slide tandems or the 5th wheel.They all laughed and told me I didn't know what I was talking about and was a dumb #####. The kind of abuse only true friends can give you. A few months later one of them was at the LaGrange Ga scales moving cases of Clorox in the back of a van trailer, and it was summer time too! When he told me about it, I called him the dumb #####. If they had not given me so much crap before, he would have known he could have paid a small fine and went on. ( penny a hundredweight again).:biggrin_25522:

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    Was crossing the scales at Slidell,La. When the scale house told me I was heavy on the drives and to slide my trailer tandems up some. I had been running hard and was tired, the kind of tired it actually hurt to not be able to crawl into that sleeper.
    So I get out, go to the trailer tandems and notice they are a little "####eyed". So begins the trips between the trailer tandems and the truck. Bump the truck forward or back a little then go try to pull the handle on the trailer tandems. Then repeat. After several tries finally get it to release. At that very moment, the guy in the scale house walks out and says," Were fixin to close, you can just go on":biggrin_25516:
     
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  10. Everett

    Everett Crusty Shorts, What???

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    :biggrin_2556:simple math really, overweight == heated up brakes, == brake fade out fast, hence when that van of hippiees pulls out front you no brakes, ==enuff said:biggrin_2556:
     
  11. Powder Joints

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    Your formula is full of crap. The brakes are rated for more than the 80,000. I have the same number and type of brakes on my axles as a semi.

    Mine are rated to stop a minimum of 92500. So you want us to believe that a semi loaded to 81000 is a threat.

    I pull loads between 80000 and 90000 all the time and have no problems stopping the truck.

    Its back to the basics, following distance is everything.
     
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