overweight tickets

They won't raise the rates. They'll replace you with new drivers willing to work for less. New drivers with nice clean records since they've never driven before. What could go wrong.

 

copy and paste again

 

Seems like your asking for quotes time after time doesn't make sense to me either! I'll try it in English for you one more time.


Basically any and All Roadside Inspections as well as any other violation are a pass/fail test of you and your cmv. A weight inspection whether at a temporary (portable) scale or fixed location is a violation of the law. It's pass/fail,period. Just because in the past sometimes a scale would let a driver slide for slight overages it has never meant they had to. If they pull you around back it is a failure to pass inspection and therefore will affect the driver's safety rating, period. The rules do not have to spell out every individual item that is included. For example the law about inoperative lights does not mention every individual light on the tractor/trailer but if any one of them is inoperative it's a failure of the inspection. A "slight" leak in an air hose is a failure of that hose inspection, a 1/2 flat tire will fail an inspection, a damaged or missing wiper blade will fail the inspection; the LAW doesn't spell out those particular circumstances but they are still a pass/fail situation and would Not pass inspection. No matter how much you want those two overweight incidents not to count an YOUR safety record they are already part of it. Your are now being rated as well as the company. As I posted in an earlier thread like the song says..."People get ready"...it's already started and those 2 infractions will stick with you until 36 months have passed.
Hope this helps.

 

Anything vague can and will be used against you. Figure it that way.

 

That's probably the case. Consider the mess with Minnesota... the state DOT has been enforcing FMCSA rules via tickets with no legal authority to enforce those rules since before last March. I wouldn't expect the gov't (feds or Minnesota) to feel any responsibility to clean-up their mess before they run some otherwise good drivers out of employment via CVSA2010.

 

I received a reply from DOT. The fellow that responded to me said he will answer my questions specifically, however in the mean time sent me some links for me to go over...and there are quite a few of them.

I'll post this one which I feel does answer your question in regards to "Overweight Tickets."

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMS_factsheet.pdf

If you go to Cargo Related, you'll see that Overweight Tickets ARE included in their matrix.