The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

If a man was to willingly pull into a scale house, and upon being asked to bring documentation in, brought in all kinds of religious paperwork, and opened with “Do you know Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ?”
You figure that man would get more or less tickets than he was gonna get before he walked in?

 

I figured they try to get me out of there as quick as possible

 

Dunno...but it sure would be fun to watch.

 

I haven't hauled OS/OW through Tennessee in a few years and I didn't know about the 10' wide regulation. I left the truck stop before him and he ended up passing me in Texarkana later in the day so he rolled through Arkansas and in to Texas with no markings.

 

He’s most likely bootlegging it but…Texas doesn’t require banners or flags at any dimensions for the trucks, but they do for pilot cars. I know it sounds crazy but I’ve read through the actual regulations and can’t find anything. Maybe someone can show me something I missed.

 

I think @Jubal Early Times bears a strong resemblance to a young Jerry Falwell and that helps.

 

Unfortunately, if I read the site regulations correctly, you'd be mistaken.
OS/OW Permit FAQs

Either way, in my experience, if it's over the edge of the trailer, it's OS, and it runs with flags and banners, and it charged accordingly. Since most loads that matched that criteria that I drove, needed permits which the company got and I had to read them, I'll agree with you that a banner isn't required until it's 10 feet wide, however, flagging is still required and at night, marker lights are required.
OS/OW Permit FAQs <--Switch to the "Permit Processing" tab.

Had to buy those enroute one time just for that reason, so the pictures he shows are still in violation, and after reading more of the posts, it appears he went into AR and TX the same way and both have similar flagging requirements as they also limit width to 8'6", as do most all the lower 48 states. I have never driven a load over the edge without at least flags according to the permits requirements, so I have to agree with Gliding ProStar that the driver is not legal, and hence Hall of Shame candidate.

 

Just for the fact of not even having any flags at the corners was enough for me to make it a Hall of Shame candidate. I normally don't pick on drivers too much but I've seen alot of crap trucks and junk loads here lately so I might give some more scrutiny to them.

 

you are wrong. And you are wrong about Texas. You also don’t know that he was running at night.

 

I’m being a bit of a devil’s advocate here (I don’t really have anything better to do at the moment LOL), but going back to my earlier comment... from the angle of the photo it sure looks like the two units would have fit entirely on the trailer if turned sideways, which also would have better distributed the weight, so if I’m correct on that account then it is still worthy of the hall of shame, in my opinion. Unless there is a good reason for facing them this way that I am missing.



Going off the rule of thumb that most stake pockets are 2 feet apart, then that would be 8 feet right there.