Been awhile since I've been on here but have a question . I noticed another topic similar but it involved PERMITTED LOAD . Is there anything in the regulations that explicitly allows us to travel to a public scale from a shipper to verify weight , without being issued a ticket if overweight during that move from or back to shipper ? I actually got an axle overweight ticket in Georgia with a load of chicken awhile back for this exact scenario. It was my understanding we had a safe passage between shipper and nearest scale . I wanted to fight it but honestly was cheaper to pay ticket than take time off and have crappy load to and from home to do so LOL .
Doubt it, Illinois used to wait for us to leave the rail before we had a chance to scale to see if it was legal. 8/10 times weight on BoL was wrong.
I actually left a shipper in Illinois, crossed the STATE DOT SCALE 3 miles down road then since I got the green light indicating load was legal I didn't stop at cat scale ... next scale I went to was overweight on axle with no weight shift . Even had the first scale on video but they gave me the ticket anyway .
Just because a scale gave you a green light doesn't mean anything. Scale master could have been busy watching tiktok
No such safe passage to weigh the load. You are subject to a fine/penalty if you exceed the legal weight for the road. Period.
Had a similar thing happen to me. BOL weight was 33,000 lbs. Got pulled into 2 weigh stations in California with green lights from both. Crossed into Oregon and got popped for being 1700 lbs over on tandems. Actual cargo weight was around 44,000 lbs.
