Overweight Tickets -Does company have any skin in the game?

Even if the company doesn't pay for CAT (or other CERTIFIED scale) tickets, how much is your time worth? Is $12 really gonna break the bank? I'll bet a service failure will cost you more short and long term, not to mention if you have to make the load legal at the DOT scale.
Let's say you make an average of $15/hr. You get slapped with an overweight fine (this could be anywhere from $0.01/lb to...make up a number).
You also have to wait a minimum of an hour for someone to get to the scale with the equipment to make you legal. Sometimes they have to bring out a rolling dock to get the forklift in and out of the trailer. They're not in a hurry, you could be there a few hours. Now how much are you out?

 

you can either take the standard deduction or itemize. not both.

 

While all that is true, the fact the company isn't willing to pay for scale tickets points to a deeper problem than trying to work around a scale ticket.

 

Always, been on the driver.You can afford to pay the scale , or pay more attention when loading, so you have a better idea of where the weight is

 

Beware the company telling you to give them the overweight ticket and they will pay it. The ONLY way to be sure an overweight ticket is paid is for the company to give you the money/check or for you to pay it. Once the ticket disappears into "the company" you may have no idea if it's paid or not. You do not want to find out later thst ticket was never paid.

It's a scummy oufit that risks your license forbthe price of a Cat scale fee.

 

I would dump em. Worked for a place for 3 days, and on the 3rd day they pulled that crap. I said sayanora. Dont jack up your good standing and driving record to benefit someone like that.

 

He can protect his driving record by getting a scale ticket, even if he has to pay out of pocket.
Then while still working in this pandemic he can search out another company, and wait for the right time to make a move.

Quitting right now would not be the smartest thing to do.

 

Hahahahaha. The rims on the one axle look like theyre about 1/10th of an inch from making contact with the pavement.

 

No worries. He's just going down the road a a mile or twenty...