Fighting an overweight ticket

My experience was the dot sent a bill to the company I worked for and sent me on my way. And that was in Florida the truck was registered for under 26000 and I was 2,000 heavy.

 

A plate cannot be seized. Sounds like a lunch counter tale.

 

CAT scale.

Problem solved. Weigh, if overweight, return to shipper, run around scales, or run the gauntlet.

Options.

 

Yeah, Ohio can’t seize a Michigan plate, they can issue the violation but not remove the plate. The plate is not the limiting factor, the gross sticker weight of the truck is.

Michigan may issue a 33k plate for intrastate work but you can not get one for interstate work, apportioned plates are issues at that point and you have to have an ifta account setup at that point.

the other issue is you would not be forced to return to a weigh station, which is even odder.

 

If this is real sound's like a very well organized gypsy scam or you had entered the twilight zone.

 

Just want to add this, from the MSP contact I have, he said IF the truck appears to be overweight, and deemed unsafe for the driver to move it, the truck would have been put out of service in Ohio and would have insisted that either the weight is adjusted by removing some of the load or it is towed. The more important question is how the driver didn't notice how heavy it is in the first place?

 

You never admit to knowing you were overweight, ever