Scaling at a weigh station while it is closed?

If It goes on csa.

But no point value?

 

FWIT

This happened to a coworker of mine. He was southbound on the I15 leaving Utah. Was some 1500 over Gross. Company refused to reimburse him, company policy refused to pay for CAT scales and instead relied on the "certified" scales at the shipper. Both he and I left the the company the same day and he was on the hook for the overweight ticket.

 

Mine went on csa. And it happened 2.5 years BEFORE csa even started.

So I only had it on record for 6 months.

 

Overweight tickets don’t. Go look up any carrier on SMS and you won’t see an overweight ticket listed. Or maybe every carrier runs around legal and doesn’t get overweight tickets.

 

I'm guessing OW is much more rarer then all the other violations but if one writes up the inspection. They most certainly do.

I've had two go on csa.
The last one was my fault for not having the drop axle down. 43000 on drives.

No ticket. Only csa.
The first one was a ticket and csa. 1500 over on trailer.

 

https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMS_AppendixA_ViolationsList.xlsx

Go ahead and have a look if you don’t believe me. Show me anywhere on that list where an overweight violation affects a carrier’s CSA in any shape or form. Prove me wrong and I’ll mail you $100.

The only thing on that list related to weight will probably be exceeding tire limits and possibly axle limits (meaning the weight rating of your steer axle or similar).

 

Funny you mentioned that...Last week I was coming through Richland IN, WB on I-70 grossed at 79500 lbs. My drives were probably at 34,500 lbs when the tanker quit rocking and rolling. I do have an APU, so can claim that exemption on any axle for 400 lbs. Scale was closed, I proceeded to bypass and parked somewhere around Indy for a 10 hr. I'm a Schneider tanker O/OP.

Woke up to a Schneider internal private message saying that "I have entered a strict weight enforcement area", and to please scale my truck as soon as possible. Of course I have to pay to scale, and I already made it through the scale that mattered. I wonder if they sent a nasty email to Schneider saying, hey we know your O/OP rolled through here heavy at 0400, pay us?

I didn't pay attention, because that was the last open scale between me and Chicago, where I unloaded.

 

Yup... grin... Any of these scales that don't get used most all the time. Try them. You might find a readout you can see through the window. I do every other week. Washington, HWY 14, just short of i82. Seems to be a courtesy of Washington DOT.

 

Back when I used to run Canada, the ON scale houses around the greater Toronto area used to leave their displays turned around when they were closed. They also gave you 1 chance to slide yourself legal before they ticketed you. The scalehouses in Qc, however, were never so accommodating. Once had to pull into a Quebec scalehouse during a HEAVY snowstorm. The guy gave me a red light before I got on the scale, and I had to wait while he took a pusher shovel to clear the scale before I could weigh!!!