Refusing illegal loads

That's what I said earlier. When a company starts getting under your skin, it's time to move on.

There's a difference between a short easy fix 24 hour problem which you deal with than the hate/hate relationship that won't go away.

It sounds like the guy already quit?

 

I have a atlas that shows the states that go by tire size. DOT isn't very often going to check your axle size if they allow 20k and you roll over a scale they might look at your tires but I have never been checked for the axle rating. You can get new door tags made so their useless anyways. The information is very easy find if you take the time and look.

 

Well then the atlas is wrong too. Here's CA for you. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/trucks/trucksize/weight.htm.

Maybe you haven't been checked long enough because I've been checked more than once for GVRW by the tag on the door. Or maybe I should say you might be getting checked in a state that is very lax on weights like WY,MT, and so forth. When I hauled over weights OTR the one thing I learned the most is all the states are different.

 

I might be wrong but from my experience with the DOT is that each state interpruts their own laws and the federal laws are looked over by the states at times.

 

Thats what my atlas says for Ca. Other states are different and thats what I'am trying to say. Every state wants something different and worse of all states almost treat the same thing differently diifferent times. My last permit gave me up to 50k on the drives and how many people have drives rated to 50k unless you do real heavy stuff. Guy up the street has a 4 axle truck and Ny wants him to run 16 ply tires but no one else has ever told him that. It's all very confuseing or they make harder then it should be.

 

Ohio doesn't care what your truck is rated for. You can legally put 20k on a 12k axle, all they care about is the weight per inch of tire. If your truck isn't up to the task that's your problem. All the state cares about is protecting the road. KY is the same way, 48k on my drives and it doesn't matter what axles/suspension/tires you have.

 

We all have 425 floats on our trucks and the scale master at the scale on I76 wb before I71 gave a verbal warning to one of our drivers for being over 12k on his steer axle. I was a little confused because I thought with floats we could weigh 20k on a steer.

 

Some states are different, KY only allows me 12k on my steering where Ohio allows 17k for normal 11" wide tires but 20k for floats. Same with Michigan, and others only allow the higher weights on state routes.