Overweight citations. Need advice ASAP

This container is under 40K, our empty full of fuel 35.5 In any other state we would not have any problems. Now we are sitting at the scale, and I have no idea how to handle this situation

 

We are puling a step deck, so trick with chassis would't work.

I am so pissed, it is unbelievable! Customer will not allow to open container and reload. We are sitting under this load for 2 days now. I called the agent (like all freaking day), advisor (which suggested for us not to take containers anymore), landstar customer service.....
I was asked if we can load 40ft high cube container on load levelers to utilize upper deck.... The last thing is that we are waiting on crane and another trailer to take this crap of our trailer.
I do not know how other BCO's handling containers out of California.

 

Not our case. We are over only on the axle. Anyway LS just left us on the scale for today. We will see what happens tomorrow

 

Landstar just told us that it was our responsibility to catch the weight of the container before we took it. Now we have to pick up a chassis at port, pay for a crane to move container on them and bring the load to MI, then deadhead back with container. We have to leave our trailer in CA