will i get a ticket if...

oh I have a question about a comment, what happens if you get a fine issued and must pay on the spot? dont know about others but I dont keep a wallet full of cash...

 

They will take a com check.

 

I just payed $151 for being 1600 over in cali. Scaled at the shiper. I quess there scales lied.lol. dot gave me the ticket for 600 over.

 

In do not trust shippers scales unless they have a current calibration certificate. I'll scale there get a print out from them, then head to the nearest CAT scale.

 

I was stopped me on the scale with a red light, I waited and waited and waited for the instructions. Finally I pulled behind and went in to find the guy sleeping on the panel having pushed the button some how.

 

Its a safe bet you will be pulled around for being that far over. Sometimes they will give you an opportunity to adjust it to the proper weight, but do not count on it. You got lucky on that one. A few hundred pounds over may not bother them if another set is underweight, but 2000 is way too much.

 

First off, all states with scales issue tickets. What would be the point of the scale if they didn't. Secondly, most companies have in their contract that the driver is responsible for over weight fines. (they may payroll deduct it)

 

My experience is that the DOT is more concerned with the total gross weight, than axle weights. I got an overweight ticket rolling the scales just south of the Budweiser plant in Ft. Collins, CO back in December 2008. I was over gross. (I was hauling pallets and they stuffed a 53' trailer with hardwood floor to ceiling the entire trailer. I was only licensed to 54,000 lbs. and I weighed 58,500 lbs.) I had to pay a fine and buy a day pass for the excessive weight. My company reimbursed me for the cost, but I was real careful after that when I thought I was close. Another time I was pulling a load of pasta sauce from Albany, NY to Denver and they loaded that thing all screwed up. My drives were sitting at 36,500 lbs., but my total was only 76,650 lbs. My tandems were slide all the way forward and my 5th wheel slider was all the was forward also. Nothing I could do would shift the weight any more than I already had. I was more than 50 miles from the shipper when I scaled, so I was stuck with the load. I made it all the way to the first scale house on I70 in KS before I got nailed. Interestingly, I only got a "Warning" and was sent on my way when I told the DOT guy that I did all I could and it was just going to be stuck that way. He told me to avoid the scales in CO, smiled, and wished me a good day. I think it was because I wasn't over gross. I also think the morons at the shipper must have double stacked the freight in the nose. Oh well. The longer you drive a truck, the more you learn about all that can happen and how to prevent it.

 

Not according to my 2013 Rand McNally atlas...

Never had LSP mail me any type of citation. I've had all levels of inspection done and got the paperwork with any issues or clean and haven't been given any citation via the mail.

Not saying it doesn't happen just never had it happen to me.

 

So the receiver accepted a load with a broken seal?

Scales are funny. I 55 south near bolingbrook IL has hauled me in bobtail twice in the last three days, only to get the bypass lane. But when I had an empty trailer I got the green light on my prepass???

The Rand atlas is very accurate, but not 100%!

Mikeeee