DOT scale tolerance.

Not all states recognize APU's. Most don't care. Your over, you get a ticket.


I'd like to know who allows #2000 tolerance on any given axle.

Overweight has absolutely no effect on your CDL. You get a ticket, you pay the fine. It NEVER goes on your driving record. And will only go on your CSA if you get inspected.

Chalk it up as a learning experience and call it a day.

Montana allows 1,000 lbs. over gross. But, axles have to be legal. If your axles are tandems you won't be running the allowance. But if you got a spread, you're golden if the weight is on the back.

 

Inspection or not, overweight carries no CSA points. It is simply a fine. Pay it or fight it...up to you...only place it affects you is your wallet.

 

The only states who do not give you at least a 400 pound exemption for an APU (some give 550) are California, DC, Hawaii, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. You cannot be over on your gross weight, but your drives can be over up to the exemption with no ticket. Which in the op's case, he was over on his drives and tandems, but still under gross. If he moved it all to his drives, he'd only have been 300-400 pounds over, and if he had an APU, would have been good in all but 5 states (not counting Hawaii since the bridge isn't done yet)

 

The list I saw on landline only had 7 states allowing over on drives. But that was 3 years ago or more.

 

New Brunswick scale last year I got red lighted for a mandatory over width permit check. He's looking over the permits and logs and while he's doing that he's weighing guys as they show up. So this guy, he's only got an axle scale and he red lighted every axle on every truck that came across. He red lighted the steers, waited for the scale to stabilize to check the weight.....green light....red light the drives...wait fr the scale to stabilize.....green light......red light...... I'm thinking "OMFG buddy are you kidding me?"

 

The scale on the 15 in montana does that too. ^^^^^

Northbound from idaho.

 

"Overweight has absolutely no effect on your CDL. You get a ticket, you pay the fine. It NEVER goes on your driving record. And will only go on your CSA if you get inspected"

Can you provide a cite please?!

 

Those of us that have received overweight tickets. Can all say.

I've had 2 so far. One was with a local company hauling dirt from a job sight. The other was a learning experience in Oregon.

One went on my CSA. 6 months before CSA started. The other never saw either csa or mvr. Just a flat out citation.

 

An overweight ticket will not effect your CDL in any way. It is also a zero point CSA event. At the weights he put forth I'd run with it. I would make sure not to fuel before I crossed the IL. scale though.

 

Found it.

FMCSA regulation at 49 CFR 384.226 prohibits States from masking convictions, deferring imposition of judgment, or allowing an individual to enter into a diversion program that would prevent a CLP or CDL holder's conviction for any violation, in any type of motor vehicle, of a State or local traffic control law (other than parking, vehicle weight, or vehicle defect violations) from appearing on the Commercial Driver's License Information System driving record, whether the driver was convicted for an offense committed in the State where the driver is licensed or another State. The Agency views the practice of State courts dismissing citations after a guilty plea has been entered or following payment of a fine or mandatory contribution to a State program as a condition of dismissal, as “masking” of a commercial driver's violation of State or local traffic control laws.

Basically, once you pay (the system masks the event)