Who would have run this?

I would run it. When I was running local in Norcal I would routinely be 80,350-80,400 and roll through the cottonwood NB scale everyday. They didn't even send me to their static scale

 

Was this a produce load?

 

I know it's different being more local, but you guys would flip if you saw some of the numbers pop up on the inbounds in the grain lines at the river. Its not uncommon to see 90K cross them. We haul our own but those guys get paid by the bushel and I've heard them say load it heavy and drive it fast to make money.

 

when I hauled chips and sawdust it was nothing to be 80-87k all night

 

I would have run it. But then again, wearing the same company uniform you're wearing going through the coops would have been pushing the envelope......

 

Not necessarily... there are more rules to it than just that.
1) Your APU needs to be able to start and run if asked
2) You MUST have the APU exemption certificate from the manufacturer
3) You must not be a smart ###
Not all states have the APU exemption, and the ones that do? Well it's up to the DOT officer to give you the break or not. If you're a smart ### with them, they'll reciprocate with a ticket.

 

I don't run overweight period. It's my license, and it's too valuable to risk for a few bucks. And just because you loaded out 2 or 300 over doesn't mean it'll stay that way. Run into a little bad weather like rain or snow and it can add 2 - 400 pounds easily.

 

What states take your license for being a couple hundred pounds overweight?

Here in OK and TX, we haul frac sand and are regularly over weight. Lots of times you get loaded by kids who have no concept of how to load a trailer for correct axle weights. We watch our air bag gauge, and get it in the ball park, but still over on at least one axle most of the time. I've been doing this for over 3 years now, and only ever heard of ONE driver getting a weight ticket, and he was over 1,000 over on his drives when he crossed the eastbound super-coup scales on I-40 at the TX-OK line. And he did NOT lose his CDL over it.

I do read that some states are not as lax as Oklahoma. But, like I said, in the time I've been here, and the amount of loads our company has hauled that were a little over weight, to only have one ticket is pretty indicative of just how lenient the state has been with us.