How far overweight can you be before getting fined?

80,400 if you have an APU.

 

240 pounds over on the drives. Well under gross. The limit is the limit, just like speed, you can be ticketed for 1 over.

 

Texas & Arkansas??? Over gross I think is the biggest buggaboo and will probably get you more tickets then over axle & under/at gross. All depends on the dude and what sort of mood their in. 900 over gross would probably have gotten you a ticket 7 out of ten times in AR/TX, where THEY RECOGNIZED IT. 500? ... you would rarely get questioned for. I put the over gross/axle threshold at 400-500. Anything higher and you're pressing your luck pretty hard.

Anything less then 500 lbs then you get into the likelihood of a scale that is not properly calibrated and many will contest any fine, so they tend to let this go. But beyond 500, it's hard to claim invalid weight and they are likely to ticket, and take their chances that the driver/company is not going to contest the ticket successfully.

 

California is 100 lbs. Thats it

 

Where ? I was 300 over at rainbow, told I told them I had fueled, they said, have a nice day.

 

You lucked out. Thats a good thing right. Usually up to100 lbs over gross is what chp allows for.

 

In my case I was over by 200 lbs in Georgia and got fined. I was over a total of 2200 on one axle. If I was at 2000 lbs and not 2200 lbs, the weigh master said he would have let me go. So basically they would have let 2000 pounds slide on by in Georgia. Every state is different of course. The fine was about $60 and no points on the CSA score for me. Company did not pay it.

 

When I was young and stupid and needed a job I once had over 65,000 in a 50,000 lb truck. 33% over on gross in Danbury CT.

They let me roll on through, after giving me a $1500 ticket. But this was 1995.

But at the end of the day it depends on what state you are in and what is their policy.

And before anybody starts jumping on me, the company had similar single axle tractors registered to 65,000 so the truck could handle it. It wasn't unsafe, they were just saving money on the registration.

 

840 over on tandems today at w memphis they static scaled me then green lighted me. I hit the cat scale at next exit and adjusted to legal. Figured my luck wouldn't hold through missouri scales