Overweight ticket

50 miles out of route too expensive for that company? So it is one of the ###### if you do ###### if you don't situations. I like how companies like to take on the heavy paying freight, but does not want to take responsibility for it.

In that situation you should have hit the scales if they are 500miles away. You knew it was going to be heavy and you know dock workers don't give a ####. If they fire you for out of route miles or refusing to take the load without scale, you have just cause for an unemployment dispute. Now you have nothing but a ticket and a stain on your driving record. Not kicking you when your down, just stating what the options are so others learn what to do when that situation hits them.

 

I dug a bit and he has a lot of posts so wasn't too difficult eventually find....Here ya go

 

https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Carrier/1298416/CompleteProfile.aspx

that is a one truck operation. I doubt going 50miles out of route would be noticed.

 

so are they illegally running other trucks?

 

Mr Commuter, let me explain to you how it works:

Once you sign a BOL and leave a shipper, it's yours. Not the company, not the shipper. Until the receiver signs off on a load, legally, it's yours and you are responsible.

If you don't like it, you sure as hell don't leave with it.

 

Youre toast. You pulled it. I got one in missouri at first stop over illinoi s border. Couldnt get to scale without crazy re routing. Picked up a sealed pre loaded trailer could not look to see how it was loaded. Literally the last exit was the pickup of a Hersheys load. So I put the tandems where in usually was good on those loads. Only over a few hundred pounds. Guy was a prick. I paid it.

 

I would have asked my company if they're going to pay my overweight ticket before even leaving the shipper if no answer then I'll wait here untill tomorrow so shipper can rework the load.How much over were you and how much was the fine?