$5800 overweight ticket! 18 months driver

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If I could pass a D.O.T. physical, along with having a cleaner MVR, I would be more than happy to drive OTR for $36,000 a year, while working professionally.
Naturally, I would be happy to receive more than $36,000 a year if the company was willing to pay it.

This year is my 9th. year as a retail clerk for a major retail chain, (since 4/17/2007).
I am currently earning $9.97 an hour plus benefits and a 401(K). Last year with overtime, I earned $23,000 before taxes. At the job I currently have, I am required to work professionally with the customers, or I am out of a job.

Don't get me wrong, I am very thankful to have a job. Before I had this job, I was out of work for 7 months, (9/18/2006 - 4/16/2007).

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

I am not a truck driver, I do not have a CDL. However, if I recall correctly, from reading the forum, this may be the information that you are looking for.

1) You are allowed 70 hours of driving in an 8 day week. This averages out to 8.75 hours a day if you were to do it this way.

2) A truck driver is allowed a 14 hour work day.

3) Out of those 14 hours, 11 of those hours are the most a truck driver can drive in a single day.

4) After the 14 hour work day is up, the truck driver is required to take a 10 hour break.

5) During the 1st. 8 hours of driving, a truck driver is required to take a 30 minute break.

6) If a truck driver uses up their 70 hours before his or her 8 days are up, they must take a 34 hour break, (known as a reset). After the 34 hours are up, the truck driver's 70 hours starts all over again.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Thank you, and you've done a good job boiling down. There are a few details that you may have left out. I will just add in bullet points, what is missing
1) on duty not driving
2) a driver may not driven after 14 hours after he went on duty without taking a 10 hour break
3) a driver may not drive more than 11 hours without taking a 10 hour break (it is possible if a driver only drove 11 took 1/2 hour break and 1/4 hour for pretrip to begin 22 hours after he began his first shift, and thereby drive 13 hours in one day)
4) see number 2
5) a driver is not allowed to drive after 8 hours have elapsed from the previous 1/2 or greater break.
6) this one is incorrect. No driver is mandated to take a 34 hour reset. The driver may not drive after 70 hours of on duty time have elapsed in the last 8 days, which includes the day of driving. At midnight, the hours of on duty of the 1st day of the 8 days falls off and the driver may drive up until 70 hours has expired from the current 8 day count. A driver has an option to take a 34 hour reset, which erases the prior 70 hours of the previous 8 days, and the 70 hour clock is reset to zero.
Thank you for appreciating the work we do and taking the time to understand what we do. I'm sure the 4 wheeler flashing his lights at me, or waiting until it is safe before he pulls in front of me might be you. G-d bless you too!

 

...... Wtf.

What if I does not want to read about a plane crash before it does happen?

Yo! You racialist!

 

I did not see until the end of the second page that the road was posted.
What is the controversy here? What on Earth is this guy complaining about? He doesn't even have to pay the fine!

 

By chance, would the residential area that you accidently took a detour be considered a popular bypass route for other CMV's?

 

To the OP,,, what road did you get the ticket on? road/city/state?

 

Some forget that everybody has to start somewhere.

 

It is not the width of the road, but the thickness of the road. That road is not build for the heavier trucks. If a sign was posted and you ignored the sign, then yes you are wrong. If it shows a 10 ton limit, you should know your empty weight. You were given a ticket for being overweight on a weighted road. No one is out to get you. Most overweight tickets are based upon x dollars per pound you are over the limit.