Any one can help me ?

There is one rule i go by when loading. I usually spend the 10 dollars to CAT the load prior to taking it down the road. I have to ask why did you not CAT the thing.

Most of the time when you drive with the same tractor long enough, you get to where you can tell that you are too heavy. Your air pressures are a little higher than usual (more than 50 pounds suspension etc)and your tractor is less agile on the road and require a couple hundred RPM more to get the same work out of it. Or even fail to pull a routine mountain in the same loaded gear as usual.

Follow me so far?

I would not worry too much about the company, it's a ticket. Pay the thing and move on. Ive gotten tickets in excess of 3000 dollars, usually written to the company rather than myself because companies have money otherwise I would fail to pay it and they would issue a arrest.

 

Report it. They might even pay for it. I guarantee this happens a good bit with this specific freight and this specific lane.

 

If you have the weight scale ticket from when you originally loaded and showed this to the DOT they would be able to tell the load had shifted if you can prove this you may be able to appeal this in court otherwise if you don't have the time to appear in court you will just have to pay the fine.

 

Do not trust a company's scale. Go to a cat scale.

 

Exactly. I've gotten an overweight ticket that does appear on my Washington MVR. However, no employer has ever blinked at it. Overweight tickets are something you either have or will get. When I got mine, I told my company and they paid for it.

 

This. So much this.

 

Not a moving violation should not need to report it to the company. Just pay it. If asked about it later just say wasn't moving violation no insp. Was done seen no need to report it. Also when you do your annual review @ your company do not list it

 

Okay.. here is what I am wondering.. I have gotten an over weight... when I did, I had to pull around and go inside..

Now, thinking that I may get an inspection, I want to make sure I logged on the Qualcomm right.. which, for most Mega's like Werner, England.. Swift.. would be, on duty at weight station.. something like, I don't remember exactly.. but, I made sure I was logged right because I didn't want a ticket for a log violation..

So, say a driver at Werner, England or Swift.. logs on the Qualcomm correctly at a scale in case they get an inspection.. later, after he accepts that entry and submits it.. The Mega company will find it in their automatic log audit, in fact things like that draw a flag, it is in the software program..and will ask the driver about it..
they will want to know, why he was logged that way.. if he was.. and he will have to explain it..

If he tells them he got a ticket for being over weight but paid it.. they will now want to know why he did not follow company policy and procedures.. which a company will be more upset about than they would an over weight ticket..

I weed through applications all the time and often see where drivers are let go for not following company policies and procedures.. and more often than not is is for small stuff.. like an over weight ticket.. I rarely see where a driver was fired because of one over weight ticket.. in fact I don,t think I ever have.. but, now that I have said that I am sure the thread will blow up with 100 drivers who were perfect and then got fired for one over weight ticket..

 

If you weighed out legally at the shipper, and if you braced the load to the best of your ability (which may be not at all, if you picked it up sealed), then your company has nothing to be angry at you about. You did your job. That shipper may owe you money for loading the trailer poorly, and sealing it to conceal the problem. If that's what happened, the shipper should be required to pay the ticket, and future loads should be left unsealed until the driver has a chance to inspect, and get the load properly secured. If you tell your carrier, they may be able to recover that money for you. If you don't, then this shipper will continue to do this to both you, and other drivers.

 

That is exactly spot on... he did pick up the trailer sealed.. and yes.. the company will want to contact the shipper and make sure they load and secure the trailers better...

Many companies, even Megas will pay the ticket if it was the shippers loading and faulty securment.. the driver was picking up s sealed trailer..

When I was with Werner I got an over weight for a sealed trailer that I picked up.. there were no cat scales on my route until after the weigh station.. the trailers were supposed towed correctly and sealed.. Werner paid the ticket and I didn't have to.. now, if I had been able to weigh the trailer before the weigh station it may have been on me if my tandems were right.. and then I would have to pay..