Cost of overweight tandem ticket.

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by CruzControhl, May 7, 2018.

  1. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    What were the dot violations?
     
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  3. Buster Churry

    Buster Churry Light Load Member

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    Some people weigh their loads and some people take their chances. If you get 1 ticket a year @ 200 bucks and hauled 150 loads, weighing none of them... that’s 150 X 11.50 scale fee = 1725.00 in scale fees minus the 200.00 fine= it pays to take chances.
     
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  4. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    Well driver if your paying your own scales then your foolish with your money, companies generally want you to weigh loads over a certain weight is also for safety concerns, This driver doing the posting is not doing his job at all, not weighing out, not setting his axles, not checking the reg dates, driving a tractor with bald drives..... Shows either inexperience or indifference either is quite dangerous to everyone one of us sharing the highways. But this is what you get when you have trainers that do not know what to teach.

    Back to can't teach what you do not know.
     
  5. spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    Where did he say he had bald tires?
     
  6. Streetroddreams

    Streetroddreams Medium Load Member

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    Word to the wise...when you pay the ticket save your receipt forever and I mean forever,I know captain obvious but hang on...I had a overweight ticket in Missouri...6 and I mean six years later they said it was never payed ,I told them they were wrong and their reply was no prob just show us some proof.needless to say I had to pay it again...
    Foristell suxx..I say again save that receipt
     
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  7. CruzControhl

    CruzControhl Light Load Member

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    The scale from pilot after sliding tandems back. Hauling laundry detergent
     

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  8. CruzControhl

    CruzControhl Light Load Member

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    Oops wrong ticket
     
  9. CruzControhl

    CruzControhl Light Load Member

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    Okay correct ticket . This is with 5th wheel slid all the way forward because at first the tandems wouldn't slide.
     

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  10. Jacoooooooo

    Jacoooooooo Heavy Load Member

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    They shouldn’t bother you for 40lbs. If you have a spare tire under the trailer move it behind the cab, or sth.
     
  11. BillStep

    BillStep Light Load Member

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    You will be fine with that. Under gross and forty over on tandems is good. I can't really see the DOT bothering you for this.
     
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