purposely & regular overweight loads....

I would be very surprised if Cali doesn't permit containers to roll over 80k. Shipping ports are a very large chunk of their economy.

 

They must look the other way on a lot of them then. Because when I was in Hawaii I hauled quite a few heavy containers that come from CA and the places that shipped coffee back stuffed the containers as full as they could get them.

Or they reworked everything in the “overweight corridor” before leaving the port.

 

Yeah, that is exactly what they did. LOL

 

There are none on the island of Hawaii. Most containers I pulled from the port were loaded top to bottom, front to back. And when we pulled a container loaded with coffee to ship to the mainland it was loaded the same way. My comment was tongue in cheek because there’s no way that all of those heavy containers are getting reworked after they enter or before the leave that heavy radius of the port.

 

Then by the special golden ticket. Er Permits for the weight. Be happy. Hand golden ticket to CA Dot standing on your fuel tank. Or have your company buy a standing permit for CA that includes a sufficient weight gross that you will be legal.

 

In GA you can buy a over wt permit on 5 axles that lets you gross 100,00 lps when pulling ####tainers

 

Then at some point these owner operators that you’re so concerned about will decide for themselves that the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. That’s for them to decide. This evil owner that you want to “get” won’t be affected at all if his o/o’s start getting tickets. Unless they have hard written proof all he has to do is play dumb.