500$ ticket, it is NOT reasonable

I was company driver at transam. About 4 years ago in Illinois I receieved ticket at scale for being overweight on 1 of my trailer axles. $1200 or more that the company paid. It was a mechanical issue. All weight was on one axle.

 

So many people suggesting "pulling off onto the shoulder and walking inside" if you miss the ramp. If you're pulling a placard load with certain classes of HM, that in and of itself is another violation unless the shoulder is wide enough for you to be at least 5' from the traveled portion of the road or highway. Sure, there is an exception for necessity of operation if no other practical parking arrangements can be found, but the DOT could easily point to their parking lot and say "You should've pulled in" as they write that citation and then it would another issue for you to fight in court.

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Much easier to just not drive on roads that have scales on them...then you don't have to worry about "missing" the sign.

 

Go to court plead guilty and ask the judge if he can help you with the fine. Or get a lawyer and pay more than $500. Or fight it yourself in court and take the chance to lose $500. That is all the options laid out there.

 

The last thing you said is a winner. But common sense is not so common. Many times if DOT was posted up down here there would be a lot of drivers who are fined for being off a designated hazmat route. The truck route goes one way everybody just heads right down the highway...that's a rather large no no as running right through downtown isn't a designated hazmat route.

 

Everyone daydreams sometimes, if a driver tells me he doesn't I'll just nod my head and smile. I've blown a scale once, there was a rest area about a mile up the road. I pulled in there and took a 30, not sure if they sent anyone after me but I didn't want to find out.

 

I don't daydream the #### sun is just always in my eyes!!!!

 

Drive nights like me and you forget what the sun is.

 

I guess we can call yours night dreams, huh!

 

And you KNOW how much they REALLY don't want big rigs on a road when they post the load limit signs 1/4 mile after you have mamade the turn...

 

The real violation here is hauling hazmat tanker for only $700 a week.

The problem with Prepass is it makes drivers complacent. They don't even see the Weigh Station 2 Miles, they rely on that little credit card reader to beep for them.

Same thing with automatic trucks, they don't have a feel for what the equipment is doing, just mash it down and hit cruise let the electronic stability control and front radar take care of any problems.

Meanwhile the driver just takes a waking nap all spaced out totally unaware of what happend in the last 60 miles.