Celadons new scale Rules

I got popped a bout a month ago in Utah...it was a big stink.

They are now logging scale incidents into the nationwide system,if you get nailed again for a scale issue and it reveals a pattern of violations,it will appear on your CSA.

This is my understanding directly from the DOT person.

...I could be mistaken

 

You can search the methodology in Appendix A for Overweight.

https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodology.pdf

August 4, 2010

• The Agency will employ a more strategic approach to addressing motor carriers with a history of size and weight violations rather than counting these violations in the Cargo-Related BASIC; the new approach will include alerts to roadside inspectors when carriers have a history of size and weight violations.

 

That's amazing..Ive had SEVERAL conversations with scale house officers.They all told me,the ticket goes to the company.
Never once had any issues with it going on my record.
They even told me it was cheaper for companies to run overweight,pay tickets,than it was to run an extra truck.
Made sense to me.The scale house knows whats going on,and stroke out tickets,and you move on to the next one.
Maybe its different in the south?Never got overweight anywhere else.It still doesent go to your CSA

 

Sounds like celadon is trying to cut costs to themselves by laying it on the drivers and assuming the right weigh system is 100% accurate. I can assure you that it is NOT going to be accurate when you pick up a different trailer, and the only way to calibrate it is if you weigh it on a certified scale. When I was at prime, they had them on almost all of the reefer trailers, but never calibrated like the training videos shown, since the trainers only cared about making money off of team driving instead of actually training. looks like celadon is determined to sink itself into the bottom-feeder/high-turnover category by discouraging drivers from check weighing loads. At least where I work now they REQUIRE the driver to check weigh and reimburse all weight scale tickets without question, and if a driver gets nailed because they didn't check weigh, its their own #### fault.

 

Yah...but you also get the expense write off on your taxes as well.

 

Not to mention that Landstar is for owners and Celadon is a company truck.

 

even company drivers can write off anything that isn't reimbursed
if you need a job you take a job
all jobs are not created equal
would I pay my own scale ticket
before I stayed home unemployed?
yes
yes

 

This attitude is exactly what Celadon is hoping for.

Next, they will want the driver paying for tolls and then repairs and then fuel. After all, it beats unemployment.

 

If the company has to pay the overweight fines, let them do it. Less work and time for the driver to scale the loads at truckstops.

 

ok you sit home
I will be working
getting experience moving on
I weigh everything over 33000 personally
survived a stupid lousy lease until I could do better
but at least my wife wasn't using food stamps
to each their own

no one said life is fair
plenty of bad trucking companies
without them no one gets experience to go elsewhere