Celadons new scale Rules

used to be over parinoid as well. till once when i picked the trailer up i scaled it and new i was over. sent msg to dispatch via qualcomm and was told to "run with it." dot stopped me at the scale on 45 in Texas heading to Houston. i was over drives, tandems and gross. BUT within what he said was "the tolerance amount." then he proceeded to give me a level 2 insp. headed into my safety officers office a week later with three warnings for my weight, and walked out with a $50 bonus for having a clean inspection. was told i got the bonus because i just got warnings and that even if they had been tickets i still would have gotten the bonus since i had a pic of the msg from dispatch telling me to run with it.

no points for carrier OR driver for overweight. period. extra scrutiny for the carriers for doing it over a prolonged period of time. lol probably so.

 

Geez, weren't you paying attention during orientation? A level 3 Zombie attack always supersedes any company(or DOT) rules, period.

 

Geez, you got to wade thru a bunch of holier than thou BS to get to a few worthwhile posts anymore.... Years back, I hauled containers for a while when it was still profitable to do so... Picked one up with a BOL that said 40,000, so I was good... or I thought. Got to the WI scale on I 94 and was pulled out back... 3300 over on the drives. Waited for a crew to come and crack it open, and we found that the loaders double stacked pallets in the nose and left the back 10 feet empty. If they would have loaded single stack, it was legal.

When in doubt, scale it.

 

The you got lucky.

Did you know what the "tolerance" level was? For all the officers or just that one?

What if you took the trailer out of state?

Is ohio the same "tolerance"? Pa? Ny?

IF you hit and badly injured someone...would the courts "tolerance amount" be the same?

 

good pt. i was grossing @ 81,000 with full tanks. i accepted the risks knowing that my company has much deeper pockets than i.

as for knowing the tolerance? nope. had no clue. but seeing as the company knew they were going to pay, their check book not mine.

and no, i'm NOT a super trucker, i try to keep the weights legal even to the point of having to fuel every 200 miles or so to stay that way.

 

Little confused here...I have NEVER heard of a company paying over weight ticket.

Heck any ticket for that matter.

81,000 in Ga would have you sitting and paying a large fine.

 

I'd rather pay a $10 scale ticket rather than a $500 over weight ticket. Even if I wasn't getting reimbursed is still pay the $10 which I have in the past. The ticket falls on the driver not the company because it's the drivers responsibility to make sure the load is legal. The points will go on the drivers CSA also. So yeah I'd just pay the $10.

 

Sorry.

Lost my temper for a second.

 

It happens. I drove for a company that shipped bottled water to multiple customers. Often they would load an extra order knowing it would put us over, and had an agreement to pay the fine, which was far cheaper than the cost of another truck to ship the balance of the freight.