Got an overweight ticket pulling for Amazon Relay

Plus pulling a double axle load with a single. Doesn't help. LOL

 

Should have just blew the scale. I doubt they even had a chase car. Trucker path is your friend. I had a ticket in that part of the world that was 3 times the cost of yours. The common wealth settled for 500 bucks. Of course the lawyer cost me triple that.

 

And 73,000 on 4 axles isn’t dangerous, but you probably should have loaded the steer up to about 13,000

 

Just out of curiosity why not register the truck for 69 or 70,000? All you are saving is the $550 a year for the 2290? If you would have done that it would have only been a 3 or 4,000 pound overweight ticket. Just curious if I’m missing something. And under 73k gross MD will allow 22,400 on a single.

 

Funniest time we were overweight was We had a stuffed full load of cop car spec Goodyears going up to a TXDPS station in San Marcos and lo and behold that scale was open on I-35. That scale is never open. We were 7,200 and some change over. As the scale trooper was writing down the origin and destination of the load he’s like this address is familiar and he didn’t know what to think of it. So he showed it to the captain in charge who looked at it, smiled and said “looks like our new tires are finally here boys”. He told us get outta here cause they have been waiting for a month to get them in for their fleet. Lol!

 

Penske runs big 35-38,000 single axles on a lot of tractors. Many company's use them down here.

 

I’ve never seen a 38,000 pound single. 26,000 is the biggest I’ve seen.