help ,i get penalty for overweight

Well I hope you at least had enough sense to stop and weigh it at the first truck stop after the ticket was issued !!

From the story you are telling you screwed the pooch by not doing your job .
I find it hard to believe that you were sent on your way 4000 lbs over gross .

Your job is to make sure it is right not assume that it is right .
It has been said already NEVER take the shippers word for any weight on anything !!!

If you don't do your job correctly then you will pay the consequences for you lack of professionalism .
So suck it up buttercup and start doing your job right .
Overweight tickets are preventable .

I hope you at least learned something out of this.
Hard to beat a overweight ticket if you don't have anything but the scale mans weight to go off of !
If that is all you have then you are guilty plain and simple you were over weight at the time you crossed his scales case closed !!!
If all you have is "they said " then you might as well ask for the easy payment plane right now !!!

Welcome to trucking it is YOUR job to cover YOUR butt because NOBODY but YOU is responsible for YOU but YOU .
Do YOU get what I am saying here?

Good luck and be safe

 

Myself, i used the interstatetrucker.com, i received a speeding ticket on a Tenn. country highway, i called the service, paid the fee, they forwarded me to an attorney whom works that judicial district. My ticket was ultimately dismissed, due to the local cop was outside his jurisdiction. Obviously, the details are different than your issue at a State run Scale. But, when searching for guidance on how to proceed and not knowing what to look for, the attorney referral service provides some answers to questions by people whom asked similar questions. Also, the attorneys involved in this network were motivated enuff to find an extra outlet for Service, Versus, the lawyer that decides to wait at his Office and sees who will walk thru their door. (I know it aint much to work with...is it.)

 

I use DriversLegalPlan.com

 

do what you want, but if i add up the time saved by speeding, then deduct the cost, like time spent sitting while the local LEO writes it up, lawyer cost, court cost, fines, a couple of radar detectors, time missed from work appearing.

Speeding has only cost me lots of money. Never had a ticket for anything else and only in cal my home state, none over 63 mph. 1 scale ticket at sb 15 Utah/AZ. P/u load in Marshalltown, bol said 46,000 headed straight to the closest cat scale axled out, 12,300 - 33900 - 33600 - gross 79800. Good to go right, axle set at CA , out 80 we go thru NE, WY, into UT, pulled in at 80 Utah port of entry, walked in they looked at my bol, reg sent me on my way, figured all was good till i got to the south end of Utah and red light again.

They were showing 12,700 - 34700 - 32000 - gross 79400, showed them the cat scale, adjust my tandems 2 holes forward put 900 back on the rear signed my ticket and left. Sent copies of the ticket to cat, and they refunded the fine complete and sent out a service truck to Iowa to fix there scale. Only over weight ive received, and cat paid it no fuss. Scale your loads. (You would have thought one of the previous ports would have caught this, but no)

Keep it under 59 in CA, and save the money I have wasted on speeding, not worth it in time or money.

Sorry for the caps, keyboard issue, think a muffler bearing got stuck under the cap lock...Hmm guess spell correct fixed it.... In that case sorry for the rant.

 

Sometimes weights listed are of a specific product alone, adding another product to the box may be listed with a different weight.. some shippers list the combined weight some don't.. multiple stops are listed with product weights per stop as well.. check for combined and seperate weights.. as mentioned get to know how it feels.. some shippers have scales some dont and provide directions to the closest scale..

 

4k over gross is a huge fine. Always scale out before you start driving.

 

27K comes out to 59,524!

Yikes!

Mikeeee

 

He could not have possible had that much weight on, they would have shut him down right there, I'm surprised they would let him go with 4000 over gross. Makes me wonder if there is not a little troll involved here.

 

I am curious.

Mikeeee