How did I get away with this?

You're meeting all the DOT officers who should be training the new ones not sitting in a scalehouse.

 

Florida will actually give you 22k on a single & 44k on tandems. Of course they must be capable of that much..

 

A lot of states give you some leeway on the weights. Idaho however will be writing the ticket before your rear drive rolls off the scale. Mostly because they saw you flying the antifa flags on TTR, and that #### don’t fly with the spud boys.

 

Virginia gives you 2 hours to adjust. I know because that's how long they let me chip ice off my trailer to get back under gross years ago. Don't know about the rest.

 

I've been over on axle weight in Idaho many, many times in the past... If I was only grossing 76k or less they have usually let me go, provided I wasn't over by more than 1200 pounds on any axle group. Being as Idaho is my home state this is where I did ALL of my driving for several years when I first got my CDL... Maybe they just let me go because I was a local boy???

To the OP... I'd say they let you go because you were WELL under gross limit, and only over a handful of hundred weights on you tandems.

 

I was thinking while I was reading this before I got to the part about Virginia don't go thru Roanoke. Lol.

 

No man in his right mind is ever going to tell a woman she's overweight

 

Hold my beer....

 

For whatever reasons, that scale on westbound I-80 coming into Utah shows heavier than you actually are on the display we drivers see. I've had my tandems showing over 36,000 a couple times knowing full well that I'm under weight, and I get the green light to continue out. Not sure if the display weight is messed up, or the scale employees like to just see the expression on our faces.

 

Only in my stomach.