How???

Or, just tell your dm in the morning you are over gross and are not moving. They will either have the shop siphon off fuel or take the load off you.

 

Loaded at C&H awhile back.

Was greenlighted by Fairfield scale. Thought to myself "I'm good". Was redlighted at Cottonwood. I was 1200 lbs over on tandems. Good on gross. Only problem was I couldn't slide tandems back because I was right at 40' bridge law.

So, I called for permission to break seal and I offloaded almost 60 cases of sugar into my bunk

CHP didn't write me up or anything, plus I needed the exercise

 

Exactly! I mean, beer is pretty much sugar

 

If dispatch tries to push you to run over gross, it doesn't matter what load it's on, tell them to send it over the Qualcomm that they want you to do that. Even then, don't do it. Just like when companies will try to push drivers to run illegal. It's your ###. Get it in a message instead of a phone call that cannot be traced.

 

Wow. I can't believe this is still an issue. If you drove for me, you would be out of a job right now. The chances of actually being harassed for a mere 50# overweight at any scale are slim to none, and even if you ARE hassled about it, the MAXIMUM fine is going to be less than what you are costing the company by refusing to drive. Fuel (and anything else you can drain from the truck) is expensive. Late loads can be expensive, too.

Seriously. 50# is nothing to worry about. Until you exceed the 400# that a lot of states are granting with the APU exception, they won't even look hard enough at your truck to see if you've actually got an APU. It isn't worth it to them to write that ticket...the amount of the fine won't even be enough to pay the officer for his time showing up to court if you challenge the accuracy of his scales.

Just run the #### load.

 

50 lbs??? No way, lol.

You'd lose that much after being down the road about 50 miles.

I agree with above. Can't believe this is an issue at all.

(Maybe you should start the reefer unit as well to speed the process??? LOL)

 

if it was me, id roll, you're gonna burn it off, I've rolled 200lbs over gross and i was legal by The time I got to a scale, why don't u go to a cat scale, unless u like sitting not making any money by the time u get to the first scale you'll be legal