Illinois overweight ticket

$48,000 overweight ticket? holy #### man

 

I'd call OOIDA and see if they can recommend and hook you up with a lawyer who is familiar with laws regarding your situation. Man, I thought that fine was a typo. I wish you luck.

Phone Numbers, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association

 

I didn't think there were trk fines that huge.Please let us know what happens.

 

Same county I got my first out of route ticket. Couple decades ago.
For a fine that extreme I would hire a lawyer.
Overweight tickets I think are hard to beat.
Did the cop use portable scales to weigh your truck and trailer? Did you drive to a scale?
Good luck

 

Of course the op dies heavy haul some of there laws are a lot stricter then general hauling

 

They had an overweight ticket in RI for $57,000 earlier this year

 

Wow ! Illiinois on a rampage for overweight trucks lately ...buddy got popped recently at rock island with no place to scale and he went to court on the 2000ish fine ..they had no sympathy .

 

man oh man...

You say "Just for the overweight fine" I assume there were other citations too?

I feel pretty bad for ya- Usually those fines are ripped in thirds after court- 15k

Had a guy a few years back with a Super load here in Cook county- He Got off route and was nailed Fine was like 15k- but after court it was more "reasonable" Cant remember how much was chewed off.

How did this Cop find you? Your in Winnebago county- You Got Hwy 20 (Which 90% of them hang out.)..
And its evident you were on a smaller road somewhere--

I'm guessing a bystander with nothing better to do called in on this 1.

 

Would guess they are going off of the weight that was estimated for the permit. Since the truck was out of route, they would go after everything that was over, length, width, weight etc.