They DO NOT allow you to be over weight on that axle if your loaded and that tire is over the manufactures max load rating your in violation.....
Lately TA/Petro has the policy of having the driver observe the torque of the nuts and sign a paper back at the desk. Then they suggest stopping back at any TA/Petro within a hundred miles or so to recheck the torque. Mikeeee
Hi PB, don't you just love when a cop is wrong. Once in a suburb of Chicago, I was pulling a dump trailer ,loaded, and a local yokel stops me, and says "we're going over to the city scale". So we went to the city garage, and they were working on the scale, this cop comes waddling over to the truck, and says," this is your lucky day, driver", and I took off.
Actually, they do. As long as it is safer for you to proceed than it is to sit parked where the defect occurred while en route, you are allowed to continue on to a safe location to have the repairs made. Loaded or not, if you've got duals, there is no reason whatsoever to sit on the side of an interstate for an hour or more waiting on a service truck to bring you a new tire...and then make the poor guy change the tire with traffic zipping by at 70+ mph just inches from his backside. Get that POS up the road and find a place away from traffic to have the work done.
The problem with that is what is safer is completely subjective so you are at the mercy of the officers discretion or a courts if you get ticketed and fight it.
There is nothing subjective about it. Anybody with even an ounce of common sense can see that it is extremely unsafe to sit on the shoulder of a highway...which is why stopping/standing/parking is generally prohibited and stalled vehicles are regularly towed from the scene. Even a brain-dead idiot can see the danger in having a guy put a new tire on the truck on the side of the highway with 70+ mph traffic passing right behind his back. Driving a truck that is only slightly overweight on 1 tire out of the 17 remaining tires on the truck a short distance at a reduced speed to get out of harms way is SIGNIFICANTLY safer, provided there is no rubber chunking off creating a hazard for other motorists or the tire risks coming off the rim and rolling off into traffic. Neither of those are possible if the tire has already been removed from the rim and stowed properly. When in doubt, apply common sense.
Sir this trucking thing must be all new to you.....I'd love to see you gross 79,000 with a hazmat load with one axle singled out and roll across the a scale, I'd beat you $1,000 they don't let you just drive to the next truck stop to get a tire. Also I beat your the kind of driver that thinks he can drive over his 11th hour to find a safe haven
You'd have to be a derned fool to roll across the scale with a tire pulled off. That isn't what we're talking about. Besides that, the scale IS a "safe" location to have work done, so if you blow out a tire a mile before reaching the scale you just turn into the parking area without crossing the scale and if they come out to ask you what you are doing you explain that you just blew the tire a mile or so back and this was the nearest safe location to have repairs made. Read that little green book. It is all in there.
