Opinions Please

They do not have a score.. but they definitely show up on a CSA report

 

Have you talked to your company about this? If not, you should. It sucks, but the fact is YOU are the one the ticket was issued to, so legally YOU are responsible for it. And if your company tells you they "will take care of it," make sure that they do. If they want your copy of the ticket so they can take care of it, make yourself a photocopy before you give it to them. Then make contact with the phone number for the court shown a couple of days before your "date to appear," and make sure it has been taken care of.

More than one driver has been screwed royally by a company rep saying they will take care of a ticket, then not following through on it. So if they don't, the next time you have contact with a LEO and they run you through their handy-dandy computer, you come up with a Failure To Appear or Failure To Pay.

Yeah, you likely got screwed by the driver you took the trailer from. If you are forced to take care of this, (which wouldn't be surprising,) just count it as an expensive lesson. We've all had our share of those.

 

How did the first driver get to the switch point with out getting busted?

 

No need to worry about CSA (PSP) points. Doesn't affect your CDL at all, and only affects you if you apply for a job with a company that actually pulls a PSP report.

 

So if 1 axle was (possibly) underinflated and one was overweight there is only one conclusion.

The driver probably didn't do a proper pre-trip of the trailer, and also didn't scale a new load.
If he had done either, the problem could probably have been avoided.

Once a load is passed off to a new driver, it is the new drivers responsibility to verify the viability of that load.
It can't be any other way, since the current driver is held legally responsible.

 

Probably no scale between the shipper and where he handed it off. Or he simply dodged the scales that were there.

 

He's the driver regardless of how fair, unfair, act of God, space alien event or whatever could possibly happen, he's responsible.. END OF STORY! Why is this so complicated? Take it to court and tell it to the judge but I'm willing to bet he will not throw it out.. Lesson learned.

 

I picked one up in ID recently. 2800 over for a reasonable $81.50.

 

Company should eat this one. Dispatched to swap trailers, I didn`t see any mention of where they swapped. Scales may not have been available. In todays screw-over world If driver 1 knew he had a problem, he wouldn`t have mentioned it to the other driver. Driver #2 (in most cases), had he known would have pitched a fit and possibly not hooked to it at all. Dispatch, at whatever point they became "Aware" of the problem, would have kept quiet to avoid driver-drama, and from then on denied having any knowledge of the problem.
Simplest way to solve, and keeps everybody happily toiling away, company pays ticket.