Overweight and OOS

Might just be a misunderstanding, too. Scale man may have said "You're here until it's right" and the OP took that as he's OOS until the weight issue is corrected.

 

I had a Texas Officer tell me once something like that. He told me there was a difference between not being allowed to leave till load is fixed and being OOS. I used to have this in hard copy form.

 

If something is not an out-of-service I don't think that they can legally prohibit you from continuing. Even if someone does not have an overweight permit and they are too heavy once I am done with them I send them on their way

 

Yeah when I was overweight they cut the ticket to my company and sent me own.

 

The conversation I had was many years ago and covered many things not just weight. I have never seen or heard about anybody ever being held at a scale. Edited to add because of being overweight!

 

Please forgive me. I should not post anything while I am suffering from the aftereffects of an epileptic seizure. I will post more about that Texas conversation later.

 

I've only seen where the load has to be made right before the truck can proceed...only exceptions are for wet cement or hot asphalt, in which case they can be cited and allowed to proceed.

 

I was over weight at the Castaic CA scales. They did not put my out of service or cite me but they did hold my CDL til the load was legal.

Overweight tickets will not affect CSA company scores nor driver PSP scores.

If you've ever been put out of service (OOS) under current CSA rules, say you had a Level x inspection and had a violation that carries points against the carrier for 2 years and listed on the driver's PSP for 3 years. If the violation also puts the driver OOS, that is an additional 2 points for hte carrier right there fo each OOS violation.

Not sure how that would be scored on the inspection report because the overweight carries zero points against anyone so maybe the officer found a way to ding 2 points by declaring OOS.

But more than likely the driver was just told not to leave til the load was correct but not officialy OOS per se.