Overweight and OOS

I had one overweight and it went to the company. It was a repowered load so I picked up a sealed trailer of paper rolls in Atlanta going to VA. The original driver screwed up his hours so I took it after my 10. There wasn't a cat scal ticket so I weighed it on our yard and all was good but sti got that cat scale ticket. Hit the weigh station in GA got the green light and proceeded on.

Well I hit the VA line around 3am. So I hit the scale house and was red lighted and told to pull around and bring paperwork in. The rolls shifted in the mountains making one axle a good bit overweight. He wrote the ticket to Averitt and gave me a level one and all was good.

 

Either way it is what it is

 

Yep, if those paper loads are not loaded correctly they can (walk) forward and get you BIG overweight fines.

 

I was overweight and MO got me.But it was my fault for not weighing it.I can't remember how much but the fine was $500.00 plus I had to go back to shipper 200 miles and have them reworked the load.No matter what I did I was still over by 800 lbs..Shipper ended up removing 3 pallets.That was the first and last time I ever was overweight,i learned my lesson.I figure dispatch would be angry because I had to go back to shipper but he wasn't i even offered to pay for that extra fuel but they didn't charge me.Just had to pay the fine.

 

Spread the axles to get legal and take the ticket for kingpin length and run for the border.

 

Since the company told you that are they gonna help cover it?

 

Hey Slim...got more bad news for you: whoever thats telling you about sliding 5th wheels and axles doesnt know jack about your job. They think they do, but they don't.

Do this while you are waiting...
1. Find the center of your trailer axles. Go from there to the kingpin, counting your steps. Divide that distance by 2 and pace that off from the kingpin. Mark that spot on the trailer. THIS IS THE CENTER FOR LOADING. See where your load is from the center point?
2. Sliding the 5th wheel does nothing to change the distance from the kingpin to the center of the trailer axles. So if a trailer is loaded too heavy to the rear, sliding a 5th wheel is completely useless.

 

the only way an overweight can put you OOS is if you exceed the tire ratings. So you either had something else going on or the officer did not know what he was doing. I always reccomend drivers have a copy of the OOS criteria and know what will and what will not put you OOS