Overweight ticket, shipper wrong about weight.

call the us marshalls. matter of fact call them on the scale. dude if you leave any place and get on a public road. that makes you the sole captain of that ship. there for the shipping yard could careless.

 

i always sign my name, print and date plus slsc on every bill. my wm dc makes us put slsc on every vendor bill

 

Put onboard scales on the truck and trailers. Also hire better drivers. Load in Baltimore scales in Baltimore. But wait got tickets in Maryland. Life is hard .But it is harder if you are stupid. A quote from John Wayne

 

You don't have an air gauge on your truck? My new truck has a digital air gauge and I can usually guess within 500lbs the total weight of my load based on what air pressure it shows when I have the tandems slid all the way back and then all the way forward.

With my old truck I got to the point where I could scale a load and before I got the ticket tell the lady it should say I'm about 78500lbs and I was within 100lbs on either side. My new truck I'm still trying to learn the gauge and corresponding weights. I can get within 500 sometimes, sometimes I'm thousands off.

 

Your driver couldn't tell, just by the way the truck pulled, that he was heavy?
I agree with the other guys...get some onboard scales.

And tell your driver to pay better attention.

 

DOT will not cut you any slack for being overweight. It's not their problem that there wasn't a scale for you to use. Finding a scale is one additional part of trip planning and it's up to the driver or dispatcher to find one. Getting onboard scales would be an excellent idea if this is a regular customer.

 

then you look for a mover,a ready mix company, a rock quarry or anything that has a set of scales and see if they will weigh it? Some will, some wont. If necessary, you go in the opposite direction of the scale and find the closest truckstop. Only other alternative is to avoid the scale and hope you dont get caught. You can get little truck stop guides at every truckstop Ive ever been in for less that 10 bucks that tells where all the truckstops are. Its a handy thing to have. If you dont know where the weigh stations are, get a Rand Mcnally Motor Carrier Atlas. It tells you where they are.

 

I wrote the county magistrate once where I was over axle and they dismissed the ticket. There was no certified scale on the route before the coop.

 

1. Lol I think he passed a few scales didn’t he? Any driver with half a brain can look at the air gauges and see he’s over by that much and needs to scale. Driver just doesn’t give a F. Fire him.

2. Plead your case about the bad BOL to the court. Might get the find reduced

3. Sue the shipper. You will get something but not enough to make you whole. Good money after bad but hey it might make you feel better. Or not

 

Was the driver racing his log book? Or did he not pre plan?
I blame elog.