Overweight ticket, shipper wrong about weight.

The question I need to ask is ....

He was 13k over gross and was stopped at a VA weigh station- are you telling me they let him leave the scale that far over gross and did not make him correct the issue before leaving I.e. unloading excess divisible product?

I may not run in VA but nearly every scale I have been to will require that kind of overweight load to be made legal before leaving. That is the point where you involve your shipper, if you are going to involve them. Not that they are likely to help you out but you still have their product and that is the only real leverage you have in this.

 

Well could be the loader? A new hire or someone who obviously made a mistake, or lied. Like you say it needs to be worked out with shipper. I'm sure it will get resolved. They could at least pay half the fine. Then educate the driver. No one is perfect. All this truck'in stuff is not learned overnight.

 

Then you are as they screwed. I would check and make sure that VA is not after you for He driver leaving the scale with getting the problem corrected and signed off.

Oh and don’t ever send this guy West it will be worse..

 

Best policy is to have your drivers weigh anything thats over 35,000. True you have to pay the scale fees but they are deductible, Fines are not.

 

I AGREE.

When I was way overweight that poor truck did not move 10 feet from the docks before the very axles started creaking with the drives swaying.

I have never had a tractor drives lean back and forth side to side as those did that day. BTW that was a 3000 dollar ticket on over gross at 137500, the highest they captured as the load cells failed on that scale. (Stephens City VA Interstate scale old platform)

I hate to make noise but this time I am fixing to. Your driver is just either too stupid to be in a big truck, willfully drugged or somehow excluding himself from real life. There isnt a truck in this Nation that will have a hard time with a 67000 pound of something on the trailer without some form of kick back, RPM fall down, transmission refusal etc.