Overweight Tickets -Does company have any skin in the game?

Atleast you'll be able right the scale tickets off on your taxes.

 

If you read Reo's post carefully, he stated two things.

HE LOVES to pay 10.00 cat scales you do all day long checking the legality of your weights.

HE HATES to have to deal with enforcement overweights as a company himself. Its a big deal.

YOU need to find another employer. The whole board here is crying for you to hire on to somewhere else right away and get away from that shady employer who refuses to do anything and stick you with the fines. You cannot afford them. I promise you that.

 

I spend most of my time either in the office or out on jobsites.
If you get an overweight ticket it's going to cost me money. If you get an overweight ticket and they want you to legal the load before you leave the scales it's going to cost me even more money.
Figure the delay time at the scales, too. If you miss an unload appointment because of having to hang out at the scales I have to explain to the customer why the load isn't there on time.
Your over weight ticket is also going to eat up work time that I could have spent on more worthy projects.
See? That's why I'd rather pay for a check-weight. It's cheap insurance.

 

Yes I hit stephens City with a overloaded container and their platform scale failed at 135400. This is back in about 1988 or so with a 40 foot box on a 65 mack short tractor. That was all they could write for. Against the company not me personally.

In 1980's dollars 3000 would be around 5000 today indexing for inflation.

I handed that citation to them and they complained, I told them be happy I did not cross the scale in New Market Maryland, that would have been another 3000 minimum. I used a bridge that was pending to be demo'ed in 2 weeks time to cross over and run through the woods. The bridge took the weight. I don't see how it did. The tractor was totaled.

 

Yes, any time you pay something related to work Uncle Sam is pleased to pay you back personally. But ideally the company to pay you back for that and then Uncle Sam pays IT back.

If you don't do this and it's your bill. Wife would be upset.

 

Usually is.

HOWEVER.

The deeper issue against the company is a total reluctance to pay your 10.00 cat scales, be legal in weights or support you in hitting scales.

Thats the big reason everyone is telling you to find another employer. You will get burned very badly if DOT catches you proper dead to rights. That company does not care about you. Its all greed.