scale placement

Well by all means tell us what you would do in this situation?

 

If you want to pretend that you're doing anyone but yourself and some hayseed farmer good by running around the scales and giving away your time and labor.. I'll not even try and convince you otherwise.. whoop whoop truck it up bubba!

 

That sounds condescending, and I suspect that's the way you intended it...but if so, since when is your time more valuable than thousands of other drivers who do cross the scale?

Thanks for the link, good reference material is always good to have. I'm sorry that you feel the need to get nasty with me, based on another posters attitude I was responding to, who was playing the victim, instead of the professional they were implying they were.

You do realize, don't you, that you just poked a hole in your own argument with that link? If there are exemptions (which make it legal) then you're covered. If you're over the exemption weight (which make it illegal) you're back in the same boat. Apparently, pushing the limit is the intent, and like children, until that limit is set and there is a consequence for pushing that limit, drivers won't learn to play by the rules that professionals play by.

Professionals know their job and how to do it in a manner consistent with the responsibilities of that position without compromising the moral and ethical requirements of those responsibilities, or the safety of others. If you feel that my interpretation and understanding of the term professional is different from yours, please feel free to look it up in the dictionary for the meaning(s) that the rest of the civilized world understands it to mean.

So now the question isn't even if there is a scale nearby, because there is one on the truck already? Since the tables you linked me to show there is an allowance to compensate for those issues, you're now saying you are still unable to load legally? Are you sure you want to continue this argument? If they don't work on uneven terrain, then why have them? According to your argument, they are useless unless you're on a level concrete pad. They are a tool, and as such, you need to learn to use your tools under varying conditions. The tool is only as useful as the person using it.

Come on, are you wanting permission to make excuses or do you want to be a professional? Stop short, stop trying to "get over" and then making excuses for the greed.

Sorry, you've already answered your own question. Especially because of the need to stay on route with the Permit. If they won't allow you to weigh by axle, then they can keep the load. You've painted an unrealistic no-win scenario, something that rarely happens even at high volume mills, so the choice becomes simple. Do I take this load (not knowing if I'm legal) and gamble that it's legal and/or I won't get stopped and scaled and/or inspected; or do I refuse to gamble my money and PSP points and refuse to take this load without scaling the axles? I don 't know about you, but it's a really simple question to answer. In this situation you need to already have your pair or grow them.

I don't gamble. If by reason of being obstinate, they will not allow me to scale the axles even if I'm the one getting out, going to the scale house, moving the truck up an axle, etc.; they've made the decision for me. It really is that simple. Drivers keep trying to complicate it by adding issues that have nothing to do with the basic job. They keep trying to take the liability on themselves for things they are not supposed to be responsible for. We have enough to be responsible for, why do you guys keep trying to throw more on yourself? To do the customer a favor? Will they come forth and pay the ticket and talk the officer out of getting points on your record? Can you spell "dummy".

I'll say it again over and over until you get it through your head. YOU are responsible for the proper (legal) and professional movement of that freight. Anything else, is not professional or legal. Period.