Trailer axle overweight--Going to CA

Actually I just looked up my file on the overweight ticket, I was actually 2,000 lbs over, not 1,500

 

This is a good point. I live in California have 20 months in OTR in the 48 and have broken lots of laws lots of times for an extra few hundred bucks that week. I am currently behind on bills and the feel I have now, especially in CA, I am running totally legal and it's costing me money. I got a level 2 clean in WA somehow no comment, got a weight warning in OR after fueling, got pulled in in Shasta for being 42.5 kprh. I can't risk it. Even PA on a Saturday night on the 80 West I don't think with a 3 year old I'm taking anymore risks. And this person's right-it can become expected so that it becomes a sin with repurcussions (short runs) to say no.

 

You did some nice talking there it seems to me or presented yourself well.

 

75 bucks with nothing else was a good deal.

 

It was $150. But the DOT officer told me if I called the local court office they would reduce it to $75. They did.

He was really nice to me, then again so was I to him

 

5th wheel does nothing for the trailer. ONly drives and steers.

 

if the 5th wheel was all the way back and u slid it forward it wouldnt put weight on the drives an take some off the trailer? guess its been a long long time since i had to slide my 5th wheel lol

 

well thats one way to get things done lol

 

if your lucky maybe the cop will have you hold one end of the tape measure for him. its happened to me then the further away he gets the more you inch the end in the way it needs to go.....lol

 

When I was a kid I used to ride with my grandpa, dad, or uncle over summer break. I was with my Uncle Rick one time when we got pulled in at Blythe, the officer held the tape at the kingpin AND gave Uncle Rick the housing lmao.