Weigh station violation, but no citation.

I'm trying to understand this post but I'm having a hard time. The overweight, I get that. The husband being too tired to finish his last hour, I get that also. Kudos to him for pulling over, event thou it seems he pushed himself too long. He gets tired pulls over on shoulder or ramp, obviously if you were going to take the truck to a truck stop you were neither at a truck stop or rest area, no safe parking. He gets in bed immediately and you say, you logged in ( or thought you did), a good ELD would let you know you have no drive time left, as a matter of fact they are required to give you a overview on hours worked and left on your clocks. OK you are new and didn't realize it, I will grant you that. Now this is my opinion on this post and it looks like the officer saw it the same way I see it. It looks like you or your husband or both decided to chance you driving on his clock and got busted. Don't get upset at me for saying this, we all take chances out here. Driving 5 over speed limit, overweight, being in restricted lanes, blowing pass weigh station or taking different route to avoid them, the list goes on. I'm not accusing anyone but I'm trying to see it from the officers point of view.

Being a team driver myself I understand why you would go to a truck stop 20 miles down the road just coming from a 10 hour break. Most would drive a lot more than 20 miles coming from their required break. Maybe the officer didn't understand why you need to go to truck stop right after your break.

 

Hope you logged that time legally. I.e. on duty.
Might get another rude awakening when you go to leave if you didn't get the required 10 off/sleeper and they know you did the U Haul off load.

 

DOT told me that they do not like this bit of PSP points and records and all that. It is a creation of companies. Not any government agency. It is intended to take away responsibility from companies. Put all the blame on the driver. When it is half the driver, and half the company’s fault.
That is why you will find none of this on your actual drivers license record. Check your record at your DMV. It’s not there.
The government does this on purpose. To put half the blame back on the companies. Where it belongs. A company must participate in this system for any reference to you in any way.

 

I don't know if anyone ever taught you two to examine the air suspension gauge which takes information off your bags on the drives. If you are at 34000 perfect off a CAT scale, you mark that PSI spot with a permanent marker. Anytime the truck adds more air to level the drives and PSI goes over that value and marking, you know you are over weight already and take a very careful look at the CAT to confirm.

 

I pull a reefer. They lie all the time. 20000-25000 can put you over on the drives if it's not loaded correctly. No way 38000 should put you over gross.

I weigh every load unless it's obvious.

 

The OOS and the false records will be a good size hit on your CSA score. Don't get a bunch of those or you won't be insurable.

 

Wait, do you mean you went back to the shipper, had them off load product, then went back over the State scale without going to a Cat Scale (or similar) to check just in case???