Weight Limit

I haul refer trailers, and before that it was flatbeds. Generally you get an idea of how much weight you can load. For me anything over 45k is pushing it, and will need to be scaled out quickly to check. But alot of times you pick up from the same shippers, look at the weight, slide the tandems to the right spot and move on. I got one overweight ticket, and that was because it was a swap load, driver told me that he scaled it and it was legal. Well it was over on the trailer axles. I called the company and was told to mail in the ticket and write on it "Swapped with (truck number)" Haven't heard anything else about it.

 

Well, IF any way possible, weigh it at a truck stop BEFORE hitting the weigh station, IF you cannot find one before the station, ASK them to weigh you, most will be decent and help you if you are honest.

IF you hit the weigh station and there WAS a truck stop with a scale before it (and they will know) YOU will pay the ticket, NOT the company. BUT, if there was no scale to weight before the weigh station, then it is the SHIPPER'S responsibility to pay.

 

Full fuel tanks too.

 

i always wondered that because i used to pickup Alcohol from the San Fransisco area and i heard there was a scale in oakland but never found it because theres no exit numbers and signs telling you whats off the exit.... so i would always just take my chances and cross the scale's i always got the pre pass and made it to Tracy, CA and would scale at the Flying J there and they were always loaded weard...

Im trying to think of the 2 places one was in Hayward CA about 1 mile off the 880 and the other was on the west side of the bay off the 101 it was a Parrot bay place, they were both heavy and the Freakin parrot bay place would only Gross Weigh us and wouldn't even allow us to do Individual Axle

 

If you ever get out that way again there is a CAT scale in S. San Francisco. go south on hwy 101 to Grand exit (Just north of the airport) and go east about 2 blocks. There is two small truckstops one has a CAT scale

Going on with the original topic. I picked up in Livermore CA on night and the shipper was off the same exit that runs right into the DOT scale going east. It had been closed on my way in and hoped it would still be so I could get over to I-5 where I could scale it. It had opened up though. I took in my bills and my truck stop guide and politely showed the officer where I had planned to scale. Asked if there was any where closer; there wasn't. The kind officer took out a piece of DOT letterhead and wrote out what my weights where and a notation that the shipper would be billed if I was still over weight when I came back across. I was 1,700lbs over on my trailer. They took off 3,000lbs just to make sure there wouldn't be a problem.