What the...

Ok lemme get this straight your 21.5 on one of your axles on a spread...and I’m guessing under 40k on both....
If this is the case....while somewhat chicken#### of the scale officer
How is this anyone else’s problem but your own?!

 

Im a company driver but if I get an overweight citation and I dont have a legal scale ticket for the load I have to pay for the ticket. How can this be anyones responsibility other than the drivers

 

If he has a spread axle that isn’t as easy to fix as sliding a tandem group on a van. Probably would have had to go back to the shipper and rework the load, all over some arbitrary weight limit on an axle that probably wasn’t loaded to it’s rated limit anyway.

 

I agree it’s horse crap. Some partial responsibility for the bill should fall to both you and the company for lack of due diligence there. You get put in some compromising situations like this sometimes as a driver, trying not to waste a ton of time and annoy everybody by going back to the shipper to rework the load over some minor weight BS, which guys run stuff like that all the time and get away with. Then they hit you with this nonsense. And the fact that the axle is probably rated by the manufacturer to handle 21k or 21.5k safely anyway makes it even more silly.

 

There’s an imbalance in the ride height valves. The axles should be carrying equal weights. Without seeing a scale ticket and the load, there’s no way to say for sure. But, pulling a spread axle, one has to expect DOT is going to split the spread on the pads. This situation is one not doing their job.

 

You might have noticed I mentioned that...still your load your problem