will i get a ticket if...

Perhaps it was judged to be so morally?

Mikeeee

 

Was very hard to contain laughter and move along. 'thank you, be safe ' to the officer.
Wow, That was hard to turn that citation into my employer. My boss, Mechanics laughing at/with me. Everyone tried to loosen it.... Weirdest ticket. Have the photocopy framed sitting above the TV. Paid the $109 lmao.




Don't worry OP. Weigh stations are legit The local DOT is another topic

 

You Bet. We do things slow, Maybe the Sothern Bells are smiling so much. I'm causation, hard to find now.
I asked Her, Computers or Trucks. She Passed away. I'm still here.

 

A drunk man in a cowboy hat took me by surprise. I don't feel nothing but a cold chill. I understand the spirits of the road. Ride the road a long time. You will know.

 

Slow and steady. no rush. The south is okay in my book. Pretty land and pretty women

 

every state and every treatment is different, I've gotten axle overweight tickets for 500 lbs, and like two weeks ago, was ignored for being 2,100 over gross. It depends on the scale master, his/her mood and as someone else, if they are paying attention. Years back, took a 20' container on a stretch chassis from Denver to Laramie. I grossed 72,000 lbs, got a green light on prepass at Ft. Collins, hit Cheyenne, got red lighted and promptly put OOS for bridge law violation. Was 2,000 lbs over gross for Wyo. bridge law based on my length. Boss had to send another truck up, we hand off-loaded 2,100 lbs of shelving onto another trailer, scaled both, promptly drove to Love's and put the stuff back on my trailer, and away I went.

 

Sometimes I think it depends on the scale as well. Don't bash me, this is what the officer at the scale house explained to me.

I got an overweight ticket at the Tilford, S. Dakota scale house.

Load was going from WA state down to Tennessee. Load scaled fine in WA so i hit the road. I heard a thump at one point while slowing to turn into a truck stop. I checked things out and couldn't determine the cause of the thump. At that point I should have rescaled the load but I didn't. I really didnt even think anything of the thump until much later. I was/am a newbie. I crossed a "rolling" scale later and observed on the screen that my drives were over by a couple of thousand. However i wasnt called in to the scale house.

I thought back to the thump and figured I got lucky at this rolling scale house. I figured my freight somehow shifted forward causing my drives to be over and that on this particular day I got lucky. He must be sleeping in there. So in taking some misguided initiative I pulled to the side at the scale house and moved my tandems up 4 holes to compensate for the 2,000 lb weight overage. Again, I didn't scale after moving the tandems. I was brand new and was being completely ignorant. I continued down the road into S. Dakota.

I went over the scale in S. Dakota, stopping completely on the scale. I couldn't believe it (at the time), I was over weight on my tandems. I was called into the scale house, given a ticket I had to pay on the spot based on the amount overweight and had to correct the axle weights and scale proper before leaving. A hard lesson for a mistake I never should have made.

When I reiterated the whole thumping sound experience and the subsequent crossing the rolling scale in the other state (without being called in back in the other state), me moving my tandems forward, etc. the officer explained that the rolling scales were not as accurate as then scales you stop on. That doesn't make sense to me but it is what he said. I think the other scale house worker was sleeping but hey what do I know.

Best way to avoid all of this is to just scale. When in doubt rescale.

 

well think of the rolling scales like if you got on a scale at home, if you move around the weight changes correct? same as a weigh in motion scale, at a static scale you stop and you can see the weight changing numbers for a couple seconds until everything settles.

 

Exactly. What I don't understand is are those scale houses using the rolling scale method of weighing just get a rough idea if we are over weight or is there more to it.

 

In Larime, WY or Montana, or there about. I saw 3 scale people with the same name tag. Is it a family thing? We find things to make money, we don't grow crops no more.