Held at ws til overweight ticket paid
#11
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
Well think what you will DD60, but that is EXACTLY what I had to do when I was nailed there for being overweight on my drives. This was about 8 years ago, so maybe things have changed, but I assure everyone that is what I had to do.
I was under on my gross, but due to my load sliding I was over on the drives by about 4,000 when I crossed that scale. The Joplin scales had some real problems in the past. Thankfully most of those problems have been corrected. kc0iv
#12
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: East Central IL between the corn and the beans
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Originally Posted by Part Time Dweller
In IL you don't leave the scale till the $$ is in their hands, and truck made legal.
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#13
Thank you everyone for the responses!!! I had never heard of this...I thought if you were overweight ( which I have NEVER done ) they would park you til you were legal. After 1 1/2 years, I am still learning new things everyday!!!
Be safe out there!!
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#14
I have had several over weight tickets in Ohio, I think it's 7? The tickets were always issued to me but the company has to pay with a COMDATA check before you can leave and the weight issue has to be corrected also (non-moving violation so they don't go on your record). I have had 2 equipment violations (broken springs 2 separate times), tickets were issued to me and they are on my record and the fine is paid to the county just as if you got a speeding ticket.
ps. All the above violations came from when I was driving for Roadway.
#16
I was cited at the POE in Minnesota back on the Tuesday after Memorial Day in 2003. I could not leave until I paid the overweight fine.
Bit of a shock I made it from Georgetown, SC to the POE without a single scale being open, but oh well. JB Hunt said that was part of a trend of being unsafe. I was due for a major wreck because of this and lane change complaints. :P |
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