Comments on: My Overweight Ticket http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket Helping Those Who Are Considering A Career In The Truck Driving Industry Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: james http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket/comment-page-1#comment-2275 james Sat, 14 May 2011 23:00:14 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1988#comment-2275 U so rite there driver but all of us drivers know that some times it dont work out like that U so rite there driver but all of us drivers know that some times it dont work out like that

]]> By: Rhonda Jensen http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket/comment-page-1#comment-1675 Rhonda Jensen Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:19:44 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1988#comment-1675 Hi Lightnin Guess you can learn something every day if you want too. I did not know about this regulation. I wonder if it implies to city police as it was the city police who stopped me, not the DOT. I do know that any law enforcement agency has the right to stop you. This was the first time I was in a situation with local law enforcment. My employer must not have wanted to fight it, but they knew I refused to pay the ticket. Hi Lightnin
Guess you can learn something every day if you want too. I did not know about this regulation. I wonder if it implies to city police as it was the city police who stopped me, not the DOT. I do know that any law enforcement agency has the right to stop you. This was the first time I was in a situation with local law enforcment. My employer must not have wanted to fight it, but they knew I refused to pay the ticket.

]]> By: Lightnin http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket/comment-page-1#comment-1674 Lightnin Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:28:04 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1988#comment-1674 Hello, neither you or your company should have paid the ticket on the overload. By the FMCSR's guide to rules and laws ., If the shipper does not provide a scale on the property the DOT has to give you the right of way to the first state certified scale to make your load right or go back to the shipper to have them make it right. What happened to you is entrapment and is not legeal! But as anyone who is out there knows ,they don't follow their own laws and rules unless they are shown that they are wrong and can't do that. If you let them get away with it they are going to keep doing it. To bend the law means easy money for them .If you don't know the law they will continue to get away with it . They know that you aren't going to come back and fight it and just about every company out there will pay the money and not think twice about it . When I first started I was tired of getting beat down by all the DOT and other officers everytime I turned around so, in my little bit of spare time, I read that little book and then bought the revised J.J. Keller addition didn't get much headachs after that .... But remember knowing the law is not always a good thing so be cautious if they want to they will find something wrong .... Be safe out there ... Hello, neither you or your company should have paid the ticket on the overload. By the FMCSR’s guide to rules and laws ., If the shipper does not provide a scale on the property the DOT has to give you the right of way to the first state certified scale to make your load right or go back to the shipper to have them make it right. What happened to you is entrapment and is not legeal! But as anyone who is out there knows ,they don’t follow their own laws and rules unless they are shown that they are wrong and can’t do that. If you let them get away with it they are going to keep doing it. To bend the law means easy money for them .If you don’t know the law they will continue to get away with it . They know that you aren’t going to come back and fight it and just about every company out there will pay the money and not think twice about it .
When I first started I was tired of getting beat down by all the DOT and other officers everytime I turned around so, in my little bit of spare time, I read that little book and then bought the revised J.J. Keller addition didn’t get much headachs after that …. But remember knowing the law is not always a good thing so be cautious if they want to they will find something wrong …. Be safe out there …

]]> By: Rhonda Jensen http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket/comment-page-1#comment-1670 Rhonda Jensen Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:18:12 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1988#comment-1670 Hi Angelique Good question and the only answer I know is that this is how trucking got started in this country and its been around since the 1930's. Our flatbeds that carry heavy loads all the time, do have more axles. There has been articles in the last year that I have read about adding another axle to the trailers so we can carry more weight. I do not know any more on that at this time. Hi Angelique
Good question and the only answer I know is that this is how trucking got started in this country and its been around since the 1930′s. Our flatbeds that carry heavy loads all the time, do have more axles. There has been articles in the last year that I have read about adding another axle to the trailers so we can carry more weight. I do not know any more on that at this time.

]]> By: Angelique from Holland http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/rjensen1918/2009/11/my-overweight-ticket/comment-page-1#comment-1664 Angelique from Holland Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:34 +0000 http://www.truckingtruth.com/trucking_blogs/?p=1988#comment-1664 Comment on overweight Why do American trailers only have 2 axles? Most of our trailers have 3 ... well we may way up to 50.000 KGS in Holland. And my Rig also has 3 axles. So in total I have 6 to share the weight of truck and load. 2 axles I have seen on a lot of American trucks when I was over in the USA for a holiday. I really wonder about that ... only 2! Comment on overweight

Why do American trailers only have 2 axles?
Most of our trailers have 3 … well we may way up to 50.000 KGS in Holland.
And my Rig also has 3 axles. So in total I have 6 to share the weight of truck and load.

2 axles I have seen on a lot of American trucks when I was over in the USA for a holiday.
I really wonder about that … only 2!

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