Overweight (not Me..my Load)

So where I am working I do my service then get to haul various things with an older Kenworth. I have been hauling this old tanker with 6470 gallons of water, it is pre-spring brakes, and was an old acid trailer so all the baffles are gone making it basically a smooth bore. In order to prevent surge I have been loading it completely full. Out of curiosity yesterday I took it to our scalehouse and it scaled at 90,460 lbs. Front axle was about 10,020lbs, drives were 41,460 and trailer axles were about 51,480lbs.

So I told my direct supervisor about it being almost 11,000lbs over the legal limit and his response was don't worry about it, you wont get weighed etc.

I am concerned because while it doesn't seem to be an issue to pull it or stop it, it is illegal.

For now I have stopped hauling it and am instead hauling an old tar trailer that at 6270 gallons of water, would still be overweight but it has baffles so I can load it less than full to make sure I stay legal. I am experimenting with it to see what level I can fill it to to remain under 80k and be legal on all axles.

Would a ticket for being overweight follow me throughout my career? I know they have portable scales and I don't want to get ANY tickets while I do a year or 2 here to get some experience.

Also we have other trucks I drive that are in one way or another illegal. Is this common or is the company I am working for a joke?

Thanks, Phil

EVERYTHING goes in your PERMENANT RECORD. The kid you beat up in fourth grade? It's in there.

Seriously, CSA violation limits for drivers is three years (36 months) from the date of the infraction. Employers, might have different rules.

Dave

I had a good trainer that told me just remember one thing. It is your license and it goes where you go, it does not stay at the company that screws you. Refuse to haul it and if they fire you for it, then you have some recourse available to you. But figure 8 pounds per gallon of water i believe.

Phil, I think it is pretty common in the road construction business to try and bend the rules a little bit. After all you are not running OTR and your boss is thinking you probably won't get weighed, and he is probably correct most of the time about that. If it were me, I would just load the thing so that it was legal and do my best to keep an adequate following distance and stopping distance so that I could deal with the surge. It doesn't matter who advises you to load that thing up, if you are the one driving it you are responsible for the ticket. You want to keep as clean a record as you possibly can, so the only way to guarantee that you don't get a ticket is to make sure there is nothing that you can be ticketed for.