Posted on 12/31/2011 8:43:00 AM PST by cableguymn
Trucker nailed with a 30,855 dollar over weight fine. did not know the road was weight restricted until it was to late (sign was not visible until he was past the point of no return) while turning around he was stopped by local PD. While being weighed and handed the ticket he watched another truck that was over the limit (road had a 10 ton limit. 18 wheel trucks weigh more than that empty)
Police claim he was not doing a local delivery. He was less than 4 miles from his delivery.
I am as opposed to police being a revenue generation source as anyone, but OTOH enforcing weight limits seem less a revenue source than enforcing speed limits. By way of comparison to the fine, what would it cost to fix the road if it broke, including opportunity costs while it was broken?
My husband and I teamed for a short while. Hats off to truckers, that is the hardest job I have tried. You know, truckers get picked on while every day drivers maliciously take the wheel. Mexican truckers, no problem. I have seen under the hood of one, crapola. The only way to stay profitable anymore is to claim you are illegal. ICE has a hotline for you to call as well if you are arrested. LOL. No more pre- trip, no more worries, drive as many hours as you like.
Fund raising opportunity by local authorities. They probably know full well that this situation exists, where truckers cannot see the load-limit sign until too late to do anything about it. They probably set it up that way.
There is an exemption for using roads like this to make a local delivery. The driver tried several other routes to his drop that are all weight restricted. This driver, like the one that drove past while he was getting the ticket should have been exempt from the weight limit because of the fact that all routes to the drop where weight restricted.
The driver is lawyered up and fighting this.
Yup. A officer admitted it to a driver as reported on the David Webb show on Sirius.
I drove commercially for years. Once while driving a straight truck in backwoods South Carolina, I got pulled over on a road that was restricted at 5 tons. The fine is a dollar-per-pound over the limit. My truck happened to be completely empty, and the cop could not ascertain exactly how much the truck weighed empty, so he cut me a break and let me go. Had he weighed my truck, I would have been facing a $7,000 fine.
In that case I’d be all over a class-action lawsuit personally against those authorities. Sue them personally for three times the fine.
Would not that information be on the truck's registration?
Registration usually shows max gross wt
My son was in the trucking business also. Not only did he have to worry about weight stations,he was pulled over and inspected all the time. They got under his truck with mirrors to find anything they could fine. That fact plus huge insurance costs caused him to sell his equipment and get out. I bet the Mexicans/illegals weren't put to as much scrutiny. Makes one sick.
You miss the point. This is STRICTLY A REVENUE ENHANCER, WHEN THERE ARE NO OTHER ROADS AVAILABLE AND THE LIMIT IS SET EXTREMELY LOW. The sign was placed beyond the point of no return. So they hide the fact that a extremely low weight road was blocking the way to a local delivery. This is Marxism, pure and simple. In fact the whole system involving trucks is UN- Constitutional and what the Commerce clause was suppose to stop.
Money, money, money... pensions, pensions, pensions
Max loaded/gross minus payload (all info is on a metal data plate on the front of the box or attached to the cab on a straight truck) would be the empty weight which is usually quoted with full oil and other expendables but minimal fuel ,, empty should be listed also..
That's my kind of talk! We need to see a lot more of this.
If true, doesn't this qualify as entrapment?
The truck I saw, obviously had it’s spring brakes come on. He had the hood open in the fuel bay. Wires dangling, patched hoses, it was just horrifying. This man might be driving on the same road as you or I.. or our kids. Yikes.
Yes.
Watch for weight signs.. you’ll see this in a lot of places.
I run under 10K now. Hardly a road out there I can’t run on (unless it says “no commercial trucks” or load limit 9000 GVW like 35E south of Saint Paul MN)
Police claim he was not doing a local delivery. He was less than 4 miles from his delivery.
I guess it depends on how they define 'local delivery'. On the report the driver said he was another town... Either way, Pa towns are starving for money because they won't quit spending, and it's easier to stick to someone from out of town.
See my post #8.
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