Run with overweight load???

I agree. Run it. Dodge the first scale or 2 if necessary and smack your partner. That was a rookie move (fueling before scaling a heavy load). I have been there a few times myself and it will look good for you in dispatches eyes if you pull this off without giving them grief for 1, and 2, not getting ticketed in the process. Team players at companies are rewarded, while whiners and complainers are weeded out, your choice though.
Figure on burning off about 8 lbs for each 6 to 7 miles you drive but remember no 2 scales are calibrated to read the same weight (they might get close but I have seen as much as a 300 lb difference in gross weight at the SAME scale when reweighing) meaning the truckstop scale may show lighter OR heavier than a dot scale.

 

I wouldent be scared. i 've next to never heard of anyone getting busted on less than 1,000 lbs. small potatoes my friend. Have a safe trip




side note: The truck i drove all this week weighed 94,000 lbs- and that was BOL weight PLUS truck and trailer (roughly 50,000 full of fuel no cargo).... cost me 38.50 in bridge tolls to cross the mighty mac

 

Good advise thus far as per winging it across the chicken house , assuming ya can get'er down to just say "a couple hundred" over.

I'll not speak for any scale house masters, but I will say that I've stood, in person, at the scale desks and watched the digital readout weights and saw the sclale master give the green light to trucks "a few hundred over" (axle)

A few hundred over is like doing 67 mph in a 65 zone.

You said he fueled up, then scaled it out. I hope that all did not take place at the same truckstop, LOL

Cat scale THEN take on fuel depending on what the ticket says. Do the favor and things should reciprocate in your favor later on.

Lastley, 10-4 on the dispatch knowing who will run vs who will whine.

Hey good luck!

 

Knoxville TN scales westbond, let me roll across 2K on the trailer tandems (couldn't slide it off). The guy must have been on a bathroom break or something. I'd been sweating bullets all evening. They were the only scale that red lighted me from PA.