scale ticket

depending on your state and from the new regulation that they have now not only you will have the ticket posted to your record but the company you drive for will have that ticket too but you are the one who is going to pay the fine if you think that you have to consent or Not you really don't have that option unless the scale that weighed your truck was out of service you are here by guilty as charged Mr. Chicken Hauler
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overweight tickets go to the company that owns the truck. If you are an O/O, you pay. It also doesn't go on your driver's license, since I assume you got it going over a scale, and not on the side of the road at a portable scale after being pulled over. If you get pulled over and do a portable scale check, they do go on your license (a DOT guy at a scale told this). I don't know how they handle the CSA points though. I've gotten plenty of overweight tickets hauling dry bulk cement and they aren't on my CSA, so that's something.

As with many things, DOT has alot of leeway to handle each situation the way they feel is best. Whatever you do, don't go into their office cursing.

 

No CSA points charged for size or weight violations. Securement, proper safety lighting, signage, flags etc there are points charged for those violations butttt remember, PONTS CAN ONLY BE CHARGED IF GIVEN AN ACTUAL DOT INSPECTION AND THE VIOLATIONS ARE LISTED ON THE INSPECTION FORM. Paper ticket with a vehicle code violation listed is not an inspection!!!!!!!

 

Maybe that's the way it is in FL but it's not in AZ. A few years ago AZ passed a law that said overweight tickets will go on your license. And yes it is a CSA points violation. How many? I can't tell you but you can look it up. Pretty much everything will go on your CSA. Getting the ticket for 50 bucks is the least of your worries and......not even 7 years ago you could have paid this and there would probably not have been any more consequences. Before you pay it I would check-out exactly how pleading guilty will impact you.

 

I stand corrected.... There are no points assessed. Hard to believe but that's what it says.

 

only time csa points are assessed are during an inspection, if there are violations.

 

BTW overweight tickets do not go to the company. You are the captain of the ship. You are responsible for loading it so you are responsible if it is overweight. Some companies will tell you they will pay the ticket if you receive one and in some cases they will but....this purely a courtesy on their part.

 

What's to contest? Pay it, learn from the mistake and move on.

Set you a load weight that I don't have to scale out/I do have to scale out weight. As a newer driver I would scale more frequently until you know your limits and how to balance your load out.

Like my last truck I had a pressure gauge and I wouldn't scale unless I was over 38K just to be sure. When I pulled off the dock most of the time I could get within 2 holes even heavy. When you have less than 26 pallets try to extend them out to the 44'-48' mark to give room to slide your axles and meet most bridge laws. Then put the end of the last pallet a hole or two past the center of the rear axle and you'll be pretty close to right. That's considering you have pallets of similar weight.

But when your company reimburses for scale tickets don't hesitate to scale out. The more experienced you get the better you will get at it. Sometimes you have to pay for experience!

I always looked at scaling out as a game to see how close to right I could get before hand. I very rarely had to do a reweigh.

 

Pay your fine. Don't expect the company to pay for something you did. Duh.