{"id":16770,"date":"2024-11-28T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/overweight-ticket-oregon-split-axle-flatbed-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:28:00","slug":"overweight-ticket-oregon-split-axle-flatbed-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/overweight-ticket-oregon-split-axle-flatbed-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Overweight Ticket Oregon Split Axle Flatbed | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"AFC\">\n<aside>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<div class=\"quote\">I am asking for advice as well as public announcement to flatbed drivers with split axles.<br \/>\nI was loaded with railroad tie downs (lumber) in Klamath falls. Load was suppose to be heavy so I split my axles: my trailer can be tandem or split. I went to the pilot and weighed my truck before the scales. I didn\u2019t weigh it as split axle but just regular (big mistake) my weight according to the cat scale was under 71k and my trailer was under 29k. I didn\u2019t think twice and would never have even thought that the weight could be all on a single axle. I get to the scale and they said that my gross weight was 74k a difference of 3500 lbs compared to the cat scale and that my split trailer axles were 6k on the 4th axle and over 25k on the 5th axle. Ticket is $795.<br \/>\nI told the DOT that I can close my axles and be legal and that I was trying to just work and not cheat the system. I showed him the cat scale, but he didn\u2019t give me a break. Not sure if he didn\u2019t have discretion in this matter or he just didn\u2019t care. He did make me reweigh with my tandems closed before being allowed to leave the scale.<br \/>\nRequesting Advice: is there a truckers lawyer for this that won\u2019t cost more than the ticket?<br \/>\nWould you pay it since it won\u2019t affect your driving record?<br \/>\nWould you bring it to the cat scales attention for any type of reprieve?<\/p>\n<p>Public Announcement: Even if you know your good on your trailer axle weight since it\u2019s split, please make sure you individual axles are legal.<br \/>Supporting Pictures Attached<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The good news is an overweight\/over axle ticket is just money out of your pocket, not really a serious mark on your PSP.<\/p>\n<p>Call CAT scales, although if you &#8220;drove&#8221; differently than you &#8220;weighed&#8221; on the CAT scales you are SOL. CAT will help with tickets if you weighed with CAT and you are fined for more weight than CAT said you weighed. NO OFFICER is going to see a CAT scale and tear up a ticket. Officers work by their certified scales. Showing a CAT scale ticket to an officer is like telling your wife your girlfriend doesn&#8217;t mind cooking your favorite meal. Even if it&#8217;s true, that&#8217;s not the point or the winning argument to make.<\/p>\n<p>I weighed in L.A. going to NC. Got legal, THEN I SLIDE MY 5TH WHEEL TO IMPROVE RIDE, and drove all the way to east side of Memphis, TN before I TN DOT discovered that sliding my 5th wheel slid and extra 1,500 pounds onto my trailer tandems. TN fines you and charges a fee for every pound. Live and learn.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/overweight-ticket-oregon-split-axle-flatbed.2516669\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking for advice as well as public announcement to flatbed drivers with split axles. I was loaded with railroad tie downs (lumber) in Klamath falls. Load was suppose to be heavy so I split my axles: my trailer can be tandem or split. I went to the pilot and weighed my truck before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}