Anyone see this? trucker hit with 31,000 dollar over weight ticket

cableguymn · Dec 31, 2011

Truck Driver Gets $30K Ticket - Fox Small Business Center Video - FoxSmallBusinessCenter.com

while pulled over getting his 30K ticket he watched another 18 wheeler roll by.. Cops did nothing.

zorry · Dec 31, 2011

PC-Miler . Kept mine two weeks.

Doggie Daddy · Dec 31, 2011

I wonder if PC miler would have told him to turn right into the Ohio river, if he would have followed that direction?

OntarioVanMan · Dec 31, 2011

Doggie Daddy said:
I wonder if PC miler would have told him to turn right into the Ohio river, if he would have followed that direction?

The driver bears some responsibility....

mjmsprt40 · Dec 31, 2011

I use a TomTom. I regularly have to over-ride its directions, especially in Chicago. Now, mine isn't a trucker's GPS, so I understand that there are differences, but the basic idea is the same. I drive a commercial van, so I can't go on boulevards in Chicago. Tom Tom never met a boulevard it didn't like. If I followed its directions, I'd have tickets like you wouldn't believe.

Get a Trucker's Atlas. It's a start, anyway, and if you have to take a truck on a restricted road-- be ready to PROVE you have to do it to make the delivery.

layoutshooter · Dec 31, 2011

Could not watch the video. Too bad there was not a written story with it.

I often wonder how truckers can remain in total compliance with weight laws and still do business. On many occasions we have had to travel on roads that were marked with weight limits that we exceed. The road was the only way into or out of a pick up or delivery. This happens both out in the country and in the center of a big city. How are these business places going to remain in business if no trucks can get in or out? What about all of the museums? Many of them are in large cites and require large trucks to move art work. There is seldom a "legal" way for anything larger than a cargo van to get in or out of those places. A van cannot carry the freight. Nothing like stupidity to rule the world.

OntarioVanMan · Dec 31, 2011

layoutshooter said:
Could not watch the video. Too bad there was not a written story with it.

I often wonder how truckers can remain in total compliance with weight laws and still do business. On many occasions we have had to travel on roads that were marked with weight limits that we exceed. The road was the only way into or out of a pick up or delivery. This happens both out in the country and in the center of a big city. How are these business places going to remain in business if no trucks can get in or out? What about all of the museums? Many of them are in large cites and require large trucks to move art work. There is seldom a "legal" way for anything larger than a cargo van to get in or out of those places. A van cannot carry the freight. Nothing like stupidity to rule the world.

He could have call PA DOT to confirm...he mentioned route 910...that is a county rd. He mentioned 3 ways of getting into an airport..hard to believe at least one of them was for trucks....

Many signs into a city say for local deliveries only....that would be you....and if your overweight,,,it is on you...and your shipper...an overweight permit maybe?

layoutshooter · Dec 31, 2011

Could not see the video so I don't know this case. We delivered a pump to a coal mine in PA. Every road and bridge going into or out of that mine was weight restricted. I went in along with several large coal haulers, all of us over weight. PA could make a fortune sitting outside that mine. Many of these regulations are nothing more that a money grab.

They need to get smart with these restricted areas so they make sense. It is not always the condition of a road or bridge that prompts a weight restriction. It is often pure politics and nothing more.

Bruno · Jan 1, 2012

$30,000.00 for a over weight ticket is a crime if you ask me. This is highway robbery, this just makes me never want to go into PA again.

DannyD · Jan 1, 2012

I hope he goes in front of a judge w/ some common sense. I've got to believe there's more to the story than meets the eye. There's no way this kind of thing is worth even close to $30,000 with what I've seen on the video.

Out of curiosity, how much would an overweight ticket run? I'm guessing different amounts for different situations, but what might be a ballpark figure?

Also, do they give leeway on that at all akin to ya often get 5MPH over on speeds? So if someone's running 26,030 pounds, are they generally strict on that amount or how much do ya have to be over until you know you're probably in deep kaka?

OntarioVanMan · Jan 1, 2012

if he was on a 10k road and he was 40k...that is 30k over and a buck a pound...just saying...

greg334 · Jan 1, 2012

May be no one noticed but fox opened with saying this was because of Obama. A little disingenuous if you ask me.

beachbum · Jan 1, 2012

Gregg, I caught the same thing. It was a state issue not a Fed issuse on the ticket.

greg334 · Jan 1, 2012

Beach dude,
I'm not saying a word about the driver but rather fox's inability of being honest with the information.

It is like their reporting of the girls scout thing the other day, they ignored all the other information just to focus on one issue and only one issue.

I truly hope the ticket is thrown out.

guido4475 · Jan 1, 2012

A friend of mine posted this story on Facebook, it was amazing.Ridiculous.un- constitutional.

greg334 · Jan 1, 2012

Ridiculous?

Yes

Unconstitutional?

Nope not at all.

Turtle · Jan 1, 2012

greg334 said:
Beach dude,
I'm not saying a word about the driver but rather fox's inability of being honest with the information.

Which is why anyone who watches Fox News and thinks they're getting "fair and balanced", or even honest news, are fools. Fools, I tell you, fools!

layoutshooter · Jan 1, 2012

Turtle said:
Which is why anyone who watches Fox News and thinks they're getting "fair and balanced", or even honest news, are fools. Fools, I tell you, fools!

Same with the rest of the networks.