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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 553925"><p>Haven't had to deal with issue directly(as I have yet to get a ticket) as I drive at night and so the few weigh stations I encounter are generally closed at night. Also, my theory is that a tractor trailer comb is not going to be overall overweight but overweight on an axle, particularly the tractor axle under the fifth wheel . My preemptive solution to this is if I have a trailer that is 75 %full, is that I will back it up in a straight line for about ten feet and hit the brakes, toppling the back walls of the loaded packages inside the trailer, causing the contents to fall backwards and distribute the weight more evenly in the trailer and taking some weight off that fifth wheel axle in particular. Works so far as I get the green light at the weigh station(the few times it is open). </p><p></p><p>I'll ask around but it's hard to get answers. Fellow feeder drivers are like porcupines. We like to huddle around each other for warmth and camaraderie on our breaks and then get pissed off at each other when we poke each other with our quills. i make it a point (bad Pun) to sheathe my quills but many don't do the same. So a lot of times, even when I am surrounded by fellow feeders, I have my shields up.</p><p></p><p>I know this for a fact , from my over the road friends from other companies, that I use to know , who got log book violations left and right. It appeared on their abstracts, but not as a moving violation nor were points assigned to these violations. It would be my belief that overweight violations are treated at most, the same. Don't know and so far , haven't had to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 553925"] Haven't had to deal with issue directly(as I have yet to get a ticket) as I drive at night and so the few weigh stations I encounter are generally closed at night. Also, my theory is that a tractor trailer comb is not going to be overall overweight but overweight on an axle, particularly the tractor axle under the fifth wheel . My preemptive solution to this is if I have a trailer that is 75 %full, is that I will back it up in a straight line for about ten feet and hit the brakes, toppling the back walls of the loaded packages inside the trailer, causing the contents to fall backwards and distribute the weight more evenly in the trailer and taking some weight off that fifth wheel axle in particular. Works so far as I get the green light at the weigh station(the few times it is open). I'll ask around but it's hard to get answers. Fellow feeder drivers are like porcupines. We like to huddle around each other for warmth and camaraderie on our breaks and then get pissed off at each other when we poke each other with our quills. i make it a point (bad Pun) to sheathe my quills but many don't do the same. So a lot of times, even when I am surrounded by fellow feeders, I have my shields up. I know this for a fact , from my over the road friends from other companies, that I use to know , who got log book violations left and right. It appeared on their abstracts, but not as a moving violation nor were points assigned to these violations. It would be my belief that overweight violations are treated at most, the same. Don't know and so far , haven't had to know. [/QUOTE]
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