$17000.00 ticket wtf

[HOTROD29335]

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9756769/detail.html :shock:

[Mr. Ford95]

Sounds like the kid at the quarry telling everyone in the office how he got held by DOT for 6 hours on the side of the road and they did a weight check plus an inspection, then gave him a ticket for overweight, said he was over by 16 tons on a truck that can only haul 12 tons which means he would have been hauling a total of nearly 28 tons. Said it was a local yokel but not from the county he was in when stopped. Claimed the ticket was for $10K.

I can believe that happening in Philly. We have a local yokel(same one from above) that only stops trucks to do an inspection. He never weighs them, he leaves that to the state guys. Every truck he stops gets an OOS sticker on the window and he calls the hook. The other day he was doing a stop on a Swift truck that was broke down, guess he put that truck OOS since it had popped the engine and was leaking oil all over the road.....

[golfhobo]

Metzger said there is a reason the fines are so stiff.

"The money can go right back into the repairs of the roadway or the bridge," Metzger said.

Okay.... I want to see the RECEIPTS for the repair, or preferably the reconstruction of the bridge to higher weight standards! (if neither is forthcoming, I just might want to return some night and blow that bridge up!.... FORCING them to spend my money on the pupose it was stolen for!)

I would want to see that my money wasn't spent on a local legislature's "junket!"

IF I had to pay such a fine, might it not be a "cost of doing business" that (if I were an O/o) I could take off on my taxes?

These kinds of "penalties" are not only exhorbitant, they are probably unconstitutional! This is WORSE than a "speed trap!"

What was that cop DOING in that residential neighborhood? Just waiting for a trucker, I would think!

This is ABSOLUTELY a form of "tort!" And didn't we pass some form of Tort Reform law? :shock:

[TK THE TRUCKER]

I guess if vehicles over 3,000 lbs damage that road they should keep school buses, garbage trucks and every ones pick up truck off of it too. My Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab with Duramax comes in at about 7,400 lbs so I guess I would get a ticket if I drove down that road because I would be damaging it. :?

[Orangetxguy]

I guess if vehicles over 3,000 lbs damage that road they should keep school buses, garbage trucks and every ones pick up truck off of it too. My Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab with Duramax comes in at about 7,400 lbs so I guess I would get a ticket if I drove down that road because I would be damaging it. :?

Very good point TK. I bet the "local's" don't look at the friendlies that way though.

[Uturn2001]

Never have seen a road or bridge with a posted 3000 lb weight limit.

[marylandkw]

Never have seen a road or bridge with a posted 3000 lb weight limit.

Got a couple around me, well 4000lbs. Old covered bridges. And one right down the road at 7000lbs and I hate driving my honda over it for all the creaks and rattles But you would have to be a fool to try to get a 80k 53' down those roads...we did have one fool last year. Road was closed for 4 weeks

[sazook]

IF I had to pay such a fine, might it not be a "cost of doing business" that (if I were an O/o) I could take off on my taxes?

According to my understanding, fines are NOT allowed to be deducted.

[Mr. Ford95]

Local town near me has several roads that say no thru vehicles over 5K allowed. That includes the locals with pickups and SUV's who can be fined. One of our drivers got stopped and ticketed there, cop stopped him about halfway thru the street and told him, I know your going all the way thru so I'm going to cite you..... :? Guess that cop had ESP or could see the future.

[Windwalker]

If you remember, last year, a $14,000 ticket for being on a RESTRICTED STREET because the sign post was bent and he could not read the sign.. That was North Philly too. They have their own DOT Unit. And, the State sanctions the fines. Not the first high dollar ticket they've issued there.

Best thing... REFUSE TO SERVE THAT AREA ANY MORE BECAUSE OF EXCESSIVE FINES!!!

[Ronin]

Sounds like the best solution to the problem. Either the businesses pressure the local pork by-products (I will not insult true policemen by calling these two-bit scabs cops) to fix their major league anal-cranial inversion or they can pack up and move elsewhere and damage the local economy.

[Fancy_Maneuvers]

C'mon drivers! Haven't y'all been listening to the news floating around the state of PA? I mean, if they can't fine us $17000 they'll have to toll I-80.. or sell PA Tpke to China or Columbia or whomever else has the highest bid!
I mean, they need money for more bike trails, railroad museums and such and so forth, I thought y'all knew this... sheesh!
And another thought --> perhaps they would allow him to pay his fine out of the various salaries this driver's taxes have provided (you know, since he was based out of PA especially)... ridiculous.

[Phantom433a]

And one right down the road at 7000lbs and I hate driving my honda over it for all the creaks and rattles

Better get that honda into the shop if it rattles and creaks that much

In Glen Carbon, Illinois there is a covered bridge thats only like 9 feet and a pumpkin TRIED to roll across it.....was over weight as well

[Mr. Ford95]

In Glen Carbon, Illinois there is a covered bridge thats only like 9 feet and a pumpkin TRIED to roll across it.....was over weight as well

So you say they tried to roll across it, how'd that end? Stuck or in the ravine?

[Phantom433a]

he got halfway across befor getting wedged

[Gearjammin' Penguin]

If you remember, last year, a $14,000 ticket for being on a RESTRICTED STREET because the sign post was bent and he could not read the sign.. That was North Philly too. They have their own DOT Unit. And, the State sanctions the fines. Not the first high dollar ticket they've issued there.

Whaddya bet it's Roscoe and Enos turning the signs around in the first place? :|