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ibamars · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 313 Location: New York

I had to post this. Couldn't believe it when I saw it and read it.

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

Hopefully I set this link up right.

TruckerChris · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject:

I heard about that on Land line now... Absolutley ridiculous...

Jackrabbit379 · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 4754 Location: Wichita Falls,Tx

Man,that is just crazy. It almost sounds like going to the meat market. So much a pound :P

Crackaces · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1343

Arteisa Blvd in LA west of Valley View Blvd will get you a $1 per pound over 8,000 pounds for the rated tonnage of the truck. So Bob tailing will still get you a $72,000 ticket. :shock:

Tilar · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 34

Crackaces wrote: Arteisa Blvd in LA west of Valley View Blvd will get you a $1 per pound over 8,000 pounds for the rated tonnage of the truck. So Bob tailing will still get you a $72,000 ticket. :shock:

That would be one heavy tractor =)

BanditsCousin · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 3322 Location: Chicago, IL

I run into this crap all the time. Most cops will get ya out of there or something along those lines. Of course, its my job to get in and out of neighborhoods :) They usually never mess with moving vans, and with good reason. A 3000lb weight limit (even if it were tons = 6000lbs) that woul;d barely support a Ford Excursion. Some county municipalities are crooked.

coalregion · Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 288 Location: NE PA

I wonder if that fine came with a big tub of Vaseline... :shock:

mrwiszer · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 52

My brother got fined for $16,000. for being 52,000 overweight with a lo-boy and a Cat excavator in PA. We tried to move it on a Saturday with no permit. Went to court and got it reduced to $3,000.

Douglas · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 251

mrwiszer wrote: My brother got fined for $16,000. for being 52,000 overweight with a lo-boy and a Cat excavator in PA. We tried to move it on a Saturday with no permit. Went to court and got it reduced to $3,000.

I've heard an excavator weighs 96'000 lbs. :shock:

Overloaded · Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 80 Location: West Virginia

Quote: I've heard an exavator weighs 96,000 lbs. :shock:

Caterpillar excavators can weigh between 15,000 and 187,000 lbs.

lifespalette · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 305

Afraid I'd have to fight that one in court............many residential roads are actually part of the community and the ownership falls under the community board or the developer..........and legally, the jurisdiction for traffic enforcement is out of the hands of the local police departments.

For the municipalities to take ownership and maintenance responsibilities, they require the developer to put in a thicker base and thicker asphalt cover....... or in other words to meet the state DOT regs .........many developers will try to take the short cut, convey ownership to the community association and put in a crappy road that leaves the association dealing with pot holes and wash outs for years to come...............

Windwalker · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 3003 Location: Holiday, FL

So, now I know a couple of places in the country that I WILL NOT GO TO... What we need now is for everyone else to refuse to go there. When businesses there start to die off, some body will see the light... Won't they?... Or will they???

roadranger · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: I hate Vermont!

Speaking of stupid limits, lots of Vt is under 24000lbs, posted or not. One run we regularly do is deliver cans full of chinese cast iron (live unload floor loads 2-4 hours) to the Vermont Castings stove plant in Bethel just off I89. Their freakin' DRIVEWAY is posted 24000 - even registered as such with the state :shock: . So they tell us to ignore it like all the other trucks do - and the boss says he'll pay any fines. What B.S. - you bite Vt! And friday I take a 53' in behind our shortest tractor (to be under 68') to Manchester Center and follow directions given by the receiver to a huge fairly new plant that is obviously set up to take 53' trailers about a mile off Rt 7. As I was leaving the road out was posted 24000 - but no signs coming in! I looked it up on the state site and the town had three bridges on that road I went down registered as 25000 as well as the entire road connecting to Rt 7- and again the freakin" DRIVEWAY also registered as 25000. Well, I suppose it goes to show you what happens when you elect a bunch of inbred banjo pickers to government office cuz' thats all you have to choose from. Looks like they need 4 more loads delivered too - hope the bridges hold up :lol: . Fortunately we rarely go into pig squealin' land except for that monthly can load to Bethel and at least that's no problem length-wise.

Windwalker · Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 3003 Location: Holiday, FL

Okay. From now on, if the load doesn't pay $18,000 to the truck... Plus FSC, I don't go there. There can be a number of reasons why you can miss a sign. In winter, covered with snow... At night, street light placed so that you can not read the sign. Or turned so that you can not read what it says. Maybe taken down by an accident and not put up yet.

$18,000 to the truck, plus FSC or I don't take the load.

GMAN · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 9780 Location: Tennessee

I don't understand why these people would build a factory or warehouse where they know it will not legally be accessable to trucks. New England and the Northeast have some strange laws concerning big trucks. Some will not allow 53' trailers without permits past a certain point from interstate highways. If you cross one of those bridges that has a low weight limit, you could have some hefty fines and pay for repairs.

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