|
|
06-23-2008, 05:11 PM
|
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: south carolina
Posts: 151
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
$17000.00 ticket wtf
__________________
�He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.�
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
|
06-23-2008, 08:38 PM
|
Board Icon
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Orange, VA
Posts: 5,684
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
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..... :roll:
|
06-23-2008, 09:00 PM
|
Board Icon
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: the 19th hole / NC
Posts: 9,647
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
Quote:
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!) :roll:
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! :roll:
This is ABSOLUTELY a form of "tort!" And didn't we pass some form of Tort Reform law? :shock:
__________________
Remember... friends are few and far between.
TRUCKIN' AIN'T FOR WUSSES!!!
"I am willing to admit that I was wrong." The Rev.
|
06-23-2008, 10:22 PM
|
Senior Board Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Macedon Center,NY
Posts: 1,025
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
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. :?
|
06-23-2008, 10:30 PM
|
Senior Board Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,792
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by 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. :?
|
Very good point TK. I bet the "local's" don't look at the friendlies that way though.
__________________
Space...............Is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence! :thumbsup: Star Trek2009
|
06-23-2008, 11:38 PM
|
Senior Board Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: East Central IL between the corn and the beans
Posts: 4,977
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
Never have seen a road or bridge with a posted 3000 lb weight limit.
__________________
Finding the right trucking company is like finding the right person to marry. I really comes down to finding one whose BS you can put up with and who can put up wih yours.
|
06-24-2008, 12:02 AM
|
Senior Board Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Maryland
Posts: 731
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Uturn2001
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 :lol: 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 :cry:
__________________
Paranoia is nothing more than the pathological habit of paying close attention.
All ideas in this communication are sole property of the voices in my head. (C) 2006, "The Voices" (TM)
|
06-24-2008, 04:04 AM
|
Rookie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 21
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by golfhobo
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.
|
06-24-2008, 09:42 AM
|
Board Icon
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Orange, VA
Posts: 5,684
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
|
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.
|
06-24-2008, 02:14 PM
|
Board Icon
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Been there and gone...
Posts: 6,412
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
|
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!!!
__________________
( R E T I R E D , and glad of it)
YES ! ! ! There is life after trucking.
a GOOD life
|
|
|
|
|