Winter fuel weighs 7.206 lbs per gallon. Use 153 gallons.... Problem solved.

Hey Rev. I ran a search for the exemption on google and found what i posted here
http://truckingsafety.org/new/PART%20658%20rev07.htm

from truckingsafety.org its about halfway down 12 n I found the same thing on a couple of different sites.

Thank you.

I find it interesting that the regulation that this points to, 658.17, is different on the FMCSA website. It doesn't say anything about the APU exemption. From what I can remember, I thought that the FMCSA made it voluntary for states to allow the exemption, and some states were opting out of it.

I have been ticketed for overgross many times in 25 years and was always allowed to continue on my merry little way without losing any weight.

Quite interesting. Every time I've been overweight, I've been put OOS until I could get it legal. Same goes for tandem weights.

I guess you must call the US Marshalls in, whereas I made myself legal.

If it really were only $25 per 1000 lbs, it would almost be an incentive to run overweight, because I would imagine that extra weight would pay more than $25. :roll:

Well, I'm not going to argue with you Solo, but we move ~400 outbound loads a year through that state. So we've crossed a scale or two.

Yup, I'm all set now and won't reach another scale for a while and when I do they either won't care about the extra weight or I'll get the green light. I was never over axle weight, just gross. I had them stack the load 5' from the rear and 8' from the front.

What my friend did was check with the other states on the regulations regarding over weight and the ones I'm passing through are all $25 per 1,000 pounds and NO out of service. New Jersey is one that does put you out of service. These states also allow the 400 extra weight on either the axle or gross with an APU installed.

No big deal, at least to me.

My Rismaster kept coming on last night like every 1/2 hour and when I woke up I realized why. My truck is all iced up and it's freaking freezing outside. The truck is about 75 degrees inside and no plans to to get out, that's for sure!

Lets see, it's 2:00am here but actually 1:00am for this time zone then I'll loose another hour getting to Colorado so everyone should still be asleep and I can just sneak right in!!

Boy I'LL tell ya Steve that plywood must be paying better than it used to ??? Years ago when I did that it was so cheap !!!! But that 1 is going to Denver so maybe that helped it. It allways seemed like freight going to places with no freight paid better ???? I hardly ever got anything worth anything out of that Denver area. Most of the time I would bounce all the way to Kan City or Salt Lake !!! Your truck must tolerate the cold better than mine ?? My old Pete if it would have been off all night and would have been all iced up would have taken awhile to get it ready to truck in that weather ??? I could do your routine in the summer and warm weather but not in the cold I don't think ??? Hope you n everyone back there is doing well and stay off of the slick stuff !!! My ol Pete is in Atlanta now getting the motor done. Hope this economy picks up so I can come home soon ..

I think they were desperate to get this load moved. It's finish grade hardwood plywood so it's the expensive stuff. I've always had good luck getting out of the Denver area and it always seemed to be a last minute thing where I had to move quick.

My truck does good in the cold but then again, I have nothing else to compare it too. The Rigmaster heats the engine block so when I start it up it starts in 1 second and runs real good. No strange noises or anything.

When are you coming home? I have these nightmare where someone knocks on my door and I look out the window and there is a bald green guy and some other guy wearing a blue mask standing there. Scary!

You are exactly right, my company and many others knew the states that charged a flat fee for overgross, no matter how much, and would over-load accordingly. The scalemasters in Georgia would weigh you, call you in and say, "yep, many companies realize it'd cheaper to pay the 50.00 fine than load legal and tell a customer his shipment would have to wait." They wrote the 50.00 ticket and sent you on your way, usually in 10 minutes or less.

For tandem weights, I have been offered the chance to move weight if I could do it by hand, but usually for some reason they would not allow you to slide tandems/fifth wheel to achieve the same thing. Again, ticketed when warranted but never OOS in 25 years for weight violation.

I've never met a US Marshall that I know of, and making myself legal would have involved dumping food product on the ground at the scale house.