Profile For Phillip C.

But this kind of situation is why veteran drivers kinda smile when new drivers say, "I'm going to run 100% legal no matter what." It's a noble intention, but unfortunately it isn't realistic. Once Daniel was loaded at the shipper he had to drive to a truck stop to weigh it. He had no way of knowing he was illegal on his axle weights until he could get to the truck stop to weigh it. If he would have been pulled over and weighed he would have gotten a ticket for being overweight. That's one of the classic "gray areas" where drivers run illegally and everyone knows it but there is no solution to the problem. Until you can get to a scale there's no way to know if your weight is legal or not.

This perfectly states my experiences over the last 8 years as well. Driving for a heavy-haul company we don't deal with tandems on trailers as most of ours are three + drop or fixed four axles. But we deal with axle group and bridge weights everyday. 40 lbs on an axle group is nothing when you're gross is over 103,000 lbs and your four-axle group can have 51,000 lbs.