How To Beat An Overweight Ticket

About 2 weeks ago I got an overweight ticket along with about 10 other drivers. We were hauling sand out of a pit about 30 miles away and had to travel 4 miles of blacktop to get to the pit. Everything else was main highways. Well the road we were on was a 73280 route and I had on 79500 so I got a 6200lb overweight ticket of around $1200. Everyone else was most the same overweight also. They didnt actualy run u.s. over the portables on the route nosotros were illegal on, but a few miles down the road on the chief highway. The court date is comming upwards in a few weeks and is there any use trying to fight information technology? There are probably 100+ trucks that run out of this pit everyday, and everyone of them have been, and nonetheless are running 80K. I have still been running 80K, simply have been taking pit roads a different direction dorsum to a main highway which is about 5miles out of the way and all gravel roads. What do you guys retrieve about fighting the ticket? What almost taking a risk running on the blacktop route again?
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If the route has a posted weight limit and in that location is a viable alternating route... you are out of luck. If the route is not posted and not restricted to truck traffic and then y'all take a run a risk.
Good Luck your not getting out of that ane, Thats why they accept weight rules, Follow them or get caught....if 1st offense you might go it waived
Talk to the company. Maybe they will stand up and donate some materials for road repair. But other than that I don't think y'all take much of a chance. Y'all knew exactly what the limits were on that road and y'all took a run a risk just like all the other driver did. I would have been there correct next to you with my ticket. What does the company say? I believe they play a part in this too.
I in one case tried to explain the stupidity of the Federal Span Formula to a guess, because one time I got popped with a 30' dump trailer, which cut the max gross back to around 72k.
That judge was not the slightest fleck interested in what I had to say. Suffice it to say that you are in the same boat.
no getting out of this unless someone is only feeling dainty.
BobC Medium Load Member

I could be incorrect on this so don't take information technology for gospel.
Something makes me call back the overweight ticket goes to the possessor of the truck, not the driver. It's either like that or the ticket doesn't count every bit a moving violation.

I shouldn't fifty-fifty be mentioning this considering I'm non sure of my facts here. I but brought information technology upwards to alert you that there might exist a manner out only you'll need to research the rules better.
I am an owner operator so it's my ticket. I can't believe that the mine company dont have something worked out with the township to allow trucks to leave the pit with 80K. Is it the townships/countys decision on the weight limit of the road, or the states decision? The roads around hither are not actualy posted with signs. I thought I heard ane fourth dimension most having a couple miles absorber on a non-desginated road to be able to go far/out of a identify like this.
Information technology volition not be up to the state because in is a county rd or local rd
Some states write them out to the company, similar PA. Others write them to the driver. And no, they are non moving violations that go on your record, only potentially hefty fines is all.