Weight Station Fees

[OccamsRazor]

In real life if you're overweight at a weigh station (Over 80k lbs) you get a small fine. States calculate the fine differently, but typically it's less than $50 if you're less than 3,000 lbs over. However I notice in ATS that if I'm overweight I don't get any fine, just get waived through.

[TwinShadow]

There are no logic or anything behind them at this time. Maybe they'll be expanded in the future, but the only fine from the stations is if you pass them when you're required to stop in.

[Willow Rivers]

The weight stations are just to simulate that aspect of trucking where you have to stopped to be checked. There are no fines though for weight if you are over.

[Outlaw Trucker]

Thank god we don't have to go inside and go through our log books as well.

[Soharuda]

Fined? I thought as long as you had the proper permits there was no fine. This is why they call it a permit.

[OccamsRazor]

There's no mechanism to go back to the shipper to tell them you're overweight, which is what you do in real life if you hit a truckstop scale and are overweight, which means currently if they instituted the fee there would be nothing you could do to prevent it, you just have to sit there and take it.

[OccamsRazor]

Originally posted by Soharuda:

Fined? I thought as long as you had the proper permits there was no fine. This is why they call it a permit.

The USDOT sets a maximum weight limit of 80,000 lbs on highways. Some states allow you to get permits to exceed that. If you exceed 80k lbs and don't have the proper permits you're charged a fine.

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

i don´t think there´s overweight anyway in ATS or ETS2... afaik all freights are within limits... correct me if i´m wrong, but i´ve never recognized overweight loads, heavy cargo aside.

and mods don´t count, why would SCS put in fees for things that are not in the game? :)

[THE_Maverick]

The company I work for had trucks pull out of the warehouse way beyond the legal (warehouse was told to fill the gaps in the trailer to stop wasting valuable space :shakes head: ) One finally got caught and they had to send a second truck and people to go hand off-load/reload the trailer before they would allow it to leave. Big fines and serious warnings involved. Not pretty.

[OccamsRazor]

Originally posted by THE_Maverick:

The company I work for had trucks pull out of the warehouse way beyond the legal (warehouse was told to fill the gaps in the trailer to stop wasting valuable space :shakes head: ) One finally got caught and they had to send a second truck and people to go hand off-load/reload the trailer before they would allow it to leave. Big fines and serious warnings involved. Not pretty.

Typically what happen when good idea fairies make decisions without involving the people the decisions effect.

[StoicBadger]

Originally posted by OccamsRazor:

Originally posted by Soharuda:

Fined? I thought as long as you had the proper permits there was no fine. This is why they call it a permit.

The USDOT sets a maximum weight limit of 80,000 lbs on highways. Some states allow you to get permits to exceed that. If you exceed 80k lbs and don't have the proper permits you're charged a fine.

Also, you cannot exceed axle weight limits. If you are going to haul overweight, you need to have the number of axles, and placement of them, to cover the weight. You can goole images of superloads to see what that looks like.

[Leo Valentino]

Originally posted by Volrider:

Also, you cannot exceed axle weight limits. If you are going to haul overweight, you need to have the number of axles, and placement of them, to cover the weight. You can goole images of superloads to see what that looks like.

I used to bi*^h and gripe about doing the CAT scale merry-go-round. Now that I can't do it anymore, I really miss sliding those tandems. Best part was always telling a young driver to get a bottle of diesel fuel to help free a stuck tandem slider and just watching their expression.

[Gizmosellsbunnys]

Wonder about tandems! How they work sure 80,000 limit would depend on trailer center of gravity

[Leo Valentino]

Trailer tandems predominantly adjust weight on the trailer tandem and cab tandems, to a lesser extent the steer axel as well. The sliding fifth wheel (if your truck is equipped with one) mainly adjusts your cab tandems and steer axel, and to a lesser extent the trailer tandems.

It does this by changing the distances between each axel "spreading" the load more evenly if you went in the right direction, or more unevenly if you slid them in the wrong direction.

Sometimes, if the tandems haven't been slid in a long time, the slider pins and rails get gunked up with rust/dirt and you can use water, diesel, or any low combustion liquid to help free them by "rocking" the slider, once wet, with the truck.

[Ornery]

Originally posted by Deranged Bunta:

Sometimes, if the tandems haven't been slid in a long time, the slider pins and rails get gunked up with rust/dirt and you can use water, diesel, or any low combustion liquid to help free them by "rocking" the slider, once wet, with the truck.

Saw a company driver at a truck stop in Crashville leaning on his grille, looking worried. Asked him what the problem was, he said he was having trouble sliding his tandems, could I help him? After a very quick inspection I asked him why they looked the way they did.
Well come to find out he had tried to slide the tandems forward at the shipper, but they were stuck... and he forgot to lock the lever after doing so...
Coming into Crashville he had to shut 'er down for an accident and the trailer brakes apparently caught first, because those rusty but unlocked tandems broke loose and collided into the Mansfield bar, hard. They were now about 6" further rearward than designed.. on the left side, and about 3-4" too far rearward on the right. And VERY jammed into place.

Needless to say, there was nothing this good ol' boy could do but shake his head and walk away.

[Leo Valentino]

lol! I laugh cause, to be honest, I've forgotten to put the pins back in place and while driving through the yard jumped on the binders and slid them too. Course I was only going 5mph and so no damage, but I remember it very well cause it scared the crap outta me :)