troubledwaters wrote:
So you're comparing a 30 wheel, 120,000 lbs, wide loaded truck to an RV and you think standing before the judge is going to work out the same way for an RV. smh. (You do remember this forum is about RV's don't you?)
What I am stating is it is the driver that must judge for himself how fast to drive. Now the judge will be more likely to decide a RV or driver is unsafe to be on the road, or trust officer's knowledge.
valhalla360 wrote:
JRscooby wrote:
What really happened? I told the judge that I was driving slow, between 15 and 40, so I could, in communication with my escort, keep all 30 of my wheels away from the edges of pavement, on curves. At over 100 ft long, I often needed the oncoming lane on the curves. 3 bridges in the section of road where posted 30 ton 15MPH. The high temps had the pavement soft, lower speeds make less side pressure, road damage. When Barney put on the beacon, I made sure he could see past my 12 ft wide, moved to the right so a couple of feet of load over the side of road, and stopped. Yes your honor, I refused to pull off the pavement. I was not sure that my 120,000 lbs would not cause damage, and suspect that the dirt shoulder, that was only a few feet wide, would hold to where I could drive off. I had all the permits to show the judge, but the LEO was not smart enough to ask for them.
Like I say, it is up to the driver to determine how fast to drive, up to the max legal speed.
If we get to wildly change the scenario, you were driving an oversize load without a permit...that would have required a police escort, so now it's a 5 figure ticket.
When I first started hauling for hire, and paid by pound, a old man told me "Put on what you want to haul, but if you want to go fat don't ever put on more than you can step with."
Hard to hide a load over dimension, always get the permit. For weight, if had not been legal, I would of not worried as much about pavement damage, likely any load I would gamble with I would go fast enough not to attract attention
Over a lifetime I would bet 80% of loads I hauled where over legal gross. And I got way with it at least 99% of the time. The biggest overload that I had to pay fine on was 29,000 lbs.
