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$235 Ticket, Hill County

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Hereford76

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If I ever have something to market at auction I usually go 100 miles east to Bear Paw Livestock Comm. Co in chinook. To get there I have to drive through Havre and right by a scale. I have drove by it ever since I was old enough to drive with cattle going to Bear Paw. Last week I got pulled over going up the hill into havre by the DOT guy and received a $235 ticket for not going over the scale with my one ton ford and 28 ft gooseneck... never been warned, never knew I had to and according to everyone else I have talked to they never knew the law either. I guess according to MT if you are over 14,000 you have to go over the scales and it is my duty as a licensed driver to know it. I am over that empty and I can't possibly overload my outfit so I guess I don't see the point.

how is it in other states?

nice little spring storm here the last few days!
 
It's been that way for a long time. New scale man looking for something to do? I don't have any scales I go by very often but when I do I pull in and usually get green lighted on through. I know guys that had to pay additional GVW fees to raise theirs to match their actual weight. If you cross state lines and weigh over 10,000 lbs they get you for not having a medical card.
 
There is an old philosophical question........

What would you rather have, a brother who is a weigh scale attendant or a sister that works in a whorehouse?
 
i wonder if anyone on hear knows the guy at havre - to me he seems a little light in the loafers. while i was sitting there steaming he started sneezing while he was writing out the ticket and that is when it really reared its head... and it was a triple sneezer, I have never heard a man sneeze like that before... it was the wierdest most gay sneeze i have ever heard.

that is the first time in my life I have been ticketed, other than a speeding warning (which is another story), in my entire driving career.

...the speeding warning - i bought a 1971 ss chevelle when i was 13 and when i got my license on one of my first times to town with it i got busted blowing the doors off an unmarked highway patrolman at 143 mph. i passed him from behind going so fast i didn't have time to realize who i was passing. needless to say, but that car looks much cooler at 55mph nowadays
 
I don't every go by any scale on the roads I go down. But I think here in Texas if you have a Farm Truck you don't have to be weight. Dose anyone else from Texas know if that is right? If it not these old boys with 28-32 foot trailers loaded with cattle being pulled with 3/4 ton trucks will be in pretty bad shape. :wink:
 
Expect more and more of these types of situations. The states/counties are starved for money. The property tax base should be going way down and they will be looking to raise money any way possible.
 
Thanks Bullhauler.

Commercial motor vehicle means any self-propelled or towed motor vehicle used on a highway in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property when the vehicle—
1) Has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight, of 4,536 kg (10,001 pounds) or more, whichever is greater; or

Farm vehicle driver means a person who drives only a commercial motor vehicle that is—
(e) Being used within 150 air-miles of the farmer's farm.
 

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