Posted by ss55 on October 31, 2017 at 12:11:09 from (63.147.218.40):
In Reply to: Re: A little heavy posted by The tractor vet on October 31, 2017 at 10:28:32:
Most farm tags are licensed at 80,000 pounds maximum and farmers are often given a grace to 90,000 pounds. With a 30,000 pound truck and trailer that leaves a 50,000 pound legal load and another 10,000 pounds or 20 percent overload in the grace. That seems very reasonable to me and it should be easy law to abide.
At 144,000 pounds the load on the truck was 2 1/4 times the legal load or 125 percent overload. In any other legitimate business except farming the operator would have been given a shovel and been told to scoop off the overload by hand as a lesson to count how many combine dumps to put on the truck.
Reading between the lines it sounds like the boss instructed the operator to either stop when the truck was loaded or move to another truck. The operator did neither and the boss laughed it off. If the operator had driven the combine's unloading auger into a tree or power pole after being warned not to, instead of over-filling the truck after being warned not to, I doubt the boss would have laughed it off so easily.
As a tax payer, it's hard for me to understand why we should give tax breaks to blatant scofflaws.
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