Re: Commercial driver license in NC

Posted by NC Wayne on May 31, 2006 at 20:47:41 from (152.163.100.74):

In Reply to: Commercial driver license in NC posted by jarrod britt on May 31, 2006 at 17:12:09:

Hey Jarrod, I live up toward Concord and drive an FL106 Freightliner mechanics field service truck. It's a 33,000 GVWR that has been "derated" and has 26,000 GVW sticker on the door, with the actual axle weights also listed (22,500# rear and 12,500# front, and it's tagged for 38,000#. Unloaded it weighs around 25,000, but with all my tools, etc then I'm around 28-30,000#. I drive it with nothing but a class C license and have never had a problem. If your in the Charlotte area the best thing to do is call the weigh station on I-85 North, (down near Gastonia) and ask for Sgt Hinson. He is or not too long ago was still the DMV Safety Officer. I talked to him several years ago before we put my truck on the road. You can call and ask him any question you like but to sum up what he told me---The tagged weight means nothing when it comes to wether you need a CDL or not. It only comes into play if your carrying more than the weight you've paid the state for the privledge of being able to carry so they know how much to write the ticket for.--- The total axle weights mean nothing wether they total more than 26,000 or not.--- If the vehicle has a GVWR on the sticker of 26000# or less then you don't have to have CDL. If the GVWR is over 26,001# then you have to have a CDL. If there is no sticker then they'll weigh the truck, over 26,001 you need one, under you don't. In his words as long as there is a sticker on that vehicle, something more official than 'a note from your Momma' stating the GVWR of that vehicle your covered. To any skeptics I go through the weigh stations all the time and have only been stopped once and then it was my fault. I knew I was probably heavy and should have gone up Wilkenson Blvd instead of 85 but I figured late on the Friday before Labor Day the scales would have been closed so I took a chance and I got suprised....Anyway I brought a pallet load of parts home and had let the guy load me with a forklift so all the weight was to the rear. I got "pulled" when I went across the scales for being over the NC limit (on my rear) of 20,000# per axle by a little over 2,200#. It cost me (the company) $138 for the ticket but it was worth that not to have to move everything to the front. I spent nearly an hour standing around talking to the guys at the station and learned alot. Things like they allow you an extra 10% per axel on the backroads but if they stop you and your overweight more than that extra 10% then the ticket is written based on the "standard" weight of 20,000#. This, they said, is to keep the heavier vehicles off the interstate. In other words they'd rather have you overweight on a side road tearing them up instead of the interstate. Basically there is no such thing as "bypassing a scale" if your legal your legal, if not then your not, no matter what road your driving on.
For what it's worth I've been across just about ever scale West of I95 and have never had a problem. There again it all comes down to wether the man that pulls you want's to be an a--hole or not.....Just my .02 of experience for what it's worth

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• Re: Commercial driver license in NC john in la 23:46:23 05/31/06 (1)
  • Re: Commercial driver license in NC NC Wayne 19:04:55 06/01/06 (0)

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