Overweight Trucks

The Department of Public Safety correctly assessed a fine against a truck operator for exceeding the 80,000-pound limit for state roads while transporting a trailer with woodchips. Although woodchips are... Read More

In affirming the issuance of a citation to a trucking company, the Court determined that the company failed to provide sufficient evidence to rebut the Department of Public Safety’s showing... Read More

The Court reversed the Department of Public Safety’s decision to issue a citation to a trucking company for driving an overweight vehicle on public roads.  The Court concluded the truck... Read More

The owner of a timber hauling company who caused an overweight vehicle and load to be operated on a county-maintained road was not subject to a fine because the vehicle... Read More

The Department of Public Safety failed to demonstrate that the weight of a tractor-trailer’s axles exceeded permitted limits because the static scale used to measure the axle weights had not... Read More

The Department of Public Safety correctly assessed a fine against a transport company where its vehicle exceeded the single-axle limit by over a thousand pounds. Because Petitioner’s driver was operating... Read More

The Department of Public Safety properly fined Petitioners, a trucking company and its driver.  Petitioners were operating a trailer with axles’ lengths shorter by a half a foot than their... Read More