Trucker Ken Green, hauling a transformer from Kansas to Canada, recently received a massive ticket while traveling on his planned route.
The Texas based trucking company which he works for acquired several permits for the truck to travel on local roads and avoid low overpasses, but when he got stranded on a country road in Mt. Vernon, Washington, patrolmen discovered that the route he took consisted of roads that he did not have valid permits for.
In addition, in order to get to the roundabout where his rig broke down he crossed the Fir Island bridge. With a weight limit of 100,000 pounds, he surpassed that by more than double, hauling over 230,000 pounds. Engineers were surprised the bridge didn’t collapse under the weight.
After one glance at the route that Green took, Patrolman started issuing tickets right away. Over $40,000 worth of ’em.
The tickets were written in the driver’s name, not in the name of the company he was working for.
When KIRO TV asked him his thoughts, he responded with a smile.
“Well, I just thank God I’m not in the water!” Ken Green told KIRO TV.
Although the the tickets were issued to the driver of this rig, he was traveling on a planned route given to him by his dispatcher. So who do you think should be blamed — the truck driver or the company he worked for?
