State v. Meadows

CARTER, Justice.

The State of Iowa was granted discretionary review of an interlocutory ruling absolving a trucker of criminal charges for transporting an overweight load. Although the trucker had an overweight permit from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) authorizing him to transport the weight he was carrying, the permit designated a route other than the one on which he was traveling when he was stopped at a DOT weigh station.

The district court ruled that the trucker was guilty of violating his permit in a manner other than weight and was not guilty of the more serious offense of…