who's heard of a OD ltl load?

There are certain, very exceptional circumstances, where multiple oversized pieces are allowed, primarily when it comes to custom harvesting and transporting ag. machinery.

But, yes, as a general rule, only one oversize piece to a truck.

 

The first piece off had better be the OD piece

 

I had a buddy who made the mistake of calling on a OD piece (Decent paying,12 ft wide) that he would have room left on his truck for an LTL piece/pieces. Where he made the mistake is he said out loud that it would leave him room for something else and then they complained to him and said they now werent going to pay full price since he was going to add something. He called BS on them and then said good luck, hes not hauling it. they changed the price on the load board and the description to reflect an LTL piece even though its OD, very screwy and just a shame if someone takes it like that as they are a fool.

 

At 12 feet, you're getting into pilot car territory. 11 ft on the 2 lanes in the east. Imagine having to pay for a pilot car on an LTL.

 

I've ran an OD load as LTL before. It paid as a TL tho, but I had 25' left open and put some legal size stuff with it to deliver AFTER the OD load. But for that rate, no way!!!!!

I was offered an OD load from Phoenix today that was OD and claimed to be LTL. The agent that called me said it's ONLY 40' long and 9'8" wide, but the rate was $2.08 ALL IN. I promptly told him to not call me again as that was an insult.

 

I don't see why you couldn't throw a 10' W piece(s) on if you already have something wider.

You are allowed as many OD pieces as you can haul. As long as it can't be divided into a legal load. Just permit for the largest dimensions.

Not sure about multiple stops when the remaining pieces get smaller if permit must reflect that. I would imagine yes.

 

I was under the impression that the only time you had to haul something in as few pieces as possible was if it was overweight? If overwidth/overheight it didn't matter how many pieces as long as it wasn't multiple pieces in the same dimension that was making it OD? IE, there was a way to haul it without it being OD. Granted, I haven't done much OD, but when I did a paver out of Chambersburg they put a box on a pallet in the hopper. I called someone back at the Keen terminal (I was with Cressler Trucking at the time) and talked to him about it and he said it was perfectly legal since the only permit I required was an overwidth. Just had to make sure it was strapped down.

 

Seen two boom lifts today on ITS 80JLG when i called on it he said if i put the boom on the top deck it would only take up 27ft of my deck and was only 32,000lbs going up to PA 1,360 miles paying $1,800 LTL load what the hell could you put with it and i load mine backwards boom facing rear so i couldnt haul anything else with it didnt last 20 min it was gone brokers have lost there minds there just greedy

 

Yes, but who was the idiot hauling it?