question for the food service guys

Over weight is company ticket not yours. They'll pay it. But we ran 48s and a sleeper and I've gotten a dozen weight tickets. Some days your heavy some your not. My back haul is where I usually got majority of my tickets. Full load of chicken for Popeyes and kfc

 

On a good day about 30k in the box

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Full to the very back. Darn near every load. We almost always gross out long before we cube out (but not always). They have the weights of everything and they know what the load weighs (or supposed to) and they generally know which tractors adn which trailers. (a million different trailers, some much heavier than others).

we use liftgate trailers with two or three zones and they are heavy, I've found empty, with a 48" midroof sleeper (stripped) we generally weigh about 40,000 and they usually load us up to 38,500. (plus the pallet jack which is another 750lbs). I've gone out as heavy as 42,500 with the first stop being a local which then gets you down.

But yeah, all the way to the back. 1300 to 1500 cases. I've even had loads where i"ve had to put boxes (dry/chems) in the cab of the truck to fit my two wheelers in (or put a two wheeler in the passenger seat).

CAT scales are $12 I think. We get reimbursed if we need to use one. (picking up a backhaul or whatever). Sometimes I"ll run to Utah and Colorado and Wyoming are 36k on the tandems, but Utah is only 34 and I'll check in Evanston. I used to be really picky about the tandems but generally now I only have two settings unless I"m over 36k. all the way up (in town) and all the way back (on the road)

 

i've actually gone in once to get a load and stop 1 dry and cooler wasn't on the trailer. Freezer was and there simply wasn't room. (of course they didn't tell anyone). had to grab a warehouse guy to drive a straight truck with those 3 pallets and meet me at the first stop.

 

We are all over the place at GFS. Tuesday my first stop of the day was 10,000lbs. That was stop one. 460 cases I think my total weight for that entire day was 21,000lbs. We had a guy go out on Tuesday with 1,000 cases in his 28' trailer (we really only use 28' at GFS in the broad line division) I had 892 cases on Tuesday. Now what's funny is my first stop Tuesday was 10,000lbs, but my entire route today the entire route the whole total weight was only 12,000 lbs.

However see broadline is probably different then chains we can swing either way. Chains are probably pretty consistent across the board, now don't get me wrong were usually heavier then lighter, but what ends up happening is, because GFS does a lot of doubles if they can't eliminate 2 trailers off a route then someone ends up with an 11,000lbs day because it costs the same to pull 2 trailers as it does one, for the most part. Now granted there are minimum as far as money goes they won't send a truck with 300 cases out someones route at that point would need to be cut.

What ends up happening is you have some guys getting creamed and other guys who have real easy days.