Weight on bill says different than scale

Yeah my company has scales on most trailers. With your drive air gauge I can get it spot on.

 

Ur truck,ur problem

 

That would only PARTIALLY work, in theory. Maybe.

How many shippers load flatbeds with a guess as to the weight of the load. For instance. Material and equipment out in the fields. With no scales. IF they even bother writing down the weights.

 

But the shipper had a weight on the BOL, that would make a difference than not having a weight on the BOL.
Most my loads "out in the field" are fairly accurate. Closer than the lumber loads at the warehouse. It seems they always weight more than what is stated on the BOL. I only do a hand full of lumber loads a year and I try real hard not to do that many.

 

Last week I found out my truck&wagon weigh right at 57k my......loaded 33k(on bills)....felt a lil stout.....nicely said my air gauges think yalls weights off just a tad.....no way I'm told....k I'll go scale Mr Shipping Mgr extroidinare..
Yellow ticket please.....and the cat said 89.7k,....he asks ifn.....I'm wantin some off....up to you.....why will you take it....no.....but if you won't take it off....I'll jus run couple 10k straps round back 4 pallets.....and ratchet em to that fancy Chevy hi country over there&pull up....then u can deal w/mess and I'll change the piece count on the bills....no charge.......

 

As a rule I don't fully trust what any shipper puts on the bills for weight, a lot of them these days can't be bothered to include the pallet weight in the gross. The first thing I do after I get loaded is head to the nearest cat scale or someplace similar to weigh it.

 

Yeah, I can tell right away if there is an issue with the air scale on my truck. If it is questionable, I do an actual scale as soon as possible, if nothing else than to actually get things axled right.

 

Hmmm.....Chambersburg Pa--to TA Greencastle Pa--about 12 miles south down 81---