Day by day adventures of a new solo OTR driver

I wouldn't worry about it. You apologized and even bought him lunch. I have NEVER had someone do that for me. When I used to do a turn an burn with a Truck that was bringing milk from Montana, that jackwagon NEVER scaled it out. He knew when the one scale that He would have to go through closed. I would meet him in Pocatello and then He would just sneer and go ,"OOPS! I forgot to scale it again" and laugh. Then I would have to deal with messing with the axles and climbing in the trailer and moving freight. One of the worst jobs I ever had. Which sucked because it had the potential to be a great job, if that makes any sense.

 

When I was with Schneider 100% of the relays I picked up were never scaled. After the 10th unscaled relay they put on me I refused it. I informed my DBL that its not worth my time to mess with them. She agreed.

 

Oh my God shut up you hypocrite, like you have never screwed over another driver. He was almost out of time, good enough for me. Had Schneider had a scale at the.OC I am sure he would have scaled it, it wasn't the job it was the B.S. e-logs.

What else you gonna cry about. If I knew I could get that reaction out of you I wouldn't scale anything just to watch you complain. Be cool and everything will be cool. Freak out and throw a fit and most people will just want to make you do it again for the entertainment of it.

Can't believe some other driver got on him for what he did, what a joke.

Right listen to this, according to this guy, diesel should have changed his work assignment and been 34 hours late to Gary.

 

JoeyJunk,

Your being silly. Man up and apologize.

 

Had another thought - say Disel had gone to the Pilot, scaled the load, and then ran out of hours. Now that trailer wouldn't get to the OC for an additional 10.5 hours. If I were picking up the load I would have to call into Ops to figure out where my load is (even more fun if it's after hours), drive to the Pilot, wake Disel up and grab the load. Which I would then HAVE TO SCALE ANYWAYS. If the load needed to be reworked I would have to do it anyways. In the grand scheme one driver will has the potential to be slightly inconvienced but not really screwed.

Yesterday i picked up a relay out of Gary and the driver scaled it, left the ticket and it showed I was legal. The load was 43K so I ran down the street and weighed - low and behold I was 180 over on the drives. I know I have a heavier tractor (full sizsed Casscadia), I know my fuel level is differnt than the driver who dropped the load. I will scale any load over 38K at a TS scale - even if I have a scale ticket from the last driver, or picked up at a customer with a scale, etc.

 

U more then the right thing D. Here's a good one for ya, I picked up a load of water in Pennsylvania in my Fat Princess(Cascadia) going to Ma. Routed through Jersey, NY and on. So here's the rest of the story, goin through the north east, I'm running short on my 14 due to a live load that was supposed to be a pre load, so I look a my lil book, see a pilot close enough I can make,then its foot to the floor,lol,with supposedly 44000 pounds, quick math in my head, 44k load,plus 14k trailer plus 20k truck = 78000lbs. no biggie, I should be safe. Find a spot to park for my 10,whew,get up when its still dark, crap scale is down, look at my lil book, Mahwah Jersey next up, gonna fuel there anyway,no prob. Lil book says, MW, med.sized w/ a scale, cool,down the road I go. Get there,fuel up,pull forward,:smt102no scale here, uh-oh,lookin at my routing,notta, so out comes the big mapbook, eyeball how to get to Massachusetts, Newburgh on I84, little outta route but I'll eat that. So over the cat scale I go....80520 gross150 miles from the shipper, 200 to the drop, in goes the overweight mac. Response,please call us at......, so I call, she wants to know if I can slide tandems and 5th, I say stop right there, I'm over gross....silence....oh, ok, are there any dot scales you have to go over to get to your drop...."REALLY?" I'm over gross,its illegal,period. Response is "you'll have to call dispatch,they can take care of it", thinking to myself, why did I bother contacting you then, so, looking at the time, gonna get support shift,oh well, call up, tell him whats going on, he says "how am I supposed to deal with this, you shouldn't have gotten so far away from your pick up......"dude, u ever been to the north east, notta lotta options"but tryin to keep my cool, I offer up some help"maybe get someone with a lighter tractor or even a day cab outta Jersey", he says, "We'll get back to ya"....so here I sit, and my pre-assign gettin me outta this side of the good ol' USA just got withdrawn

 

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I drive a lighter truck and just because I scale a relay legal does not mean it is legal for someone who drives another truck. If you pick up a relay, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure you are legal and just because a scale ticket says someone else is, it does not mean you will be. CAT only guarantees the weight for the truck that scaled the trailer so a wscale ticket is only a guideline and won't CYA if you end up being over.