its time the dot make the shippers have scales on their properties

Great intentions, but unrealistic expectations when they pay us to scale the load and return the load(s) back to the shipper to take pallets off.

Part of of the job

 

Why do drivers only want the government to step in when it benefits them?

 

This is an argument that we have been making for years...unfortunately shippers are not held responsible for overloads so we have to run to a scale and check the weight and return if it is not right. PIA but it's the way it has always been.

 

The have scale pay?
Totally unrealistic nor practical.

 

Plus, how are we gonna finance keeping that many scales properly calibrated so they show the proper weight? We can barely keep the scales we have now properly calibrated!

 

sit at fort collins bud plant see how well that works
on a monday you can spend all day weighing empty load then weigh again to leave

 

You know, this might be 'the way it's always been', but I thought this forum was designed so things can change. If shipping companies/trucking companies were held accountable for return shipments due to improper loading....let's say, being charged an additional $500 (and at least $200 of that going to the trucker for his TIME and inconvenience!), then this crap would stop.

Many people come on here with suggestions on how to fix things in the industry, but when someone has a valid complaint, such as this topic, then you are told to suck it up, that's the way it's always been. That is NOT how it SHOULD be and we all know it.

No trucker should have to pick up a load and worry about it being overweight, improperly loaded for the trailer it's in, improperly secured or any other host of issues that could arise. IF it's a flat load that the shipper secures, then the shipper should be responsible if the truck driver has to redo it because it was done improperly.

Now, go ahead and bust my balls, but all of you know I'm correct. All of you know that a trucker should NOT have to deal with these issues and that if he does, he (she?) just lost time on the road...which you can NOT charge for...but you should be able to recover some monetary amount...and THAT is the name of the game.

No truckers I know are doing this for free 'just because they like it'. Trucking is a profession, yes. However, there is something to be said for fair compensation for the person (the trucker) who time is wasted and isn't making money because some shipper %^&ed up the load in way or another where it has to be taken back and redone.

 

What about when you get a load from another driver ( this happened to me by the way) and he hands you a scale ticket saying 80,800 from the bud plant.......the driver walks away as if he did nothing wrong

then you talk to dispatch " oh don't worry about it! Only 800 lbs!!" Me: there are 2 scales in Ct on the way to the final and you don't want me to worry about it?