Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

Yeah, the letter said we'd be switched over if we asked. I'm going to get started on it on Monday. We'll see how it goes. There's 3 of us ICs on this account who are pretty tight, we were all friends before we became drivers here. We'll be able to compare notes and help one another along.

 

I know ic's who live out West and generally park in Dallas or any Midwest oc and fly home..it's cheaper to do that when you need to.

 

Lots of non-pumpkin trucks doing the JCP loads around here. Too bad for those guys...

 

Random question. Owner operaror in indiana picks up a container load going to chicago. He sees the bills say it's 79,xxx. He calls dispatch and they tell him to scale it. He scales it and it's
10800
35900
I don't remember the trailer.
Its under 80k at 79k and change but he's almost 2k over on the drives.

He tells dispatch and they tell him, there are no scales that he is going to hit and to run it. He does.
Load gets on a train and goes to LA where it is picked up by driver B in another truck.
This truck is pulled into the scale and is promptly shutdown, and is now over gross and over on the drives as apparently driver B had a heavier truck and didn't scale it when he left the rail yard.

Driver A gets a $2600 charge On his settlement for the load being illegal.

Hes fighting it because he says it's not his responsibility that the load got busted and he was told to haul it and ,yes, it was over on the drives, but it was under gross when he hauled it.

What say you?

I said the load was illegal to begin with and if He had had it fixed, or returned it, it wouldn't have been an issue on his side. Should he be blamed driver B, no. For the load being illegal when it already got there, yes.

He says that because he was told to haul and it was under gross, and it was the other driver then he shouldn't be liable for anything. I say that if he had covered his rear by not hauling a load illegally and not using the "well dispatch told me to" excuse, the, he would have zero to worry about.

An I missing something?

 

If the driver did the responsible thing in the first place none of this would have happened.
Dispatch told me to is like my GPS told me to lol. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

 

Are u the driver B? Cause this sounds familiar lol

Driver A fault for sure. How can driver B fix it on cali with their bridge law. Schneider intermodal told us that anything going to cali has to be legal here (chicago) before shipping it.

I had overweight coming from cali but I can adjust it here

 

No, this was in another thread that I just lost my temper in. Driver A couldn't slide the 5th wheel, because his 'wasn't hooked up' and I have never hauled containers so I don't know if the rear axles can slide..
I've picked up a lot of overweight relays more often than I picked up legal ones, but I always catch them, because I always scale the load of the weight is over 25k(depending on shipper) or if it feels like it's pulling funny.

I just lost my cool when these idiots advocate running illegal because the *insert scapegoat here* told them to or how I must not have been driving long or else I'd know that you have to run illegal to make money or whatever lane ### excuse they come up with.

What's funny is that people like than will run their butts off, haul illegal, run illegal, cheat o, their logs and they dont even make the money that I see posted here, by a mega carrier with elogs.

I have an entire book to post, but it will get me banned. Its crap like that that drove me out of trucking.

 

Depending on the chassis but 53 can slide tandem, usually 40 cant. But I hear yall, drivers who don't care about the other driver and leave overweight or damage equipment because it's no longer their problem.

Being an o/o he should of understand how it work. I remember sitting in docks getting rework during my hometime because I didn't want the next driver in cali to get scaled.

 

I shouldn't have have checked, but I did. Now apparently the fact that he could have made it legal if his 5th wheel had worked, makes it ok and back to the Dispatch told me or be fired. He has some screens shots of the texts he got, but then he posts a picture of the car scale ticket showing he was overweight.

I need to ride my motorcycle and forget that I got involved in that convo.

Have a great weekend, gents!
Make me wish I had tried choice before I left. I would have enjoyed running with a few of you.