They say there are no stupid questions, but I think I may have stumbled onto a couple.
If you pick up a load that needs to be scaled in a city with a truck stop that has a CAT scale, and you expect it will take about 15-20 minutes from the time you exit the freeway until you are back on the freeway to use that scale, and you know there is a much quicker CAT scale in a small town 80 miles away that only takes about half as much time freeway to freeway, should you drive to the small town to scale?
Note: if you do drive to the small town, you must also pass by several other CAT scales on the way, each of which takes roughly the same amount of time as the city scale.
Re the load in question, it turns out the shipper loaded 27,000 lbs. onto the drive axles and 34,500 lbs. onto the trailer axles, and you have no further legal tandem slide available.
Here's the kicker:
It turns out you've been to this shipper many, many times before. So many times, in fact, that you are well aware that "they always load this way---that's just how they load---they've always done it that way."
Under these circumstances, how wise is it for you to drive those 80 miles before scaling that load?
Just doing a reality check here. When the driver wouldn't admit to having done anything wrong, saying "where I scale is my business---you can't tell me where to scale," I felt like I was talking to a child.
Actually, as soon as I'm dispatched on that mess you dropped at our yard for some other driver to take into CA (the loading driver didn't have to worry about the 40-foot bridge rule), things like where you scaled the load, whether you returned to the shipper, etc. suddenly are my business!
load-scaling reality check
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by mathematrucker, Jan 16, 2018.
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