Barely over 80k

Folks, maybe this is dumb to ask, I've not been put in this situation before. I'm going to keep the particulars nameless to protect the guilty.

OK, O/O here. I took on my normal live(load), won't say what it is or from where, doesn't matter. Just usually feels lighter. Paperwork made everything look legit. This time after loading I was curious (and MT on fuel) so I ran down to the nearest truck stop / scale.

I rolled in and ... yes, I ran across the scale first. 79,210 lbs. Bone dry on fuel. Somebody doing the paperwork fudged something or is just plain dumb. Gonna set somebody straight next time I load there, and show them my actual weights. Former engineer here, I haven't been driving for too very long. I didn't want to retire and sit around and do nothing. So I bought a truck some time back (after driver school) and just stood around and waited for some broker to say, "hey you!" So now I just roll around from time to time, bash into things and keep the commercial girlfriends employed and covid-infused. I know that D2 is about 6.8 lbs / gallon average depending on specific gravity, blah blah blah.

So I took on 115 gallons of fuel. Ran across the scale again, now I'm at 80,015 lbs. I'm carrying only about half the fuel I can. Course that is a PITA, but my truck runs in the low 8's usually (since I'm in no hurry) so I'm good for a day and a half or so, I'll live having to make an extra stop before I deliver.

I'm not too worried about getting pinched before I can burn off 15+ lbs of fuel. But if we were to ever roll through a weigh station at 80,015 lbs, would they be going to go apesheeeit? Any way to explain our way out of such (hey uh, 18 miles down the road and I'm going to be 79,999 lbs, or I could idle here about 3 hours and run a couple regens... ). Or should I be prepared for an award?


7milesout

 

Good advice.

In this case, it doesn't really matter. How to say ... they're sort of winging it about how much weight they're loading on. They're not a horrible place though. If it was way yonder too much, say I was at 82k lbs, I'd just take it back to their dock and have em pull some out. Hasn't happened yet.

When I say it doesn't matter, if I had fueled (full) before hand, I would have wound up at like 700 lbs over I suppose. They wouldn't know if I was full of fuel or not, they would have loaded what they loaded either way.