Would you haul this?

me personally i would run it . the ticket for over axle is not going to be that much if you do get it and i doubt you will.

 

I would’ve ran that before giving up a weekend sitting for it to be reworked. But if you have things to do to pass the time then that can also be a good thing if you haven’t had much downtime.

 

I’d be checking those back boxes to see if there’s anything I could move by hand to the front. You’re not over by much. Then hammer down.

 

Smart man. I used the time to do things like that, too. One thing that may work in your favor, is if you get paid for the layover, because frankly, according to regs, the shipper is required to load the load legally. As drivers, it's our job to hold them to that standard, or it comes out of our behind and record. It should be on them to rework it on their time, not yours...so you should be getting paid for the spring cleaning while waiting until Monday. Just sayin'. Not your fault they loaded improperly. My saying is safe/legal, or not at all. Like I said, I'm not lucky at gambling, so I don't do it.

 

Would I run it? Yeah me personally I’d run it at night. The only scales I’d worry about would be Oklahoma , which I’ve run across the north side with 42000 on the split and the officer was super cool and let me slide, but he did say he couldn’t vouch for what another officer might do.
But it’s better to get the weight shifted at the shipper rather than at a scale house if you were to get that rookie wanting to earn their stripes and wouldn’t allow 1oz overweight to run their corridor and wouldn’t let you leave until a wrecker came out.

 

I would have done it last night. I have a pretty good record with that type of thing in the early morning hours. Not saying it’s wise but I would have gone for it

 

I’m a little late with my response here, but might as well chime in anyways.

Looks like most people said they would just run it, and I probably would have too (I’ve certainly done worse LOL), but I think there is something to be said about the honesty of the driver here. For the guy to give up his whole weekend and most likely screw up his paycheck in order to make the load right and legal, even over a matter of a few hundred pounds, that says a lot about his integrity and professionalism. Especially in this day and age. If I were a fleet owner, that is exactly the type of guy I’d want running my truck. Good on you @TravR1

 

To mee this just shows how little leverage trucking companies have to let a situation like this happen - a truck stuck over the weekend over improperly loaded load. They should’ve reworked it same day, even if it meant staying overtime, and if they went home riggers should’ve been called to rework it at shippers expense.