How much fuel to put on?

how many scale receipts are you turning in for this load???

 

I just caught that to. The company is only going to reimburse you for the 1st one. The rest are on you.

 

Prepass doesn't work in Oregon.

 

Yeah, getting that 5th wheel set is a problem for some. They think they have to keep sliding it all over! As for loading a reefer, it all depends on the load and weight of the load. It doesn't have to be single, double single all the time. If it's a produce load it doubles all the way back if it's mixed or 1/2/1/2/2/2 if a single heavy product. It all depends on the product,and I don't need a BOL to tell me weight any more. After a few years you kinda learn the weight of produce! The learning curve is really steep on that when the tickets come out of your pocket! Once I have my pick list I'm good to go.

I actually prefer to put the singles in after row 4 as they don't "throw" a box or two off the stack further back. And yep NEVER EVER leave a single on the tail end of a load! ANY kind of load dry or reefer! You'll learn that when you pay that OS&D out of pocket or have to do work you shouldn't have to do like re stack that pallet because you took a curve a little to fast or the stack came apart because it's brother wasn't there to help it stand up!

Once you get your ducks in a row things come together a lot easier.

But reweighing after each fueling was a waste of money! You should have weighed BEFORE you fueled but you already had your weight and knew where you were on that note. You had your weight, you drove how many miles divided by what your truck gets and your answer was right there in the gallons you used so you just replace those. But another question is this. If you went from MO to Atlanta and it's 810 from KCMO why would you keep fueling? Unless that truck gets really crappy miledge like 4 MPG you should have been able to make the whole trip on 125 gallons at 6.5 MPG so fueling before you got there was a little expensive unless you have a really good deal on fuel prices.

Now if your company won't pay for all of those scale tickets keep the ones they don't pay and put them on your taxes at the end of the year.

 

Your right Rollover, It does depend on what you are hauling as to how it loads. But a good rule of thumb is s/d/s. I have had singles on the back. Cores they where half pallets.

 

OMG! Don't get me started on those half pallets and multi drops! Especially in NYC! That's a great exercise in stupidity! Every driver with a few years with multi drops can tell more than one story! ROFL!

 

ok ya'll are missing some important things..........

1. when he loaded, how much fuel did he have on, common sense says he should have loaded with full tanks

2. where did he start and where is he going, and what states is he driving through, remember some states allow more weight on drives and tandems then others.

 

Oh and here's one for the exp. guys, wanna have real fun, let's try his situation when you can only slide your fifth wheel, permanent mount tandems, such as what I deal with on container chassis. That's when it get's real fun, especially when you have a shipper who is not familiar or exp. with loading a container. We have one in Shelley, Idaho that ships potato flakes. Typically they put 45,000 lbs on a 40' container, I'll usually be sitting at 80,400 when I load with 1/2 tanks. I top off in Denver before I leave, and don't refuel until I'm loaded and headed back. Depending on weather conditions heading up, I either have to fuel in McCammon as soon as I exit the highway, or I'll fuel in Montpelier, usually I make it back to Little America or Rock Springs and then I can top off since Wyo. has higher zxle weight limits, and once I get past Kemmerer I don't have to hit another scale until SB. at Ft. Collins.

There is a serious pucker factor with this load, as it's bags of flakes, they don't care how much you weigh empty, and will not short the load.