Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

After all this, I am done for the day. I told dispatch that I was tired and going to bed and will scale it out in the morning. The night chimp said I needed to scale it today and have it reworked because I still have drive time available...I told him what part of I AM TIRED don't you understand, it was 100°+ all day today, and these POS Freightliners can't keep up..SAFETY FIRST AND FOREMOST my ###. I told him that if he wants it scaled today, either send someone to pick it up, then they can take it to Cali...or he can come down here and scale it himself.

 

Also, my truck is warning me that my DFP is almost full, but it won't let me do a manual parked regen. I am about 1 more problem from parking it and retiring. Driving a truck has lost all it's appeal to me.

 

When I was messaging back and forth with numbnutz in Ops last night, I told him, based on my weight, and the appearance of how loaded my trailer tires look, I would estimate that my rear tandems were carrying 37-38000. He messaged back "how can you tell you're over if you haven't scaled it". I told him 30+ years of experience and common sense. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to deduce that it won't be over on the axles when putting 44300 lbs on a trailer, loaded to within 3' of the doors, then having to set your tandems at 40' for Cali. He still tried to push me to have it reworked yesterday until I offered to have safety explain to him what it means when a Driver says he's tired. Then he had an amazing idea, scale in the morning and have it reworked...geeez, I wish I would have thought of that...oh wait, that's what I had been saying I was gonna do all along. However, it turns out, I was wrong...it wasn't quite as tail heavy as I expected...but #### close