My time with Swift

Just out of curiosity, what was the weight on the BOL?

 

hang in there its a tough life u think thats bad u will have way worse to deal with just dont quit cause then u will be back on here complaining that u cant get a job u can do it just remember u came a long way p.s always scale anything over 30,000 and dont trust the bol

 

I scale everything. I trust no one as to weight so I scale every single load. Why yes I am a fanatic! LOL I also will not run overweight. I don't care if there isn't a scale house between where I pick up and deliver, there are portable scales. So I won't run overweight. Look, scaling is our responsibility not the shippers or the DMs it falls right on us. We scale, we adjust and if it's over what we can haul we talk to the DM and go back to the customer. It's the driver's responsibility.

As to the shipper telling you that you're late.......check your pretrips as you get them. Do they show it with a past due pickup? If so, call your DM before accepting the load and make sure it won't show as a service failure for you.

As for the drop and hook turning into a live unload................okay I'm going to be blunt: welcome to real life. Sometimes there isn't an empty, sometimes it turns into a live load. Sometimes it even happens to us on a dedicated fleet. We have schedules and loads are suppose to be ready, trailers ready to hook and yet.....there are times life happens and we sit and wait. It stinks but we grit our teeth and deal with it.

It is going to get better, you hang in there.

 

I agree with Nana on a couple points. It is OUR responsibility to make sure the loads are scaled correctly and legal, not the shipper, the customer, or our dm. It falls on you, the driver. Everything about that truck and how it is run is entirely up to you and no one else.

I haven't personally had a drop unload turn into a live unload, but I have had a couple occasions where I've had to sit and wait for 4 hours while my preloaded trailer gets loaded. And that was after it was due to be picked up half a day earlier. Like Nana said, life happens. Deal with it.

 

What? And that went over you max? What in the world are you driving?

 

not gross

over on tandems...........

 

oooooo okay. I got.......confused. thanks

 

Dang, was everything loaded at the rear of the box? That doesn't compute at all. 7th hole should have been fine and dandy. VA is a pain in the arse.