To TONU or NOT to TONU... That is the question

I have most likely forgotten more about truck driving than you will will ever know. If you would ever want to learn how to drive a truck or run a trucking company please pm me . I will do my best to help you out at the rate of $150.00 an hour. From the looks of your posts it would be money well spent.

 

what i was talking legal. i was meaning height. cuz it seems that not every trailer can haul the same height. some sit higher or lower then others.

my trailer at it's highest point is 42 inches off the ground. so the tallest i could haul would be 10 feet.

where as a standard flat could only haul somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 feet.

 

A few months back I had a freight bill number and pick up info for what was posted as a 20k load. After my sunday drop and hook I empty moved out of Seattle and headed for Lewiston ID. This was going to be my load back home,it was not a huge money maker but it was lighter than the loads usually available out of the area and combined with the load I brought up it put me in the 2.25 range for the 2800 mile loop.

I get an email on monday morning and the weight on the bills had jumped to 45k. Now I can,have and will pull that kind of weight but I want to know up front and its got to fit into my plans. A load weighing that much going from Lewiston ID to San Diego CA at the rate it was paying was not something I would have taken.

The agent claimed the load I called on was an old load and the load he put me on is the one that should have been posted. My first thought was not that he lied,I was pissed that I had empty moved 200 miles for a load that was now almost twice as heavy as what it was posted at. I told him I would not be able to cover the load and called JAX to let them know what was going on. They told me I was in the right but the subject of a TONU never came up,knowing what I do now I might have pushed the issue. I ended up empty moving from Seattle to Vernal UT for a 5.00 per mile 6k hazmat load that dropped 30 miles from the house so it worked out in my favor that time.

 

If you run the 5 corridor and the Rocky Mountain West, I'd like to have you in my contacts. I don't get a lot of freight out there, but what I have is usually pretty fairly priced.

 

Well Sir(use the term loosely), Ill decline your offer I have no interest in getting into who has the bigger pecker fight! But Ill tell you this if you are that unhappy with the way LS does business then either work to change it or get the hell out!

 

This is deceiving, legal height varies on equipment, your step is 42" my step is 34" and my rgn is 20". the kicker here is that you can adjust your suspension some to accommodate taller loads and get to the 13'6" height, but in some states up to 14' is the magic number ie Tx,CA,Ok,Az,...... Fl is 13'8" not sure about the pacific north west don't haul up there to much anymore. And then there is kicker number 2 you have to be qualified by LS to haul over width and over height, if your not then you must call for approval prior to loading or right after loading if the dims are wrong.
Hope that helps

 

my understanding is 14 feet in the west. 13.6 east of nebraska. as a safety number.

as for weight. 20,000 or 40,000 my fuel stays pretty much the same. in the low 5's.

somebody gonna have to tell me what motor gets 8. and what truck. cuz the cats and isx's certainly don't fit the bill.

i understand the govt like to stick there heads up our butts. but i can't for the likes of me figure out why some trucks get better then 7 while others can't muster 5.5. i got 6 once. on a 5000 pound load going DOWN from the west to the east. hauled a 3,000 pound load goimg UP from the east to the west and i was right back at 5.5

 

have no plans to run the 5. but i've been mostly west. and would like to keep that and home on weekends like i had with the last 2 companies.
as long as it's not wood, sheetrock, steel, or cars. LOL.

 

I would win this one by a long shot..