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What would you do?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by flightwatch, Feb 7, 2014.

What would you do

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    Drive 90 miles and eat it to make your broker happy

    7 vote(s)
    38.9%
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    Tell the broker to shove the load because they can't do their job

    6 vote(s)
    33.3%

  3. obligatory 3rd option

    5 vote(s)
    27.8%
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    What is a broker? I am broker...

    2 vote(s)
    11.1%
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  1. Feb 7, 2014 #11
    koncrete cowboy

    koncrete cowboy Medium Load Member

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    Id scale it and while your inside get a fly swatter to kill that bug in your sig line.....lol :)

    Thats twice now that #### bug freaked me out lol
     
    koncrete cowboy, Feb 7, 2014
    koncrete cowboy, Feb 7, 2014
    #11
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  3. Feb 8, 2014 #12
    flightwatch

    flightwatch Road Train Member

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    I had them reassign the load to somebody else. Yes, it cost me the load, and I'll most likely sit until Monday, but this is my last week with them because my wife and I are moving and I have plenty I can do around the house...like drink beer and watch tv. I am a company driver, so it doesn't really affect me like it would if I was an o/o. Also, the broker didn't even apologize for not telling me. She was very nonchalant about the whole thing which pissed me off even more. The thing that pissed me off the most was that I passed 6 truckstops on the way to the shipper. 6. It would have been no skin off of my back to stop in and get an empty weight. I would have done it the broker had at least admitted that they screwed up and apologized, and/or my dm told me that I needed to do it. Likewise, my dm was very whatever about it as well, and the only thing he said regarding it is that he couldn't guarantee me another load this weekend.
     
    flightwatch, Feb 8, 2014
    flightwatch, Feb 8, 2014
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  4. Feb 8, 2014 #13
    buzzarddriver

    buzzarddriver Road Train Member

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    Just a note about having an empty weight ticket for the shipper. All the places i have had to have an mty weight ticket required it to be dated within 24 hours of arriving, so having a Cat Scale ticket from 6 months ago might no work.
     
    buzzarddriver, Feb 8, 2014
    buzzarddriver, Feb 8, 2014
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  5. Feb 9, 2014 #14
    PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    Had that happen that the receiver needed an empty scale ticket as well as loaded.. The broker never mentioned it either. But luckily I was in Brazil, IN not far from the nearest CAT scale. They unloaded me and I had to run down to the Pilot at exit 23 on 70, run back up to the receiver with empty scale in hand to get my paperwork. No big deal, just annoyed that the broker didn't say it at first.
     
    PackRatTDI, Feb 9, 2014
    PackRatTDI, Feb 9, 2014
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  7. Feb 10, 2014 #15
    h11way

    h11way Light Load Member

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    Most of my scale ticket's have the date and time,anyway u could get an empty weight after you unload. I have dead headed farther than that
     
    h11way, Feb 10, 2014
    h11way, Feb 10, 2014
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