40 pounds over on trailer axles do you return to shipper to get re-adjusted .. again?

The shipper just got that extra weight hauled for free. You and the company did that job for free. You had the stress and lost a lot of time you were not compensated for. .Your company contracted for a given rate for a set weight. They added more weight and got it hauled for free. This crap is done way too often by shippers.. Personally I would have returned and MADE them off load every thing but what was contracted for,Or off load all of it and good bye. How ever I am not a company driver.
Let's get to the nitty gritty. As a company driver you should have called the dispatcher and have them make the decision to either run or get extra weight off and NOT verbal..It's part of their job and I know some really are not qualified to answer the phone.

I had a shipper add a stop off to a load. I contracted for one stop and that was it. I do not do multiple stops. I saw what they were doing and let my agent know it was not happening. The shipper got upset when I gave them a choice . Off load the stop or off load all of it. They made several calls and did try to lie about it but I made my calls first then talked to shipper.
They off loaded the stop off and I moved the load as contracted. I do not work for free ,neither should anyone else.

 

I second this.

Why would I risk my good record, license, and my wallet on somebody else scam. Once your pulled in for weight you are now on that DOT officer's dipshizts list and that open up a whole another can of worms. At best that is going to suck up more time than it is worth.

I will not 'ask' dispatch to go back to shipper. If I make the decision not to pull it there is no questioning about it. No second guessing, no explaining how to load or scale. No dispatcher BS. I not waiting for dispatch to 'approve' or get back with me; this scam will not take any more time than necessary to fix. It is 100% not my bullet and you don't have a leg to stand on.

 

40 pounds over on just one axle? Let 10 pounds of air out of each tire on that axle and head out to the highway brother.

 

5 pounds out of each tire on the tandem should do it safely.
This thread cracks me up! Waste a whole day over 40
pounds that no scale master is ever gonna bother you about just so you can show the shipper who's the boss?
This the kind of stupidity that pisses shippers off to the point that they view drivers as morons!
Unreal!

JD

 

Actually all you had to do was slide your seat up 2 notches and your good to go!

 

X2
A lot of steering wheel holders out here these days.

 

I was a couple times overweight one by 440 pounds with 1/4 tank, got to go back on that one, another by 800, they got me out of that load, and a third time 50 pounds on drives that went off the exhaust by the time I hit a weight station.

 

It goes by the BOL. If your empty weight is 35,000 and the BOL states you're hauling 40,000 and you scale out at 79,000, you go back and off-load what's extra, or make the broker pay you more for it. Only once every did I get overloaded above what I agreed, and that was onions (which paid by the bag to the broker, my load tender was a truckload at 42k). They told me the bags weighed one weight, and turns out they weighed more. So, when I had them load me to what my gross SHOULD be, it turns out they had me over (luckily, light on fuel I scaled at 80,200). Knowing I wasn't going to hit a scale for a few hundred miles, i knew I'd burn off the diesel to get the gross legal. However, I made the broker pay a higher rate or else I'd go back and off load and get down to my agreed upon weight for the load it was paying.

But, also, won't use that broker again after that. I knew he knew it would be more than agreed. But, was hoping to pocket the difference and got mad at me for demanding more when I knew they were paying by the hundred-weight.

 

Dontcha just love it when people get mad solely because you caught them in a lie, or trying to be sneaky??