Location for the night

Carlisle OC.... Got caught sleeping, took a load to Chambersburg.. Now I'm stuck like chuck. Booked a so so load out of here to Bethlehem. But I can't deliver till Monday. Oh well, I will get a hotel room and get a 34 in. Short work week coming up.

 

Flying J in Aurora, Colorado. Was given a load with an appointment time (delivery) that's basically impossible. Told Des Moines that today and when I put my eta in I get a message from OPS wondering why I won't be there on time. The delivery window is from the 13th to the 19th. Not my fault you wait until the last minute to give it to a driver and expect me to be 1,050 miles by 12:00 (CST) on Monday. Also it is 45,000 lbs according to the bills so thank you to the driver who dropped it as a relay with the tandems all the way forward and no scale ticket. Thanks for all that you do. I appreciate it. They pulled it from Utah to the Denver drop yard like that too. I guess they didn't hit any scales. Sorry had to rant. Ugh. And they wonder why this is my last run for SNI and when I get home on Thurs or Fri I'm done.

 

Even if a driver left a scale ticket you wouldn't scale it your self. I never depend on another driver to scale a load. Who knows how they have their truck set up. It's my money the scale master wants if I take it on another drivers word and it's over weight.

 

These new drivers expect everyone else to do their jobs.

 

I always scale relay loads even if there is a scale ticket. Just like TennMan said, my truck isn't their truck. The only thing a scale ticket tells me is that the load "should" be able to be legal on my truck, unless the other driver was driving a day cab, and that has been known to happen.

 

No I always rescale relay loads but I was told that you need to scale before you drop it as a relay if it is heavy and I have always done that. Thought that was SNI policy???? I guess not. Also I'm not lazy and don't expect others to do my job for me. Sorry if my post came across the wrong way. I'm just frustrated with the planners and ops right now. I apologize.

 

You're absolutely correct, if it's a heavy relay it's supposed to be ****ing scaled before it is dropped. Whether or not I rescale it is up to me, but regardless of what I do the driver that picks up the load and drops it is responsible for initially scaling the load to make sure it's not ridiculously over gross or overweight on the tandems that you can't adjust out of. I got ****ed over multiple times as a company driver by that crap, go pick up the relay load and scale it myself and it's way over gross or I can't adjust the tandems to make it legal. No need to apologize for being frustrated, I've been there and done that and know how much it sucks.

 

Sitting at the Pilot in Beaverdam OH along with 10-15 other Schneiders. Dropping a load tomorrow morning and then picking one up headed back to Bridgeview, IL. Going to stop at Gary and go home for my 1/4 day off and then back at it Monday morning. Booked all the way through next Sunday morning and should be a good week. For all this talk about January being slow I don't see it LOL. Killing it this month so far. One reason I avoid the Northeast is all of the slackers at the warehouses don't work weekends so you get screwed. I want to run where the people are tough and like 7 day work weeks.

 

There's nothing wrong with being frustrated. It originally sounded as if you were dependent on the original driver to leave you a ticket so you wouldn't have to scale it. It does stink that it's not done but it could've been a 3rd party carrier or a day cab or just a lazy driver my point is don't let another driver dictate the way you run a truck. If in doubt scale it out. My advice is to never expect someone else to do it as you do and always CYA.