Dodging scales

Everyone but you, knows it's Billy Big Rigger. I guess we will hear one of your LAME excuses of why you didn't get it right! Better yet, something LAME like YOU DON"T CARE. LOL, just remember the next time you turn in a log for 11 driving hours for 150 miles because of traffic, I would make you walk home.

 

I decided to educate you on being BILLY BIG RIGGER. This so you can pretend to know what your talking about because we know you don't! Take notes.



Inducted into the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame in 1991, Billy Parker began his radio career in 1959. After stints in Tulsa, Wichita, & Oklahoma City, the multi talented singer-songwriter joined the Texas Troubadours. In 1971, Billy returned to the airwaves on KVOO AM in Tulsa. Shortly thereafter, the Billy Parker Big Rigger Show became a mainstay for eight & one half years. Currently, Billy can be heard in Tulsa on KVOO FM (Sunday nights) & on KCKI FM (Saturday mornings).

 

I run in Texas only, so I know my way around the scales where I'm going. I just dont want to risk a ticket or an out-of-service. My truck is a 1996 model that I try to maintain as best as I can. I have good tires, brakes are tight, no oil or air leaks but I pull a different trailer everyday that might have something defective. Its just easier to go around and get it repaired when you get back home.

 

That would be to nice.
IMO why drive in to the scale house which has a nice A/C running probaly even when coops are closed wasting energy.Let them get out in the heat earn their money.And maybe the heat will make them hurry up

 

Amazing the calculation abilities of a scale man.
I was hauling meat from a packer in MS to the branch warehouse/dist storage in B'Ham, AL. Ran over the 130 miles each Wendesday and Friday nights. Company weighed out each unit for gross and really no reason for any problems. Imagine my surprise when one Wednesday night; right after I started, the scale man hailed me to "pull over and come in". Umh- Did not say "Pull over and bring in your registration" which I was more familiar with from past employers.
I park and go in. Man says" Oh, your're not ??????. I said no, I'm ME, what do you need, He states I am over weight on the drive by one (1) 14 pound hickory smoked ham. To just tell ?????? at the plant I let you go on, but send that ham back next trip.
I expressed my appreciation for his consideration and did pass the message at the plant.
Imagine, the following Friday when I climbed aboard, in the pasenger seat was a very neatly wrapped 14 pound hickory smoked ham with a neatly printed note citing for ???? at Columbus scales.
Moral: Blackmailers should be specific in their demands.

 

I see no reason for my truck to be going around scales. It's sound and weight is always right or the truck don't move. The 70's is over, "Smokey and the Bandit" is dead! B.J. and the bear got a divorce. Its time to join the new meilium and be what we're supppose to be "Professionals". We don't respect the job or much of anything else these days. I see drivers pass by a broke down truck without so much as a yell on the radio. A female driver can't even ask for directions without getting a earful. It's time we took a step back and ask ourselfs what kind of people do we want to be in this industry. Get TOGEATHERand make it happen. Oh! drivers won't stand up for themselfs right? I really hope that's not correct. If it is I'm afraid we may be doomed.

 

I was hauling my favorite load of Sams Club water from Fort Worth, TX to North Platt, NE Wally World DC. I went north to hook up on 35W by the new race track (probably a bad route in retrospect) and headed up to Denton to scale at the TA. Waited for an hour to scale behind RVers who were axle scaling and doing a piss poor job of it. RVers had CB radios and started threatening drivers who were complaining on the radio about waiting. Anyway, I was at near gross but not over because my fuel tanks were not even half full. If I moved the trailer axles one pin back I over loaded the truck drives and if I moved it one pin forward I over loaded the trailer axles. So right in the middle of those two other pin positions is where the trailer axles had to stay.

Problem was my steer axle was something like 12,400. I drove anyway. I had to get fuel too so this was going to make things worse. I got to the first scale in Kansas hoping I had burned enough fuel from a fill up in Ardmore, OK to be legal and I scaled something close to 13,000 on steers but they let me go. I had to be right at 79,900 gross. Now I have heard I could be up to 13,000 on steer axle as long as I was not over gross but I don't know what is true.

I was so afraid of getting a ticket I drove highways all the way to North Platt, NE. It would have been highways anyway from I-70 to I-80 but I had a scale in my way north of Salina and I dodge it. It made for nice scenery anyway as it was a nice day out.

NOTE: I want to add that I generally don't make a practice of hauling over weight loads. But this load was something like 44,000 lbs and it was only my fuel that made me over gross. Now I had been sitting in Denton for three days waiting for a load to take me home. I had been out five weeks. I don't consider myself a smoky and the bandit wanna be but I have my limits to sitting for free at Texas TAs. Your mileage may vary.

 

No.... I used Bubba Big Rigger for a reason,

 

I understand, the last company I was working for I was also pulling a reefer. They always would tell me oh the load only weights 42,000.. Ya right my butt.. Try like 44,000 and 46,000.. they always were doing that to me especially when the shipper was a good hour or more from a scale, knowing most likly I would not drive back unpaid to take some off. many times I had to run 1/4 or less to be under gross and to top it all off the trl had 6" holes, made it pretty difficult to get things legal at that weight.

It really depends on the scale you are crossing if you are going to get by with 13,000 on the steer. sure it is legal to but only if your truck and tires are rated for that weight.. most of them you will see with tires that look more like a drive tire then a steer on the front.