Thoughts on efficiency

Not sure if you've pulled over width on your flat or not so here's my $.02

1. Some of those routes...especially PA, can be a *****. Get a GOOD map and make sure you find where SR 3001 is for example. Often the routes on the permit aren't named the same in Rand McNally, or on your GPS. Sometimes Google maps will have them named correctly but the best I've found is the regional paper maps for Pennsylvania....i.e. county maps.

2. Check the permit to see if they're routing you on county roads. If they are, your permit might not be valid on that road and sometimes the DOT like to set up in the vicinity. NY likes to do this. Been there done that. Got pulled over by a trooper in ON once just to make sure I had permits. I handed him the ON permit. He looked it over and saw that I was routed on two county roads. Then he asked to see my county permits. I had them of course, but many would have over looked it.

 

Too funny, Red.

 

As most know, I am based in Texas & do 80% of my running here. As such I get to deal with their ridiculous routing, always need to add 10-20% minimum to the miles on your quote, even if it's just going around the corner.

Other than the extra miles, the only thing I have had to deal with them on has been routing for height. Twice they have tried to route me under a bridge that was too low. Once on 77 under the RR trestle just north of Refugio, TX, the other time was on Loop 1604 around San Antonio, TX.

Extra height always adds extra stress for me. Every tree limb, every power line, every bridge, every street light looks too low.

I still believe they are sitting around smoking dope & throw darts at a map to route you.

As for the OP, this should be your unbendable mantra to the boss, the shipper & the receiver, "the load will get there when it gets there, not a second before". That doesn't mean not to give them an ETA & try to be there then, but things will happen that will slow you down & the ETA is just that, an "Estimated" Time of Arrival.

 

If you find it, please share it...
Cause I haven't

 

^^^^^^^^^^^

See this, Red? There's a certain set of rules for OSOW, okay? You got that. Cool! There's a completely different set of rules when a load crosses over into SUPERLOAD territory. With your setup, the 7 axle, odds are, the only way you're going to hit that is overheight. That can easily turn into a nightmare. And that's with you, the driver, doing everything right.

Someone in some office somewhere forgets to cross a T or dot an I, and suddenly, you the driver get caught in the middle of something where groups of people who speak in lawyerspeak have to be coaxed into communicating with each other for weeks or months on end...with you sitting and waiting.

You did your homework, were on route, but get somewheres that your superload doesn't fit, and suddenly, you're stuck there waiting for a month until the governor has absolutely nothing to do, to make a decision.

You wind up sitting in a dirt lot for so long that you know everyone in town by name. @Rontonio, tell him about your adventures in Ohio.

 

Do I have to?