Protest At Weigh Stations

Out here they learn quicker than Ontario.

Since about 1981 Alberta has a law on the books that a SHIPPER can be held responsible along with the carrier for causing a truck to be overweight.

 

My gauges that the truck came with said 68 psi = 17,000 kgs. Trailer 65 psi = 23,000 kgs. Each PSI was about 300 kgs.

 

Now one thing you have to remember is none of the scales in these pits tell you your axle weight, nor do the loaders nor the pit manager care about your axle weights. This process of re-loading would be endless and they'd have you out of there ASAP and make sure you sit tight at home. The ground reality of the situation is very different and the last person that needs to be blamed in this situation is the driver, and that's who was getting the tickets. The rule has been reverted and only your gross weight will be checked and accounted for, because that's how the system's set up. Axle weights are not a practical thing to measure having a safe and allowable gross weight makes more sense.

 

One of our guys last week was 700 kgs over on the tri-axle on a super-b hopper bottom. The scale made him shovel it into another hopper to get it right.
I guess Ontario gravel haulers don't own shovels.

 

Probably cut the rates so bad they can't afford a shovel.

 

Is there a display showing your weight that you can see from the truck? Pull on slow...idle in 1st or 2nd gear. Make a mental note of what your steer axle shows. Add to that whatever your drives can legally carry and compare to what the scale shows when they get on the platform. Do another quick calculation adding to the weight showing for the maximum you can carry on the trailer axles. Done. You now know whether you're legal or not on all of your axles and which (if any) are heavy. Doesn't take any longer to figure out than it does to drive onto the scale, so nobody even has to know that's what you're doing. Air gauges in the suspension get you close. Double checking as you cross the scale makes sure you're legal.

This ain't rocket science...just trucking. There is a REASON driving a truck is considered "unskilled labor", and folks who can't seem figure out the simplest of things really makes it tough to argue any other way.

 

Smart ###, the last job I had before I left ONTARIO was hauling 80,000lb loads of ORE out of Sudbury, before that was flat deck quad axle also 80,000lb loads so don't talk to me about weight distribution, lol.

 

You gravel guys just keep doing what you're doing ....give the scale guy something to do rather than harass me

 

So they think that axle weights don't apply to them. Fascinating.

 

After 7 pages of this .... I'll 'weigh' in ......... gravity sucks ! ........ !!