Run this load?

I would not run that load. Shipper has to rework it. If they wont, then your company needs to find a box truck, something with two axles and a 20 foot box, toss 3 pallets onto him and he will follow you to delivery. Problem for him will be fuel. Them small trucks don't have the stamina to fuel once a day like you do. They will need to stop often.

You might wanna take a look at your outside rim about the 4 oclock position, is that crack working on the wheel? Or is it a marking left behind by a mechanic etc.

 

Pressure from dispatch.... I've been punished load wise for refusing loads that are too heavy. I'm lucky that financially, I'm able to refuse loads that are too heavy.

 

If that is even remotely true. Then it sure is time to move on to a company that has a bit more professionalism.

Any dispatch person that places you in a position of compromise, such as taking an unlawful load, needs to be reportd to the appropriate parties. They are placing not only you as the driver but the company as well in jeopardy, and in some states, the shipper as well, since they had knowledge of the unlawful load condition.


Had one dispatch person try that exactly once on me.
Needless to say, they did not care for the outcome.

 

It's true. I quit the company that would let me sit after I would turn down over weight loads.I pull flatbed now, and still when I show at a shipper, they'll try to get me to take a 52000 lb load. I tell them 50000 is my limit. Then it's, we can't cut it and there's no scales on your route. Quikrete in Fremont constantly would try that. I tell them, cut a pallet or count me out.

 

All other posts after this one are pretty much redundant. Remember, it's YOUR butt on the line if, God forbid, you are involved in an accident, and are either overweight, or have a kpv. And much worse if it is major injury, or fatal.
Everyone can tell you what they "would" due. That doesn't mean you should do it, or, for that matter, that they would do it.
Sure, you might get away with it, but then again, you might not. Why chance it?

Obviously, you thought it was, and you did it. Are you by any chance an O/O?

Right, we know you're going to get screwed. And we don't care. It isn't that we have anything against you, we just don't care.

Dispatch wants you to get the load where it's going. A lot of companies pay dispatchers to get the loads delivered. So dispatch has a strong self interest in seeing you take the assigned load, deliver it or Tcall it off, and go on to the next load. New drivers quite often have neither the experience, or the guts to argue with them.

 

No, not an O/O.

 

I hope you don't work at Crete because their guaranteed detention pay doesn't mean they will actually pay.

 

He doesn't. He works for Swift. I never had an issue getting paid for detention when I worked for them, but sometimes you have to remind your busy DM to kick the approval over to accounting.

 

OK, thanks for the info. If I understood your post correctly, (and I may not have,) you said that you ran illegal into California. If that is right, and knowing California as I do, I don't understand why you would accept the load, as a company driver. Just curious.

 

Anheiser Busch north of Denver seemed pretty strict about not letting you leave the property if you weren't legal.