Over weight help?

Hey, I pull a deck and pneumatic. If I'm not the one doing the loading, I'm standing there watching and letting them know they are doing it wrong. Like I said, I'm not a van guy, and never would want to be. If the receiver is so uptight that they'll reject a load for broken shrink wrap, that's their problem.

 

Driver had a legal CAT scale from when he got loaded 1000 miles prior, but over the course of running on the freeway through the storm, his equipment accumulated thousands of pounds of ice putting him overweight in Iowa.

 

Doubt they would reject it for the broken shrink wrap sure. They will reject it as they don't know how much product is in the van now...
Or make the driver wait 12 hours while they count the product, and then the driver is in the same spot as at the shipper. Running out of unpaid time...

 

Unpaid time is better than an overweight ticket.

Just like a no-logbook ticket is better than an HOS violation ticket.

And a load that's on-time because the driver reworked it themselves is better than a late load because they stayed the weekend to have it reworked on Monday.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

This used to be the case. However today if you don't produce a logbook, your getting put OOS and still getting that same ticket. One of my uncles told me a story once from back in the 50s when a Texas cop demanded to see his logbook, would not take I don't have one for an answer. Like I said it used to be much different way back when. Now that I spent the past several minutes I bet your laughing like hell wondering when somebody would do just this!

 

I started just over three years ago and they hinted in school that it's better to play dumb than be caught with a paper book with violations in it, lol.

 

Might as well have stayed at the shipper then, and get it legal. Not only does it help the driver not have to deal with it (any further) it makes every driver behind him have that much easier of a life as the shipper will eventually get tired of re-works and finally get it right the first time.
The fact that too many drivers will take it 'as-is' is why the drivers that insist on it being legal have such a hard time getting it legal.

And I'm not sure I agree with you on making a driver burn their on-duty time not getting paid shifting a load inside the van is better then making the office do their jobs and get a reschedule because the shipper screwed up (yet again).