Overweight

You know you can put more than 12k on your steers depending on what the weak link is...right? I run 14,500 on my steers nearly every day.

 

You are only about 230 under gross 80000, forget the steer weight for the time being. We are not worried about that.

You are out of fuel. You have no room to move tandem or put weight on back there on trailer. So that's set.

You can try to move 5th wheel but it wont matter. You will still be over on drives.

Go back to shipper and have them take off 1000 pounds from the nose. Reload. Reweigh. It should only take 15 minutes to strip all your pallets straight into the dock's pick line behind your trailer in one group. Go to the front of your load remove 1000 pounds from the first two pallets. Reload straight in as it was making sure those two pallets go in first to the nose.

You should be done in a hour and change at most.

Reweigh. You now should be able to buy some fuel. Say 100 gallons at most. That should give you about 600 miles to work with using a little left over. Careful driving without stomping your horsies will give you 7 or close to 8 mph buying you a reserve of sorts.

After 420 miles get fuel at the first #### fuel stop you see. 70 gallons move along.

Another solution from your company. Since you are restricted to 500 mile days.

Have your company rent a day cab, hand trailer to that driver have him go. A couple of hotel stays should get him delivered and empty.

 

I don't think you should head out. Try to stay at shipper and fix this. You don't have the ... endurance and fuel worth a #### to get anything done, if the scales don't nail you first.

I hate to be difficult or contrary. But everything I am says stay put and fix this at shipper.

 

Move 5th wheel forward 2 holes and go but you’re going to have to carefully manage your fuel load and stay away from the buffet until you get that payload off. I assume you’re trying to say you are at a 1/4?tank?

 

I would also go back to the shipper.

Igor Chicago Illinois

 

Why? He’s not over gross and can be made to axle legally. Maybe he shouldn’t have went in practically empty on fuel but that’s another discussion. Chances are it was made clear what was expected to take on and the driver accepted this prior to loading.

If I go in anywhere that typically loads heavy, I try not to go in with any less than 50% of fuel load capacity as a compromise and to allow for some ability to improve my situation at least slightly without running stupid low on fuel.

 

Plan your fuel stops so you can fuel right after each weigh station. That way you can take on more than 1/4 tank and still be down to legal weigh before the next weigh station. Get Truckers Path so you'll know which weigh stations are open. And if worse comes to worse, run at night.

 

load it right on nose and dont go pass the 48'. i ran a 260" lonestar. never had a problem

 

I once loaded bottled water in the mts of the Tenn/Virginia border headed toward Houston. My weights were very similar. My route was get to I 81 then down I 75 to I 59 all the way to I 10 then west to Houston. I was actually about 1200 pounds over gross after buying fuel in Knoxville. I had ZERO problems with Tenn, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or Texas. DOT scales are notorious for being OUT of calibration. Because of this a lot of flexibility is shown by the weighmasters that are not buttholes. This is followed by official in some places and unofficial in others tolerances of up to 2,000 pounds. Bottom line don't practice being overweight and a "devil may care because I don't" attitude because of what I just said. Get legal and stay that way.

Don't believe what I just said? OK PLEASE don't take my word for it. One day when you have some time go park at a scale and ask the on duty weighmaster about this. DON'T however do it while they are writing a ticket.