Overweight ticket, shipper wrong about weight.

OMG this driver LEFT?

**Faints.

Take the money out of his check and fire him. Im sitting here getting ready to write for myself in a positive uplifting manner for encouraging in this time but this... this... oh boy...

 

I don't think you are outlaw yet. But telling drivers to duck a scale will get you hung on your own petard if the law ran him down with portables or something. They do detect clues when a big truck is overweight. Your duals pinch together, lack of speed other than normal upgrade, tractor hopping on steer etc.

 

Well. Driver did not scale promptly at a nearest scale after loading, wherever that is. Driver ignored excessive weight on his tractor trailer. Driver did not know to in whatever reason that 67000 (13000 over 50K on bill of lading) is too exteme for a normal tractor trailer. He probably did some damage somewhere on that rig.

I could come up with a few other things against driver. But the more I read and digest this thread, I lean towards firing him.

See... I don't ask drivers to do what I wont do. I scale all my loads where possible because 10.00 is way better than 2700 or a firing over same if written against you the company, my boss. Follow me? I actually do care about gross weights, axles etc. Trucks are generally pretty safe when they are at 40 ton, they can take a little more now and then. But not make a habit of it. But this case 13000 over, tells you have a BIGGER problem with that shipper. Who gives away that much steel or whatever it was on that trailer? Did shipper make a dollar extra under the table and somehow benefit from breaking your truck with extra weight at your own risk?

 

If you already had a policy in effect that the driver had signed, you might be able to deduct it from his wages. Some companies do but if you didnt have that policy in effect at the time, you might get into trouble deducting it.

 

Ok.

Let's have another question if you can stand me one more time.

Is it at all possible your driver totally neglected to be present during loading and the shipper somehow just slapped on more product because he or she could?

Most of the time I am present during loading, particularly with flatbeds because that stuff has to go just so. Follow me?

 

What is it they say, Live and Learn? Might be better to just take it with a grain of salt and chalk it up to experience. Of course I would call the shipper- a mistake in weight that big is uncommon.