Overweight ticket, shipper wrong about weight.

Well everyone makes mistakes but after talking with driver today and I asked him how did you not know the truck was that overweight? It has a air scale on dash. He said well the air scale in truck read 85psi and I said well that means you are overweight! I said why didn’t you scale it and he said I didn’t have $10 and by the time I was loaded and would got to scale I would not had time to get back for them to take some off. I said ok after you get unloaded bring the truck to the yard. I may sound harsh but that’s just pure laziness and total disregard to the company. If I was driving for someone I would have went back to yard and waited till morning before I went down the road.

 

Depends on how it’s loaded. At around 70-73 you are close and should be heading to a scale.

 

The fuel card allows them to purchase weight tickets. Boils down to he wanted to get home and couldn’t get there if he scaled and went back to yard.