What’s the minimum tonnage you’ll accept?

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Did you get your profits erased by overweight by two tons recently? I have more questions, some of which are painful and obvious. Not to mention bordering on stupid. It will help myself and others to understand the overall situation.

 

Depends what I'm hauling and how well it's paying. Sunflowers I've never managed to get more about 24 ton on, something that I can actually get some weight on, like corn or beans, I aim for about 29 or 30.

 

45 tons minimum for me

 

Don't do weight anymore but when I did I could hold 24 5 on a live floor. At the citrus plants it was kind of hit and miss. Did the best I could with air gage on the truck but if I hit 22.5 (anything over 76k) I rolled. Way to much headache to get back around and finagle without going over. And you did not leave over weight.

 

For me, I can haul 27 ton in a pneumatic tank, and be just under 80k, some times we do as you do and not load on a scale, when it comes to loading like that, I use my air gauge on my trailer as it reacts better and faster than the digital gauge in the truck for those axles and is usually pretty accurate to what I have to load to, as I am usually pretty close to loading 77,500-78,000 almost every time. As to your question, and being company driver, they usually don't say much to us when they know we don't load on a scale at some places, but want us to try to load atleast 24 ton. It depends on how much we loaded the first time around, if it's usually anything under 23.5 ton I will go back and load some more, but that is depending on how far you have to go to get loaded, if you have to drive a mile around the plant just to get back to the silo again after you have to close everything up just to drive to the scale, or if there is a bunch of trucks in line already to get loaded, and takes a while to load, forget it that's what it's going out as. At one of the places I load at, it can take them 20-30 mins to load just one truck, so I am not gonna spend 2 hrs just to get an extra ton or 2 to run bc you have to wait in line again. The places we deliver to don't say anything, bc the other companies that haul to them have heavy sleepers on them, and some of them can only haul 24 ton and be just under 80k, so at times they only bring 22 ton.

 

I've taken well over a dozen loads in the last year 1500 to 2500 miles that weighed like 600 pounds. Is that bad?

 

I always figured close, was good enough.

As I told the loaders, scale person, etc., we're just loading a truck, not building a rocket.