2nd trip done.

Just got home last night from my second trip as a new O/O. It was a good trip but had a few of the usual trucking challenges. Firstly I had a hell of a time trying to get through to the dock workers at the shipper when being loaded that they had loaded the trailer too heavy in the nose. They refused to listen until i had gone and scaled it. So i did, then i went back and battled them to make it right. Got it done in the end but there were a few choice words used before i got my way! Boogied on down to laredo and delivered the load. Had to wait overnight wednesday to thursday for my re load to come over the border from mexico.Then back on up to canada. Fuel mileage suffered a little bit pushing a headwind the last few days of the trip. Had a trailer tire repaired, company pays that, only took half hour in York, Nebraska. I am really enjoying owning my truck and am happy with my choice to become an O/O. There are lots more little things to keep up with but I am liking the challenge and think I am getting a grasp on things. I am putting together a list of things i would like to improve on my truck and will be using these small things as goals to reach and keep on top of the little things before they become bigger( more expensive LOL) problems. I would like to look at re-carpeting the interior, changing my turn signals etc to LED's , just small things at the moment but as my money builds I will be thinking on putting some investment into other areas of the truck. Little by little a bit at a time and keep putting the money in the bank as well!

 

I have a load gauge and told them i already knew it was over on the tractor drives. My company loads there consistently and has problems with them consistently. The deal they came up with is that they load us then we go scale it (7 miles to scale), they pay us the miles to scale it then if its not loaded correctly we get hourly pay from the time we get back to the shipper until the shipper gets the load right. We are also reimbursed for the scale costs and additional miles if we have to rescale it again. We are not allowed to have the load sealed and released until it is loaded correctly and legally scaled out. The only real loss to me is the time wasted screwing around getting the load re-worked. It is a pain but what else does a guy do? Seriously thinking about an air weigh on board scale so i can see and show them the actual weight in pounds.It wouild be worth it for this shipper alone as its a company dedicated account and 90% of our southbound loads , so i will be hauling out of there alot. When i told them i knew it was over because of the load gauge they said "we dont accept that, it has to show an actual weight or have a scale reciept with weight shown". They are typicall know it all jack offs but if i follow the companies procedure for loading at this shipper then i get the money.