40 pounds over on trailer axles do you return to shipper to get re-adjusted .. again?

DO NOT do that. Ive seen a load come through the front of the trailer from a driver trying that at a scale. 40 pound is nothing. Scales are off by 40 pound sometimes. But, if it were me, id slide tandems back one notch past legal. Unless you have a big arrow, dot wont notice 3 inches past legal.

 

Keeper go driver!!

 

Ive pulled a lot of trailers but ive yet to see any with a three inch hole spacing... just sayin.

Id run it too. A couple weeks ago I rolled 200 over across one cali and three oregon scales. I dont think the scale operators even looked up.

 

to PackRatTDI; Now that there is just funny, I don't care what they say !

 

I get 79,860 which you could of balanced it out better.
I would of slid the trailer axle one hole back and the fifth wheel one notch forward. What little excess on the drives you would of burned off.

That and tie your dog on a leash to the ICC bumper as you cross!

 

In the end it is your choice to run with it, or not.
Most here say to run with it.

Even so, you could get tagged and ragged.

What I find interesting is that shippers feel it necessary to load us to full capacity, or beyond, and we simply take it like sheep.
And to no one's disadvantage but our own if 'the law' wants to make an example of us.


Personally, if I could not weigh legal, I would take it back until I could.
Period.

It is MY responsibility to run my load legal, and MY responsibility to make sure it is so. Because if it isn't legal, I am the ONLY one that gets in trouble for it.
And if a @#$%^&* shipper wants to argue, well, they can simply find another driver.

Take a pallet off - or take the whole dam load off and find someone else!

 

Agreed....moosetek, Again, It was a Touchy situation,very marginal.........Made me actually 'think' about what to do (And believe me,I thought I seen it all by now),..

Nevertheless, If this Shipper in PA was Closer to the scale..I would have returned...

I mean lets face it..The Broker told me 45k..They put 47k plus on me....Who's Fault? Dunno...

But What I do Know is the only one that Suffers..Is the Driver......

 

That is the real point.
If we let them get away with it, they will continue to do so.

If we cost them $$$ by refusing to take an overweight load, and stick with it, they would be forced to reduce the weight on each load.

"Nevertheless, If this Shipper in PA was Closer to the scale..I would have returned..."
But if you did, and charged them for every time it happened... what would happen?
Because they know EXACTLY how much weight they are loading into your trailer!

They would, eventually, make sure that you were at a legal weight the first time out - because it would cost them too much otherwise.

 

And that goes for the big companies, as well.

How much does it cost Swift, Werner, etc., when drivers have to return to the shipper to get it right - when it should have been right in the first place?
Even small mom-n-pop operations.
Simply because a stupid shipper wants to push the envelope with 1,000 pounds and the driver refuses to run with an illegal load?
That puts the driver behind schedule, possibly imposing a cost/fine to the company from the receiver for being late. Not to mention the time wasted in not getting that driver on the next load.


The power has to be with the people transporting and delivering the goods, since they are the ones that bear the brunt of the government regulations.
The shippers and receivers HAVE to schedule around OUR regulations and limitations - NOT the other way around!