Big Problem With Load Right Now

How far out of the way was the scales in Louisiana? I would have went out of route to get it weighed. My trainer and i have had to do that a few times but never been in this situation because we go out of the route. We had a load the other way to go to some hole in the wall scale or stay in route for 162 miles out of the way to the 10 to get it weighed. We went out of route and we found out we were overweight. Went back to shipper to get it fixed. Sometimes you have to go out of route to save headaches.

 

I haul grain in the spring and fall. I can hit 80k on the nose reasonably regularly and always within a couple hundred pounds.

They could pay for an air gauge with one trip out of route to a scale and the price to scale the load.

 

Had to do the dodging scale routine on a couple weekends before. Not fun

 

I ran into a similar situation in New Orleans. Friday afternoon loaded coffee and sugar & 5,000 over on trailer tandems. Place closed until Monday. Dodged scales all the way to Nashville. Not much fun, but legally should have sat in New Orleans until Monday. Gamble; sometimes you win & sometimes you lose.

 

Y'all mean to tell me its not normal to dodge scales?

And dodging them isn't all that hard or that bad. Dodging SCALES that is. The little effing inspection stations that are locked up 99% of the time that are open that 1 time you're not legal. Those are the ones that suck. I come down hwy 75 one day 1/2 a mile from the state line found out the one in KS was open...its not easy or fun turning and 80ft long truck and trailer around in a parking lot of a little diner. Although I proved that day it was possible. And that swift driver said I couldn't do it hahaha. I shouldn't say that though he was good enough to tell me that inspection station was open. And it saved my ### from being out OOS.

 

Thankfully, it's the weekend.

Good Luck Driver

 

I've been doing this job for 6 years now and have never had to dodge a scale yet. If that driver needed to be specifically told that he should have gone 20 miles out of route to a cat scale then he deserves what he got.

 

How much weight did your bills say you had on your trailer?

 

It is USA stupid Fuel solutions. They pay drivers edge of zip code to edge of zip code. If they send us 50 miles out of route to save money on fuel, it is our problem. This is BS, but it is part of trucking.

 

Yeah, but no one else is as good of a driver as you are. You are the best. I mean man you are really awesome. Heck I bet you can drive a truck in revers at 80 MPH. I just wish I was half as awesome as you are....