Broke Down 69...The Adventure Continues

This ended up being a weird day. Got to my pickup and found out that there had been a last minute change to the order. I'm learning that's never a good thing. Had to wait about 45 minutes while they got it all together and the minute they started loading I knew it was never going to work. They hadn't size or weight separated the load and the fellow loading apparently was intent on screwing it up as perfectly as possible. I tried to tell him and the inspector, she has a large part in this later, that not only was I going to be overweight, I was also going to be seriously unbalanced. No use, but at least they had scales on site, more on that later as well. I let them finish stacking wood, I can't even call it loading, and headed for the scales. Well not sure what good they were going to be because not only were they to short for me to get completely on, when my steers and drives were on the scale, my trailer was below me on a steep angle. No good at all. As near as I could figure, and using their own numbers, I was in the vicinity of 3000 over, all on my drives. Reenter the inspector. She shows up, stroking her goatee, and announces the they would remove one stack...from above my tandems. Now anyone with vision could see where the problem was, but she was adamant. At this point I ran out of patience and explained to her in language unusable on this site that she knew exactly nothing about weight distribution and from this point I was in charge of loading and if she didn't like it she could call my boss and take it up with him...which she did. Boss calls me and asks what's up so I tell him and he said that if they wouldn't load it properly to tell them to get the whole load the hell off his trailer. Gotta say I enjoyed telling her that. Finally got the load reworked and close enough for me to feel comfortable with taking it to the nearest Cat Scale, where I found I'd hit it pretty darn good. 79.2k with full tanks.

Now I'm on my way toe deliver, thinking I might have time still to unload and make it to Craigsville a and get loaded tonight so I could take off first thing in the morning. Nope. Get to my drop to find out the only forklift they have heavy enough to do the job blew a hydraulic hose and the replacement won't be here until around 0800 tomorrow.

So I've had a sort of rough day, hope y'alls was better.

 

As usual, you are right...lol.

 

No kidding, she had a better one than me and mine is quite full.