Dodge them scales supertrucker!

A Captain knows how to load his ship, and isn't going to be surprised to find 2 stacks of CHEP pallets in the hold.

 

Some of those roadside pallet companies will pay good money for CHEP pallets. They stack them up and walk around the stack with a paint sprayer and black paint. Tax free road expense money.

 

Why should we post about running illegal weights on a public message board? That's about as dumb as talking about modding emission motors on here. Why do you promote some illegal activity but ban others?!? This is ridiculous.

 

Shhh.... "professional" drivers are talking... Next thread: "How come we don't get no respect?!"

 

Outlaws........

 

"professional"

 

"Professional outlaws!!"

 

Back around 1999, I picked up a load of Watchtower magazines from the Jahovahs Witness HQ in Brooklyn. Classic old large-dial scale right on the dock. Load was bound for TN.

Get to NJ, scale it (BOL says like 43000 pounds). I'm 82k. NOT going back to Brooklyn. Made it to TN.

Picked up a load of palletized lumber, blanks for table legs, in NY up 87 somewhere. Ironically, I scaled at the same place in NJ as the above load. It was also 82k, but 100 miles to go back. This load was going to Greensboro, NC. Got it there too.

Of course, back then there were no restrictions to running 17 up around Winchester, VA, so these were pretty easy dodges.

i will add that I was working for the same company on both loads, and was given their "blessing" to go with it....ah, to be young (ish) and naive......

 

We pulled juice out of Bradentown, FL overweight once. Can't remember the delivery point but know we dodged about 7 scales.

Going through a small town at night I ran over somebody's black kitty cat, ran right out in front of me. I knew someone was going to find their dead pet in the morning, and it was my fault, and I wouldn't have been there had it not been for dodging scales with an overweight load.

So - I never ran another one. Doing doubles now, I've annoyed many despatchers, but simply refuse. Over axle or gross - no matter, not pulling it. I do my job proper - you do your loading proper too.

"So, Blair, even though you knew your load exceeded your axle and vehicle weight limits, you still operated said vehicle when involved in the fatal school bus accident . . . ?"

"Ummm, yes your honor, but I . . ."

"No buts about it, son - 10 years for vehicular manslaughter"

"My dispatcher said . . . "

"Your company isn't here to defend you, boy".

 

Your number 2 brings a question to mind for me any way. Why would you drive from Windsor to Sarnia to cross the border. A bridge is a bridge. I've seen a lot of hazmat loads cross at Windsor. Just asking a question.