its time the dot make the shippers have scales on their properties

Wrong answer... LOL

East Central Illinois boy here

 

Chicagoland here.

 

http://regencytrans.com/careers/
There's quite a few decent carriers that only run the northeast and will get you home. Regency is one of them, or at least they used to be.

 

Ironically, the most over weight loads I ever had was with Marten. It didn't matter when I told the shipper that I could only take 43,500. They would say "Marten said you can take 45,000."

I couldn't get the load cut until I went to the scale. I drove a lot of unpaid miles to the scale and back to the shipper.

 

I've seen Regency's equipment (and they've been discussed frequently here on the forums -and not in a positive light). Can you say rust bucket?

 

Well they can't do it anymore since a judge taught them a $100,000 lesson- 2nd time in a less than a month they violated the anti coercion laws.

 

T

Taxachusetts is better than chitgagoland ANY day of the week.
Born and raised in Boston.
Better go to a mega.
Us Boston guys are hard nosed folk. A proud people.
Lol

 

Bull****!
No excise taxes in Chicagoland (or Illinois as a whole).
The roads there are planned better(it doesn't take DECADES to do a simple intersection).
They actually take licenses away from people who can't drive for ****.
And BTW,WHERE'S THE STANLEY CUP??

 

I always told them this on the QC and said that if Safety would send me a msg saying they would take all responsibilities for any and all tickets I would haul it.. never got that msg.

I also was sitting at a Cat scale- 5000lbs over on my drives and nothing could be moved. I told the shipper he loaded it wrong, double pallets on the nose. Dispatch argued with me for 30 minutes telling me to take it. Again, I am 5k over. Oh he says,,, wait.. I have a paper here saying if you move your 5th wheel it will balance out... Oh,,, thanks for telling me this.... again I had to tell him nothing will cure 5k over... so back 30 miles to the shipper and 4 hours later they fixed it...

 

And of course you didn't get paid for it either