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

Even if you weigh your load at a customer its best to reweigh it at a cat scale.Except beer loads,ive never had any trouble with the weight being inaccurate from their scales.

 

If you as a shipper tell a carrier not to bring in a certain type of trl. and they do.. Thus causing you to cut the order. Here's a simple way to solve that. Don't ld. the freakin trl. Refuse it and make a report. Wrong trl .type.. Do not pay them either for a trk. ordered not used.. You want a van trl. You should get a van trl..
How about if I show up with my lowboy for that ld. and tell you I can only haul 20000 net to be legal at 80000.
Will you still ld. my lowboy when you ordered a van??
I bet not, so quit lding the reefers, and losing time and money shipping your product..

 

Most shippers have a scale in their warehouse and know what exactly what the pallets weigh before the load your trailer. (Dry van and reefers). The problem is most of their workers don't know how to do math, or they just want to load those 2000 lb pallets all the way to the back door. We have on board scales and when the shipper tells us to go and get a Cat Scale ticket before they will cut the load, we tell them to take it all off, that we are not going to waste our time nor money to prove that we are right.

Their job is to make widgets, put them onto pallets and load them on our trucks.

Our job is to know how and where to haul those widgets legally.

 

I've been told to show up to beer shippers with full tanks because they will try to put you near gross weight. If you don't fill up beforehand you'll have to fill up often along the way to the 90.

Apparently most beer places are peckerheads.... Based on what I've been told by other drivers.

 

Agreed, that is why we stay away from them. Same with grocery warehouses, dog food plants, most meal facilities on the hopper side.

 

My trainer got kicked out on one and told never to return lol

 

They pay you for that...Will you take less to give them that responsibility?

 

Problem is im an owner operator. ... ill never go back though

 

Would enjoy working with a shipper like you. You are 100% right, we have on-board scales on our trucks as well, for those shippers that are really far away from a CAT scale. It is a necessity when we are running our hoppers. They are usually within 100 lbs of the CAT scale, best investment we ever made.