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Well, interesting weekend. I left home Sunday morning, got 2 zephyrhills about 10am. Drop & hook as usual. I always run down to dade city flying J to scale for good reason. Gross weight was 80,280 with a quarter tank. Not a big deal as my APU gives me a 400 lb weight exemption. The problem was 41,000 on the trailer. Again, not a big deal if I was staying in Florida, however the load was going to Atlanta. So I stretched the trailer nearly full out, still 35,xxx on trailer. I made the decision not to do it. I called dispatch and that's when #### hit the fan. Im not saying any names, but I will say weekend dispatch is extremely incompetent and useless. I was given the whole speech "find a way around the scales". I made it very clear im not that guy and to find someone else. A little time passes and they say "we got a guy in Ocala with a lighter truck, head there". Ok sure, I can do that. I get there, a nice big red KW.... I knew instantly it wasn't going to happen. He also proceeds to tell me he has full tanks. So he weighs, sure enough 80,400 even. Well, scratch that plan. So he takes off with his original load and here I wait. Then they tell me to go back to zephyrhills for a rework. I do, I get into a dock, get a green light after a while, pull out only to see they turned the pallets sideways so the load could move forward a few inches. They refuse to take any product off as the paper clearly states we are contracted to haul 46,678 lbs. So after more bickering, they have me drop it at the Lakeland yard. Pretty sure I pissed off the weekend planner as my next load didn't pickup until noon today. I had 5 hours available when I dropped the load at 1900 yesterday. My DM is making it up though as I got a preloaded trailer waiting in the morning.

 

I also found it humorous that Davis Transfer is toting around some of our old Washita trailers... yet they have a recruiting sign pointed right at our building.

 

No, I had probably 2 or 3 holes left. I knew with the original weigh it wouldn't matter. I weighed it stretched out just to prove it wasn't going to matter what I did. At any rate, it still doesn't meet bridge in either GA or FL. So still no go.

 

Lol, I love those bitter people.

I picked up a preloaded trailer this morning in ATL with a 0400 appt in Lakeland. Got a p/p after that picking up in Tampa at 11am with a 0500 appt in Dacula, GA Thursday morning.

I pissed off the people at the Eagle truck wash this morning. Sorry, but I am not giving a tip to 6 people washing my truck. Period.

 

Which tribune? Downtown or by brandon?. That's insane I've never had anything grossed over 77000 from the tribune.

 

Finished up in winter haven this morning. Got my preplan Sunday going to Atlanta. Home until then. I was home a total of 4 nights this week (Monday, last night, tonight and tomorrow night)mileage has been slow, I finished with 2133. I was offered a preplan to jax and deadhead back I declined.

Lonerider and bigbrah how's it going?