Ooops.
My reading comprehension is null and void right now.
I thunk he said his drives were 34500.
I went back and looked and it was his trailer.
I'm gonna blame it on this dude beside with optimized idle cranking every 10min that's kept me awake all night.
load-scaling reality check
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by mathematrucker, Jan 16, 2018.
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I refused to haul the load on the grounds that I need to protect my CDL.
What ultimately happened was, the loading driver was dispatched to take it into CA. She got away with setting the kingpin-rear-axle distance at 40' 5" and completing the delivery without getting pulled in for overlength at the DOT scale. -
Get back to shipper and have him rearrange it. Next time cat the #### thing in town. Don't go no 80 miles. What a waste of time and fuel having to go back.
Second option.
Breach trailer doors and seal, Pack ### end heavy freight to the front crawling over the cargo. About a pallet or two will be enough. And this will be a reinforcing lesson not to drive no 80 miles to a CAT scale.
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My drivers can scale wherever they want. But, that fuel difference is coming out of your check and your miles are not paid paid that’s 160 miles YOU are deciding to drive on YOUR own. Wasting YOUR own time. By having to go back to re work the load.
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Just get it going about 55 mph and slam on the brakes. That 500 pounds will move
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Edited to fix a mistake. If you are forced to fix another drivers mistake do what you have to do that works best for the situation. No point trying to fix it if you are closer to final then shipper. If you can't fix it before having to cross an open state scale you MUST be ready to get your company safety dept involved. Let them make the call on what to do.Last edited: Jan 16, 2018
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I had this in Los Angeles. Got to the T/A in Ontario, scaled. About 800 over on the trailer. Opened the doors, took all the boxes of ceramic tiles off the smallest skid on the back, hand bombed them all the way to the front.
Rescaled, problem solved.x1Heavy Thanks this. -
I guess I don’t play well with others. I don’t do repowers. Some drivers like to go to a shipper with minimal fuels they can load more weight. Some shippers will have their own scales to load trucks as heavy as legally possible. Some drivers, when they’re loading for someone else don’t care how things are loaded. If I didn’t load it, I don’t pull it. Why should that fool get paid to load and drop all responsibility? No one wants to pay you to fix the mess, do they?Tb0n3 Thanks this.
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