Need advice- load is overweight

If she has the wheels all the way back on a 53' trailer, then yes she will have a problem in TN., LA too if she goes that way. Ms don't care long as your weights are right on your wheels and now neither does GA.

 

100 pounds is 12.5 gallons of fuel, youll burn it off before you hit a scale more than likely'

 

you are experiencing truck driving.nothing more,nothing less. do what you have to and get going.never let the naysayers and know it all-s dictate your style of driving nor how you drive.if this is all that has gone wrong in 2 years of driving,you my forum friend,have done a superb job.

carry on driver.get this load on off and put it behind you.

side note-i have payed other shippers to reload my freight during a slow time for them.if you can't get the original shipper to do it,find one that will and pay them for it.i am referencing completely different businesses. get the ball rolling-

 

So let me get this straight. You have to worry about how much your truck weights? You have to worry about the distance from the front axle to the rear? And now you tell me there is math involved?

It is stress like this that makes me wonder why a driver is not allow to self medicate with a puff or two.

Relax, you are legal now and you have learned to scale any load over 34,000 pounds.

 

You must have extra money to play with,no way no how will I charge someone else to reload me unless my company pays for it.Ill do my best to get it legal and chalk it up as a lesson learned..She was heavy in the first place and the shipper didn't distribute the load evenly.Wonder how much of a gap their was betuween the nose of the trailer and the first row or product.

 

i see your point but dependent on how far she is from the shipper that loaded her or the amount of time it would take for her to get back to them, a viable option is to knock on doors so to speak and pay to get it reloaded elsewhere. $20-40 is minuscule to be able to start rolling and have peace of mind. the company she works for reads as if they are dragging their feet to me.OP needs to get it done and get rolling and make the company think she is still sitting.she will learn much regarding just whom she works for actually.

oh wait,OP prob has a eobr and qualcom and all that if they route her. I will agree that OP should chalk this one up to experience.It will all work out for her,of that I am certain.her posts are having a bit more calm associated with them. often when in doubt,i just roll with it. you never know anyway and if the nominal weight is the only issue,most scale houses are actually pretty cool and never blink an eye.

 

Hi missj, don't worry, I've had lot's of overweight fines over the years. Aside from the dent in your wallet(or purse) it's no biggie. I know it's hard to tell how much a pallet weighs when it's on the forklift. Maybe ask, what pallets weigh, or when they drop them, you can kind of tell if they are heavy. I would however get that 5th wheel fixed, as that can save your butt, as evidenced here. Good luck.

 

MS, AR, LA and IN is strictly 12,000 lbs for the steers but all of the other states go by tire size. You can probably go as high as 12,650. My steers are always around 12,400 and I never have a problem at the DOT scales.

 

Nowadays, with platform scales, the steer weight is important, but I remember years ago, when scales were just the "tandem "type, we wouldn't even stop the steer on the scale. Once in a while, if you were close, the scale operator would tell you to back up and weigh the steer, that's when that sinking feeling set in.

 

One should never trust their judgement with heavy loads.Even though the load before that one was ok on weight doesn't mean the next load with approx. the same weight is going to be the same.In this case it was shipper who loaded wrong but like I said its the drivers responsibility to have the shipper rework the load.I hate places that don't have an onsite scale or a trk stop near by.But for the most part you can always get the load legal without having to go back to the shipper.Only had one time with I had to go back.No matter how hard I tried and how many times I reweighed I just couldn't get it legal and had many scales to cross.The shipper had to take off 800 lbs.