New trucker with quick question!!! :)

They deliver to where ever the shipper wants them to.
Retail outlets, distribution centers, wharehouses...you name it.

 

Try Apple store youngster. It's much easier

 

pick up from shipper
deliver to consignee
collect your moneys owed hopefully.

 

You arrive at the shipper and check in at the office. It could be a manufacturing plant or a warehouse. They will give you a door to back in to. Once you bump the dock they will load you. If there is no one ahead of you and if the load is ready to load, and if your assigned loader isn't busy doing something else, they will usually get you out pretty fast. If the load isn't ready or the loader is on break you will wait, sometimes not too long, sometimes all day. There is no one size fits all in trucking. Once you are loaded you have to sign the shipping papers usually just a bill of lading. When you sign you are saying the count is right and everything was loaded in good condition. You are responsible for all this until you get to your destination. You pull away from the dock, close the doors on the trailer and put a seal on it. The exception to this is if you have to check in at a guard shack on the way in, then the seal goes on after the guard checks you out. If the load was over 42,000 lbs my next stop was a scale, preferably a CAT scale at a truck stop to make sure the wts are right. Just because the bill says it is 42,000 don't make it so. If the load is palletized there is a good chance the weight of the pallets isn't on the bills. 24 pallets at 40-50 lbs each is another 1000 lbs there abouts. Some shippers aren't honest about the shipping weight. Especially if they pay by the pound. I picked up a load of glass outside of Chicago once and the bill said 45,000 lbs. When I weighed it I was grossing 83,000 lbs. The truck and trailer together empty only weighed 31,000 lbs so do the math.
Once you get to the consignee the whole process starts over, only this time they unload you and sign the bills.

 

I have question to piggyback off of the original question, now on the way to the CAT Scales what if the DOT or the weighmaster pulls you over then are you let go to weigh? or do they trail you to the weigh station?

 

you are legal until you PASS the first available scale. So as long as you pull into the first public scale like a cat scale your legal. IF you have to pass a state scale before the first availible scale, call the scale house BEFORE you get there and let them know you are comeing and they will let you weigh at the weigh station. IF you do no call BEFORE you show up, and you over weight your getting a ticket.

If there is ANY question of weight i go what ever direction i have to, to get to a public scale to weight (company policy is we DO NOT EVER cross a state scale until we weigh our loads.)





American Trucker

 

If the place you are picking up from is union, you get to sit for about 3 hours while the forklift driver reads the newspaper and drinks coffee.

 

and god forbid there loading it on a union truck, with all those breaks it could take forever to get there




American Trucker

 

How long does it take a union driver to get from Chicago to Detroit?

NONE OF YOUR #### BUSINESS