One VERY EXPENSIVE Ticket For Running Overweight

I’ve never loaded anywhere near that heavy, but if I did I sure wouldn’t be rolling around in the daylight.
I used to load potatoes in Colorado and strangely enough my sleeper berth always in the daytime.

 

Working on night moves!


Bob Segar said it best. But sometimes things happen.

When I was a kid, Dad got busted Northside of Detroit. 154k payload on 6 six axles and Ohio plates. 2 days jail. Truck and cargo impounded. 5500 bucks cash. 1987 maybe.

 

I would agree. But it sucks with Elogs cuz they make flipping schedules more difficult

 

I think I can do better than outhouse, a phone and a kitchen table.

 

My guess would be he couldn’t afford insurance. It would be interesting to know the whole story. Does he know someone at the steel mill that loaded him or did he pick up under someone else’s authority?

 

Lol...in my north Dakota potatoe hauling days somebody laid one over in Wisconsin and when they opened up the trailer he had 2 loads .
Not long after that Minnesota and north Dakota were in the potatoe sheds going thru scale tickets.
Party was over!

 

The broker in Colorado would send you to sheds with no scale when they found out that you would load heavy. There used to be a self serve scale we went to,then call in your weight. The place we unloaded at had there own scale and that’s what they paid by so as long as the weights were close all was good. I still carry a stack of blank bills.