Over weight help?

I might be a minority of one, but your comment almost raised the hair on the back of my head. The issue I had is if you did not go back to the shipper you either busted a seal or left the shipper without one to start with. I am the son of a truck driver and grew up around his friends most of which were truckers. ALL of them told me right off to NEVER leave a shipper without sealing that load and having that seal number noted on the shippers copy of the paperwork. EVEN if you have to buy a package of seals! If you do so and there is a shortage discovered later YOU have just opened your carrier and YOU up to being held responsible! This is not me trying to talk down to you or start a drama session. This comes from OVER 25 years on the road.

 

From my perspective if the shipper did not issue and shipper install or at least confirm then it means nothing.
EG If it is your seal how many do you have with the same number.
Even company issued seals are documented and signed for and recorded.

 

Thankfully this was never a major problem for me over the years. However those few times I simply refused to sign the bills until a seal was placed on the load and number noted on bills. Most of the time the shipper placed their own. Another problem was multi stop loads. It is a pain in the butt however as a driver you need to make the attempt. To not do so leaves you with no defense if later Something comes up.

 

I couldn't stand pulling a trailer that I don't have any say on how it's loaded.

Cut the cling wrap and move 1800 pounds of bags to the back. That's only 36 bags if they are 50 lbs each. A little unpaid hard work is cheaper than an overweight ticket.

 

Your 5th wheel is for steers only. Having it all the way forward introduces other issues like trying to turn properly fully with that trailer back there.

You are too heavy loaded in the nose of your trailer. IF you already moved tandems on trailer all the way up and half tanks fuel and still need to move below 34000 on your drives I'd just as soon go back to the shipper in Texas and tell them to rework the load. (IF it's sealed...)

Don't try to come through Memphis. Scales here are pretty open these days west and south of that city. And I think you have another scale before LA on I-20 and still more at Hope Arkansas and so on.

If your trailer isnt sealed and you can get into there, move about two pallets worth of stuff towards the rear 1/3 from the nose pallets. That should help some and reweigh. But most loads are sealed usually so back to shipper you go. (Oh find a wall or a building, get close enough to get into that trailer but prevents both doors from being closed and locked with you inside of it.)

Work with your dispatcher on this. You do not want to be overweight. And if you know you are overweight, then let's get this fixed before the Law gets ahold of that magic number and start getting into your pocket for that money.

 

And then get the load rejected.. Brilliant!

 

Friend of mine ran I94 through to Wisconsin with hay bales a couple weeks ago. He scaled in the yard with 3/4 tanks. 78 thousand and change. Scale in the yard was just calibrated two weeks earlier. Gets pulled in at the Moorhead scalehouse and asked why he was 80,600 lbs.

Then the week later, he's running 79,800 out of the yard and gets the left-hand arrow from the rolling scales.