Quit DHT no notice no job

Bet you he has another job by next week.

 

I thought DHT was a solid company. I know they run a pretty easy lane across 10. But I'm just go by what people have said.

Well that sucks OP. Being OTR on a bad few months, especially strung out in Texas can suck balls most definitely. Personally I hate Texas. You did everything you could, just kept getting it shoved deeper into your ###. But that happens in trucking. Yes it shouldn't, but it does.
Don't know what will happen with your DAC. Probably quit under dispatch, not the end of the world. Especially since everyone needs drivers. Maybe you will get a local gig.

Your overweight concern is valid, I'm sure you'd gotten popped in Arizona at that weight. But as my esteemed colleague @scottied67 said, had you burned the fuel you'd not been over gross, unless you were near empty to begin with. No scales until you get to NM, unless Texas DPS had a portable up, so I think you would have made it, you would have needed to rescale once your tanks were running down, to see what you could have put back in.

I hate it when I can't get the truck to weigh, I've fought for hours to have someone spend 10 minutes to move one pallet, and I'm legal.
I'd never even consider going OTR with a truck that didn't have a sliding 5th wheel, I can completely understand that.

Good luck, it will work out as long as you keep trying.

What reefer?

 

I know with my current trailer a 2016 great Dane 48ft freedom lt and my 2013 mack pinnacle i am at 31800 with full tanks. I agree with @MACK E-6, the guy did what he shouldve, and shouldn't be forced to drive like this. With our older 2007 freedoms my weight with full tanks is around 32400. With one of those trailers, i would only put up to 3/4 tanks to be sure, but that is my choice

 

Meh, running with half tanks is a fact of life, at least in the reefer or van business. Think I had my first episode of that when I was only a week or two in with a trainer 11 years ago.
That's not that big of deal really.
You can either want to make something work or happen, or you don't. You adapt, you overcome, or you don't.
At Budweiser they weigh you when you come in and get every last 12 pack they can on that trailer, they are experts, same at Coke, they also have scales so you can weigh before you leave.
I think the OP got it shoved up his ###, but I also think he could have gotten-r-done had he really wanted to.

 

The baby part comes in when the OP bobtails 167 miles home and quits under the load .

 

Which is why I said it is a waste.

Ive been over gross before enough to worry if there is a scale open and reputation for enforcing weights. Quitting the way this OP Did is out of anger. Several posters took the time and trouble to write exactly what the impacts will be.

Anger burns in you for a hour. What then? You have nothing.

Sometimes when I get angry, I try to control it and think my way out of this fight, remember man can only be angry one hour. God's Wrath is eternal.

 

LOL 500 pounds is 65 gallons, you still can go an easy 600 or 700 miles between fueling. If it were me, I'd have done it, no biggy.




That was about half tanks ( 300 gallon cap ) first try after I was loaded. I was down the road, no problamo.
Like I said though, I've gone round and round with a shipper to get a pallet moved, where I've known I was not going to burn enough fuel to make it across a scale that's in my path, too early in the trip to burn the fuel.

Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda

 

@Dave_in_AZ i have joined the reefer world a couple weeks ago now.

As far as running max 5/8ths fuel daily, I have been doing that as an owner operator for 5 years. Tie me up to a tree and flog me lol. Saving almost 900 pounds off the gross weight that way and that is saving MPG's. If it helps me to scale legally that is even more better because I don't have to lose time getting worked into the que for a load re-work. Instead I'm down the road getting that much closer to getting unloaded so I can be re-loaded.

When I hire a driver I will recommend they do the same.