Quit DHT no notice no job

This is basically the guts of a long thread.

End of story.

Good luck OP.

 

What did you want him to do? Drive with the overweight load and get nailed at the weight station, drivers like you do anything unsafe and illegal to keep a job and earn trust from your dm not to offense though.

 

I would've dropped that load in the dock until it was reworked
And told the company pay me detention or I'm going home
.... This is not welfare, why would a driver be expected to do anything free ?

 

I don't have a problem with expecting a driver to be smart enough not to top off their tanks before going to the shipper for a known heavy load. Especially a Friday load where you might lose the whole weekend because the dock crew wants to go home early. Sometimes the driver needs to think about 'if I do this, this this or that might happen'.

 

Who is DM ? , never heard of him .

 

The problem with heavy pallets in the 6 foot area and a near gross load is bridge law. I can't think of a situation where I was ever able to be legal weight wise and also be legal bridge law wise with pallets in the 6 foot area. I have lost count of the times I had to either violate bridge law or be over on weight on that trailer tandem. Fuel even in the reefer tanks won't help you on this much. For the most part that last 6 foot on a 53 foot trailer is unusable. After a while you get used to this and just start keeping it clear.