Quit DHT no notice no job

When I was a fresh green rookie, the company would send fuel solutions over the QC. A couple times the instructions were to fill the tanks, this would have been in between loads or I think one of them was a fuel solution right before delivery. So what happened in those situtations is when I got loaded I was way overweight. Then the company would say, just drop the trailer, we will send someone else to deliver it.

So I ended up sitting instead of moving, I have people depending on me to earn out here. I learned real quick not to run heavy on the fuel to jeopardize that. I had one load so heavy I had to get 50 gallons every 300 miles for an 1800 mile trip.

We didn't win WWII by being a bunch of pansies crying about having to do a little extra work.

 

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"If we forget our history we are doomed to repeat it"
Instead of fighting the Japanese in ground battle for years and years and years. we dropped the nuclear bombs killing hundreds of thousands, forcing the Japanese to surrender.

 

Killed even more firebombing Tokyo with common, garden variety type incendiaries, dead is dead, nukes or spears & slingshots, the object is to kill the enemy, by what ever means, as quickly as possible, while sparing yourself or your own forces minimal exposure to becoming a casualty.
Like you said, " if we forget ", you can bet when someone manning a radar scope, and sees what could be a large group of planes, it's never written off as a group of B17's coming from the mainland again.

 

Well you got it from 100 to 300, c'mon now, I'm thinking he could go an easy, I know I could even with 200 cap tanks, 500 or 600 miles by the time he got down to a quarter tank.
However the extra thought involved with having to calculate his fuel, could contribute to over burdening the driver.

 

I have been owner operatiing so long I forgot most of these people out here driving trucks are steering wheel holders.

 

That's what the mega's call it " overburdening the driver". If they need to know how to use a manual tranny, fill out an accurate & legal logbook, park, and corner properly, it takes away time for them to fill out 97 QC screens daily, hence they are overburdened, and crash.

 

Going back to the shipper to fix the load costs time. Time is money. Knowledge is power. Power is money. I rather show up and I rather my drivers show up with 1/2 tanks or so to virtually guarantee no problems with the weight.

Granted, some shippers overload, mistakes happen.

And still others push the maximum weight on each trailer to save a few bucks. Same thing the brokers do, same thing everyone does, it is called trying to 'get one over'.

My theory is to be able to get in there and get out legally and down the road.Perhaps 3 out of the next 5 drivers feel the same way, but 2 of the drivers want to stick to their guns and protest that their truck is x weight and the shipper is limited to putting only y weight on, or else... So shipper says, fine, we'll work you in in a few hours or in this case, the load will sit all weekend over a peeing match.