God doing all those short double hops and all that switching in a full sized sleeper cab would be a chore. You need a day cab! I like my day cab I won't give it up for anything!
Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by road_runner, Jun 21, 2013.
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Never trust what's printed on paper. That often has a mysterious way of being wrong. That tail could have 3-4000 extra pounds on it, due to unmanifested freight or shippers that lie, and we all know certainly none of them do that.
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my favorite was one day they said go get these two, big hurry (shock right, it's trucking it's always in a hurry), ok, grab them and hook up and go inside. Guy says "what order do you have them in? uhhh, 123 and 456). Oh, cuz 456 has 8000 (eight thousand) pounds in it and 123 has 800 (eight hundred),
boy, that sure would have been nice to know 20 minutes ago.
yeah, F it. it's 15 miles it's 6am on a saturday.
It didn't drive nice (really wanted to wag the dog) but pfft, take me less time to drive it then to rebuild the set.
so, 8000lbs difference the wrong way is my limit.
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I've posted it here before, and I always tell this to any new drivers I meet at work. It is a valuable piece of advice so it bears repeating.
ALWAYS scale your pups, EVERY time. If the dolly AND the rear trailer axle BOTH INDIVIDUALLY read heavier than the trailer axle, your trailers are backwards, period end of story, regardless of what's printed on any manifest.
I did a Saturday linehaul run to Richmond once. The set I took down had roughly 20k combined in both boxes. The set I was supposed to bring back, with freight out of Texas, was on paper 10k lbs lighter than the one I took down. I weighed it, and not only did I find that I had to switch the trailers, but the gross was 10k HIGHER than the load I went down with.
Turns out there was 12 unmanifested bills in what was the rear.
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We had one moron that got popped because he didn't know about only being allowed 20k on a single axle. I have zero sympathy.
Several other people did though. They took up a collection to pay his ticket. Nobody asked me because they all knew what I would've told them.
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