Stood up to a shipper today

A re occurring issue and you keep going back?

There place their rules I agree you don’t have to haul it. But why sign up to knowing what their going to do?

 

When someone else's name is on the door and they're signing the paychecks..................sometimes you gotta take one for the team!

JD

 

If I own the truck I’m not taking ####. I am the team. Leased or not forced dispatch isn’t gonna work.

 

I mean, often times your dispatcher signes the rate confirmation with disclosure saying that shipper is allowed to add or subtract product within the legal weight limits. Anything booked between 45-48k you should just consider full weight.
At that level one car is like splitting hair tbh. I would be upset if I had to unstrap the thing, to make room to add, not the weight.
But than again, you wouldn’t see me loading crashed cars on my trailer.

 

Anything over 48k is negotiated before hand or they can take it off. I can haul 50k but most can’t. I charge extra for the extra weight. You should too.

Almost anything goes up to 48k but, that’s a hard break for me.

I know someone that can haul 52k on a step deck and people are always over loading him.

 

No, I don’t treat anyone like trash unless they earn it.

 

Brokers are always doing that. I had a similar situation once, with a load of hay. The guy at the farm got a stiffy when he realized I had a 53 foot flatbed and not a 48. Kept saying oh man, you're going to probably be 82k, better watch out for the scales. We had to go scale it, 8 miles from his farm for him to be able to bill his customer for the hay and I just told him straight up, nah, if I am anything over 80k, we are making the 8 mile drive back here, YOU are taking the tarp off, taking some bales off and YOU will put the tarp back on.

If that is common practice though where you are loading the cars at, if you don't NEED the headache, why deal with it to begin with?

 

It's not the same though. In one case they made a bad business decision. In the other case they are trying to cheat you.

 

That's the way to do it. They wanna add more weight, add more pay too.