Swift Flatbed Division... ?!

I'm just gonna head to the terminal in Denver when I make this delivery. Assuming I make it lol

 

Are you running up through Amarillo, then north to Limon? Winter storm warning on that route. Download the MyRadar app.

 

I did. It wasn't too bad. What I woke up to was about 2 inches of dry powder. If it was northeast bulletplate granuals of ice I would be more concerned. Just reminded me of getting fresh tracks on the mountain snowboarding, except with an overweight vehicle.

I was carrying a tcall from Lancaster. Multi stop. Some idiot got away with tcalling it and not scaling the load. The lady at the window was like no, it's only 28k no scale ticket required.

Yea, the weight of the first stop was 28k. The second was 14k. Neither of them alone need be scaled. Together I was 350 over on the drives. Thought my prepass was broken, rolling weigh station, bam. Where are your chains?

850 dollars in tickets! I had the audacity to ask for a break as I am new. Dot was like "this ticket is the break. You're lucky I don't take you OOS."

2 holes on my tandems later and I was on my way, carrying a net loss for probably the next two weeks. I knew I should have scaled that #### load. ####ty thing is that I was heading to the terminal in Denver to pick up chains right then anyway.

 

Anyway after my 10 today headed to NM with a paper live load. Says I need a 2006 or newer trailer. How do I know that sort of thing?

 

I would think there's a manufacture date somewhere on the trailer.

 

Might be a metal plate on the frame by the landing gear with the manufacturer date. Or on the trailer registration. Trailer registration "cab card" is another thing that can burn you on an inspection if you don't have it. That cab card and abs light not working are little things that kill.

 

If I'm not mistaken it should be on the registration paperwork for the trailer, every trailer should have this paperwork to my knowledge.

 

As they suggested the vin plate or the registration in that plastic bubble thing or a flat metal thing.

But here's some useful info regarding trailer #s
For dry van trailers all the ones starting with 5 are older.

The ones beginning with 10 are 2010, 11 are 2011, 12 are 2012, .........and 17 are 2017. Etc . Etc.... Get the idea?

There's one exception and that's the ones that begin with 14. They are 14 feet tall, not built in 2014.


Never assume a load in the yard is legal. Might have had different truck, different amount of fuel. Might have been an old BS scale ticket. Also Weight on the bill of lading is never to be trusted.

 

The good news is that they keep stacking me with loads. I don't bother asking via Qualcomm. Just call the 800 number and have the operator connect me with a local load planner, then I tell them what kind of load I'm looking for and in what direction.

I've gotten good at countering a stupid load offer with an even stupider ETA so they take it off of me and send me another load. Ask a stupid question...