The advantages of being an O/O

Was sitting in Pueblo,Co and got a load offer going from Pueblo to Dallas. Load really wasnt paying that great, but I was doing a "favor' for my FM.

I get loaded and scale out at the place and the lady inside tells me that I am over gross.

Lady: You are 80500. You need to call your dispatcher.

Six: (laugh)Why do I need to do that?

Lady: You just need to call her

So I make a call...

FM: How much fuel do you have on?

Six: Listen to me for a moment. They put 11 coils on my wagon weighing 4600 lbs. They need to take one off. If they do not take one off, theyre going to have to take all of them off.

FM: You carry alot of gear? How much can you scale?

Six: One more time, this load isnt paying enough money for any drama, or to worry about scales or anything like that. If they dont cut the order this loads coming off.

FM: Well, I cant make that call...

Six: I captain this ship.

FM: Give me a moment, I will talk to customer service

Six: Better hurry

FM: Why?

Six: Because I am leaving in 5 minutes

They cut the order. I delivered that load yesterday. A buddy of mine called me this morning and told me that he went to the same place. He was 82000. The lady told him that she wasnt going to cut the order and that he had to call his dispatcher. He told them to take it off the truck and he called his FM after they took it off. He calls me to laugh because he knew that I just loaded there.

 

oops, just noticed. Those coils were slinkies, weighing 4600 each.

They know how much the junk weighs. They scaled my empty weight in and rescaled when I was loaded. As soon as I heard "brokered load", I instantly knew that it was a cheap, heavy, crap load. Go to a shipper and see a scale and you know that youre going to loaded to the gills.

My buddy, who loaded there the day after I did, went and topped his fuel tanks off before loading. He knew that he was going to be real heavy. His load was going to Rome,Ga.