Weighty Issue

And don't forget, if you have fueled since you weighed, you just added the weight of the fuel.

 

correct me if im wrng but a gallon of fuel weighs about 8.5lbs or something like that

 

I went to august Martin hs I heard they closed it

 

do you like to drive? I mean all day ? 10-11 hrs every day. live in a truck and visit your house, not shower everyday. if your in the a/c all you really don't need one, but some have hygiene issues. as in EEWWW ,I got to have a shower and wash my hair twice a day. wwaaaaa !.lol.
it ain't rocket science , but can be nerve wracking. being as your a city boy,lol,(I grew up north of you,Germantown,NY). driving in the mountains can quite intimidating, especially in winter.
BUT, it is an adventure like no other. I went from management to driving to help a friend out and haven't looked back.
still enjoy the highway driving, hate city driving and NO NORTHEAST for me !!!!

 

the city boy part was an inside joke,(I think). upstate to NYC. lol. no offense intended. didn't know if you were like some I've met who have never out of the city and are in their 40's !!!!they said why leave,got everything here.

helped out a guy that knew I had driven a snow plow in Wyo,back in the '70s. he needed a 6 wheeler,(box truck) driver. I stayed and moved to the big ones.

moved down here looking for jobs. weren't any up there in early '80s

 

TruckerTed, I did not see that episode yet, but my guess is that his company scales were not properly calibrated, or the state scale may have had ice/snow built up on it causing it to read heavier than it was.
Also, if i rememeber correctly, at the Carlisle yard, it's scale give the driver the "gross" weight of the truck. A state scale usually gets each axles weight, and the gross. He may have been over weight on one or more of his axles, which he would not have known by going on the company scale. That is most likely the culprit here.