What are you thoughts on hauling overweight out of the quarry?

The way my mind works:

Information is never free. If management wants to talk to me, something’s wrong. Your instincts are almost always correct. From your post, I gather that the manager recognizes that you know the job, do the job well AND you are CONSISTENT.

High compliment!


However….you are “feeling” a certain way about the job now. Manipulation? What do you do?

Don’t react. Keep doing exactly what you were doing before and act as if the conversation never happened. The operations manager will be watching. Do not speak to anyone you work with about anything job related. “Hi” and “bye” only. People talk.


“But Six, I am paranoid about this job now.”

Don’t be. Rock solid, knowledgeable CONSISTENT drivers are rare. They’d have to be serious fools to cut an A Game Driver. Keep doing the job exactly like you have been. You have a strong hand. Manager is hoping that you “feel” the need to comply and fold.


Luck in battle.

 

At least he didn't ask you to drop the trailers on the scale to get your weight ticket.

Yes, the powers are putting the lean on you.

 

Who pays the ticket? Company pays the ticket I’d load however they want.

 

Get that in writing.

I got burned by a company that said they would pay OW tickets. A year after the ticket, my license was suspended. Had to go to the county court, pay the fines, then go to the capital to get my CDL reinstated, then go to my local DMV to retest on the written parts of the CDL and all endorsements. This was mid 90’s so the process has probably changed. I changed too, because now I want double rate.

 

Company may pay the ticket, but if the company forgets to pay in time it's the driver that is parked or worse.
https://oversize.io/regulations/oversize-overweight-fines-by-state/

 

What I have done to avoid having the difficult moment with management that might ask me to drive illegally is during the conversation that might lead to being asked to run outlaw BUT BEFORE THEY ASK ME is I tell them about a friend of mine that worked for this bottom of the barrel company that asked him to do something illegal, and then tell them how proud I was my friend said "no", and end the story by saying it sure is good to work for a company like ABC Trucking that never asks me to run as an outlaw, It makes the point I wanted to make without having to tell the dispatcher to go pound sand. Then they know don't ask him to run outlaw. Mostly this is best handled by choosing where to work so you never have that conversation because they won't ask anyone to run outlaw. Companies can change over time, so it can happen at good companies.

 

Unpopular opinion here probably, but if you haven’t done dump you won’t understand, If you aren’t heavy, you aren’t making money, a lot of places have actually gone to no overweight outbound and will sit you off to the side for “time out” for a couple hours if you come in more then 10k overweight.

I really don’t ever want to see a bucket in my mirror ever again…

Oh, and you will get either starved out until you quit, or fired for something stupid, and someone will come in and do it, for less money

 

A couple of questions...Are you paid by the ton, on a percentage basis, or are you hourly?
Is there any financial incentive for you to run heavy?
Are you losing loads each day because of the time taken to trim your load?
Do you cross state scales after you leave the quarry?
Did the operations person you talked to initiate the conversation and was there any other reason for your talk?
Right or wrong, if you're "one of the few" you're going to stick out like a sore thumb.
In rock hauling the pressure is always on to get as much tonnage every day as you can. Don't let them guilt you into ruining your driving record.