What to do in this situation?

Clearly, you have no idea how hauling paper rolls works.

 

Yeah, they asked me if I could go back to where I was loaded to get it fixed, but traveling 2 hrs with multiple weigh stations in between sounds a bit dangerous. Hopefully they can get something set up tomorrow, but I'm assuming it won't work until Monday

 

Yeah, I saw that mat, which is what made me think of it. Luckily, where I get rolls is so nonchalant about doing things with care. Haha.

 

Explain mr box jockey

 

8 k over weight is not going to hurt a thing stay away from scales

 

Most paper loads are preloaded and sealed, so there is no securement opportunity. It’s why we have suspension air gauges, so we can at least be close on our axle weights, without being able to see how the rolls are loaded.

Most of these shippers, you’re not allowed inside the building. If you are allowed inside, you sit in a cage on some nasty old chair, while they load/unload you.

You have zero say in how those rolls are loaded. You better not say a thing to these people who work in such a filthy and sweaty environment, doing obligatory overtime, with many doing it 7 days a week.

Traffic signals vary, all over this country. There’s no possible way to predict their timing. I’m guessing you’re telepathic or something?

Sometimes, situations are out of one’s control and the brakes (<correct spelling, btw) have to be used harder than we’d like. Crap happens, just like in my example above. I had my cruise set, minding my own business. I can’t predict someone pulling a last second stunt. I can’t always be ahead of the truck’s collision mitigation system’s reaction to them. As soon as I saw them shooting across, the collision mitigation already engaged, I immediately slammed the accelerator pedal to the floor to disengage the system. By then, my rolls were already slid. I know, you’re telepathic and already knew what they were going to do, though.

Get over yourself, dude. You’re not all that. No one is. All we can do is our best. Again, crap happens.

 

The ones I hauled were a little over 3,000 pounds per roll. I had 14 rolls on.

 

I saw a trucker once with those giant paper rolls and I’ve hauled them myself a few times... His front axle weight was over by about 1000 pounds. Needed to move those rolls back about a foot. Put his truck in reverse and slam the brakes on and it did the trick. No joke. Those things don’t topple over very easy. You must have really braked hard. I’d be real careful how you secure that thing if it’s inside a dry van I assume. Those things are unbelievably heavy and if it rolls around in there you could easily go right through the side of that trailer.

 

What I haul are 5500#, which is 8 rolls to a load. The ones the OP is hauling look to be similar. The company we are contracted to use the same rolls in most of their plants we haul in/out of, because they all use similar production lines. If a production line goes down in one plant, they can simply bring in product from another plant; interchangeability of raw product.