What would you do???

Thats true I picked up a relay load and dude didnt leave all the bills so I got the load and it said 12k but I found out it was 48k and some change after I hooked to it

 

I think the question on the table was did OP give right advice. I'd say he did. What advice we give may differ from what we might do ourselves. I wouldn't advise my son to do all the things I've done. That's a natural fact. I'd actually advise him against many of the things I did. Me? I'd have run that load. I wouldn't have advised anyone else to though. I know where the rocks, shallow and deep water are jumping off that bridge. I'd bet on ME making it. I wouldn't bet on telling someone else to though. Good call.

 

50 miles back, small price for stupidity, go back, your right.

 

i've found that there's only 2 choices. run or spend the night. every heavy i've hauled, have all basically waited to almost closing then they hurry up, load trailer. and LEAVE. so i know when i'm going to be heavy.

actually spent the night once. at the scale. legal for every state but oregon. and shipper wasn't happy when i rolled back in in the morning. and neither was the scale when i rolled back through in the morning. LOL.

 

Why do drivers want to risk everything for no reason. Why would you run this load? What is the big problem going back and getting it corrected? My CDL and career just isn't worth being a cowboy trucker of old and thinking you can get away with it. Just get into a small accident that wasn't your fault and you are done, done as in a nice orange suit and 300lb cell mate named 'Juicy'. The OP was right in the advice he gave, do the job right or don't do it at all.

 

Was the TN scale open on the southbound side? If so, VERY bad advice!

Run through Franklin over to the parkway, up to Owensboro. Cross the river and pick up 41 until you hit 80...hang a left and you're in the windy. Or look in your atlas and pick a different route if you want to...plenty to choose from without scales. Overweight doesn't affect CSA.

 

I think the guy was wondering if you knew a route that would bypass the scales. I get them from time to time. A few had a scale ticket with their thumb covering the gross weight and asking if they were good. Idk, people are strange.

 

This.

Not that I would ever recommend running over gross but since he pretty much put himself at a point of no return I wouldn't take it back since he had to cross a scale to get back. Don't really understand why he didn't scale in Nashville though

 

I do,pure laziness on his part why he didn't scale it sooner.Does'nt matter how long you're at the shipper and going thru rush hour traffic,it's drivers responsibility to scale it.Then I would have called my company and told them the weights.If he thinks he's pressed for time now hes going to really be pressed if a scalehouse is open.

 

Not sure if open southbound. Wasn't my job to know as I came from the south but best I recall was closed. I told him what I would do and that was take it back but never thought bout TN scale. I woulda scaled in Nashville though....I wouldn't have risked it. I worked too hard for my cdl.