Where Are You Continues, Again.....

Well, so much for that guy's well earned vacation. You slave driver !

 

Stopping every 200 miles.... Yeah... been there... done that...
One time, shipper's scale showed that each axle was fine, so I left the plant but a little skeptical cause I don't trust much shippers' scales...
Closest truck stop with scale was 100 miles away.... and it showed 34,120 lbs or so on my drives with a little less than 3/4 of full tanks... That was in OK...
Since I have an APU, I get a 400 lbs exemption on my drives... only 4 or so states don't recognize that exemption... one of them being CA and I was going to CA...
So, I kept my tanks' levels where they were, not filling my tanks completely each time I fueled... and before I arrived in CA I had to keep only 1/4 of tank full not to exceed 34,000 lbs on my drives... Kinda of a pain...

 

And one more thing... the problem is when there's no truck stop with scales nearby the shipper.... closest one being over 50 miles away... I know the maximum weight the truck can legally take... but sometimes... I may fill up the tanks and pick up the load... and when I get to a scale, find out I am overweight on one axle and can't get all axles legal... and have to go back to shipper...
My company does pay us for the extra miles in this case... but if it's late and/or a Friday and the shipper will be closed...
So... sometimes I have to consider if it will be easier to have my tanks totally full before picking up a heavy load...
My experience with heavy loads is that when the load is very heavy but there are only a few pieces, it's not easy to get legal on all axles... unless the shipper cut the load short of re-arrange that...
I just hate very heavy loads....

 

Ok.. time for some more cooking here...

 

Hereford
just kinda hanging out..

 

Ok..... and what else do you have with that pork tenderloin...?

 

I cooked brown rice, brown beans... and now making a stew of potatoes, beets, chayote squash with onions and garlic and herbs and spices...