Originally Posted by Hawkjr
(Post 449782)
Well as some or most might know i'm a dedicated driver for Schneider for Wal Mart Freight.. Apparently we have these New Hampshire/Maine System Runs, which consit of deadheading 163 miles to Suffolk VA, Picking up an Loaded Orange Box, Go 600 + miles north to Raymond New Hampshire, Drop and Hook, Leave Into Maine go pick up a load of water in either Hollis Center ME or Poland Springs ME and deliver to various Points then a load back to VA.. Sounds all great right.. 1700 miles or more in four or less days...
Every thing was going pretty well i guess i can say, got to go thru NYC (even tho it was night) Various point's in CT, so on and on.. Then comes the last leg of the load, I pick up a load of Water in Breinigsville PA at the Nestle Plant, pick up every thing looks decent, but when i closed the doors i notice there was two more pallets than the last load of water i picked up in Maine, the load from Maine was close enough over weight but just barely and these were basically the same two loads (from the looks of it seem like the same 16 oz bottles).. so the nearest scale is 25 miles away, i got scale the load to find out that its 10,500 on the Steers, 32,930 on the Drive's and you ready for this one.. 36,380 on the Trailer!! The gross was 79900 now once i find this out and i come to the conclusion that even if i do slide the trailer axles foward it will be 600-800 pounds over weight on each axle except for the steers.. now if your asking why don't i move the fifth wheel, well this truck doesn't have a sliding fifth wheel..
Now i'm 25 miles away and when i got to the truck stop (some Dump in Coopersburg PA) my 14 hr clock was over and couldnt go no where, so i called my so called office, and told them of the issue.. Since this was a system load and not a wal mart load they couldn't do nothing much about it, so my home office called the dispatcher of this load and told him of the issue, i told the person i spoke to at my home office to call me back regardless to inform me of what was going on.. i go to my truck go to sleep and wake up in 4 hours and no miss calls?? WTF? so i call my home office back and talk to the guy i talk to, he claims "TJ" said he was going to take care of it and never called him back.. So he says hes going to call him again, he says he calls and didn't get no answer, so again i'm like WTF?? so i say bump it once my 10 is over with i'll go back up there, so i go inside blah blah blah, i tell them what this deal is all and that and show him the Scale Ticket, some woman in a smart ass way says, "he's not even over loaded" so some guy in a safety vest comes to the window and tell's me there's nothing they can do until 7 AM in the morning because being over weight is not are problem and since I'm not over gross weight it's still not there problem... so i pull out the gate mad and frustrated and like a complete dumb ass which might cost me my job didn't swing out wide enough and bent the wheel on the rim of the Trailer Tire on a curb..
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