FedEx Freight | Overweight load

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Went to Nashville terminal to pickup a load for the customer y'all consolidate for and it weighed 62000 lbs according to the manifest. I figured it was a billing error and hooked to it. Ran it across the scale and it was 11500/on the steer and 36900 on the drives and 44500 on the trailer tandems. I ain't gripeing just couldn't believe it. Dropped that load on the dock told the redshirt about it and grabbed another one.
 
We have several switch accounts that load us overweight every day. I have brought it to the attention of leadership many times, and nothing has been done about it. They told me they would educate the customers regarding proper loading for single axle tractors, but I believe nothing has ever been said to the customer because leadership doesn't want to rock the boat. One customer in particular is a very large account, and when I say large, I mean large, we pull 12-25 full 53 footers from their place every day, and I would venture to say 80% are illegal on weight.
 
Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but.....
When someone says I picked up the load y'all consolidated, instead of the load we built, little alarms start going off. Could this be a PT driver whining because we are outsourcing too much work to him?

If it is, Dick has a message for him and the horse he rode in on.
 
Nope Dick that's where you are wrong. Get your facts straight before your fingers do the typing. My company comes to your terminal in Nashville and picks up our freight. I pull for Peyton's. Y'all haul it from all over your system and consolidate it. We pick it up on our trailers from you and deliver to our customer. This is called consolidation. Thats how it works. I am not pt I pull my own company's freight. You couldn't handle all the loads we pull from Nashville to Portland or Cleveland Tn.
 
It is usually lack of attention or training of the part time dock workers but it could involve full time dock workers too. I have scaled 48's with 30,000 on the single drive axle and had them reload it. Heck I even had a 29,000 & 25,000 pup to pull as a set before.
 
That's pretty insane weight for a tandem-tandem. I'm not up on TN state regs, but here in ON we could legally scale a load like that if it was on a 53 with a tridem or quad setup. Max gross here is I believe 120,000lbs.
 
I stopped by GSP one night to pick up a load on the way back from ATL, dropped my empties to pick up a G van (single axle) had 34K plus on the trl according to the manifest! Road over the scales, put it back to the door, grabbed my empty pups back and kept on truckin!!!
 
I stopped by GSP one night to pick up a load on the way back from ATL, dropped my empties to pick up a G van (single axle) had 34K plus on the trl according to the manifest! Road over the scales, put it back to the door, grabbed my empty pups back and kept on truckin!!!
Good call :1036316054:
 
We have several switch accounts that load us overweight every day. I have brought it to the attention of leadership many times, and nothing has been done about it. They told me they would educate the customers regarding proper loading for single axle tractors, but I believe nothing has ever been said to the customer because leadership doesn't want to rock the boat. One customer in particular is a very large account, and when I say large, I mean large, we pull 12-25 full 53 footers from their place every day, and I would venture to say 80% are illegal on weight.
Don't want to bust up your party here, but from reading this remember 1 thing. Anything happens, accident, your fault or not, you decided to pull that load out on public highways. Once the lawyers get it in court, you and your company will pay the price. It does not matter what your supervisor told you to do, you made the final decision and will be named in the lawsuit. You know the weight limits in your state or you would not have that CDL. Be careful. Cover your backside.
 
Don't want to bust up your party here, but from reading this remember 1 thing. Anything happens, accident, your fault or not, you decided to pull that load out on public highways. Once the lawyers get it in court, you and your company will pay the price. It does not matter what your supervisor told you to do, you made the final decision and will be named in the lawsuit. You know the weight limits in your state or you would not have that CDL. Be careful. Cover your backside.
Amen! That's why I took back off the scale and put it on the dock and told them to strip it and load on two trailers.
 
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