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companyclown

companyclown

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What is the most weight you ever loaded in the city? Single axle day cabs and long boxes that is, not hooked sets.
I pulled a hair over 56000 with a spring ride daycab and 53' once.....that was my record. I am trying to find the scale ticket from this one....but it was close to 9000 over on the drives and 6000 over on the wagon. All this with a 40 minute ride away from the barn.
Our scm never knew......but the lbs per man hour were great.
 
companyclown said:
I never said it wa good to do, but gradually over time loaded more and more. This one made me nervous.
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Very dangerous choice, i don't think i would be telling everyone, but i guess you already have. As oldtimer said it could be your a## .Sorry, it WOULD BE YOUR A##, cause the co. would not back you if somthing would happen.I do not think you will get too many responses to this.
 
This was years ago. I guess you all missed the point. This is not common practice now. I was talking about back then b4 the big color and name change when the company would stand behind the drivers.
 
Heck....even loaded up the sets from the reships and had the front door block the window to the scale house so we could cruise by and eliminate via's.
 
Oh....Have I been voted off the island? I am not the only one to ever do this. Say what you want..but the job got done. Years of experience, I knew what I was doing. CSA 2010......not anymore.
 
this happened to me . on a friday about 1700 at a stop for a drop and hook did all paperwork 53' the freight was over 56,000# everybody just left except the head boss man he was pissed i made him strip the whole trailer and called for a second driver to come and reloaded all into two trailers found out the person who loaded the trailer got fired by the way their is a d o t scale house that i would be going through and yes they was open so an i going to get busted for over weight heck no
 
companyclown said:
What is the most weight you ever loaded in the city? Single axle day cabs and long boxes that is, not hooked sets.
I pulled a hair over 56000 with a spring ride daycab and 53' once.....that was my record. I am trying to find the scale ticket from this one....but it was close to 9000 over on the drives and 6000 over on the wagon. All this with a 40 minute ride away from the barn.
Our scm never knew......but the lbs per man hour were great.
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I had approx 40,000 in a pup .. the bol said 20,000 approx. I got back to the barn and I was 5300 over on my drives and 7500 over on trailer. I was pretty green at the time. The freight was steel rods in steel bins. 12 bins. I was told later on that each bin weighed a minimum of 3000 a piece.
 
Alot of us went above and beyond in the ( old days). I did too. It's a different day now. You gotta watch what you say and do.i know what your sayin clown. my vote says you stay,I'll go.LOL.
 
ive had over 40,000 in a 48'...yes there was a scale and well theres always a way around...heck back in the day we use to do p/u's and our trailers would look like breakers when we got finished...
 
Remember, single axle tractor and a tandam axle 53' or 48' trailer max gross weight is 60,000 lbs not 80,000 lbs. When I was working for a hazmat carrier a highway patolman told me that 2500 lbs over gross with hazmat with any weight can send you to jail. Just food for thought.
 
Atleast folks are starting to be honest. I do not condone or encourage people to do this, but when pick ups need to be made....you either get them or let the competition get it. That was my way of thinking. I have hauled heavy for years and just know what a trucker is capable of. Anybody ever haul flat steel with coils on top???
 
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