Twice Pipes
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I like Franklin's idea. The pen is mightier than the sword. TP
FedEx Freight | Overweight on City Routes
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Cab Lizzard
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The judge will say guilty pay the fine son.
At the bottom of the heap is the driver who is in charge of his truck. You know it was over weight ,you have a paper trail to show it was over. And you took it out the gate GUILTY !!!
Who ya going to call to help you if they terminate you or give you days off ??? US Marshall
At the bottom of the heap is the driver who is in charge of his truck. You know it was over weight ,you have a paper trail to show it was over. And you took it out the gate GUILTY !!!
Who ya going to call to help you if they terminate you or give you days off ??? US Marshall
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The judge will say guilty pay the fine son.
At the bottom of the heap is the driver who is in charge of his truck. You know it was over weight ,you have a paper trail to show it was over. And you took it out the gate GUILTY !!!
Who ya going to call to help you if they terminate you or give you days off ??? US Marshall
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NO COMPANY is going to require a driver to knowingly pull an over weight load...
The possible liabilities are just too severe...as mentioned. Get into an accident where there are injuries (or not) and the lawyers would have a field day. Not to mention if HazMat were involved...that alone opens a whole new set potential problems no company wants.
The financial repercussions for the company are way more severe than for the driver...albeit not as devastating. They continue in business...the driver may not.
Let a fatality be involved...game over.
No one can legally force you to pull an overweight load.
We've all done it. You, me and everyone else in this busines at some point in their career has pulled an overweight load. It is the nature of the beast. Most of the time we get away with it and nothing happens.
But the risk is there...your butt is one the line should something go wrong.
If you're SCM is turning a blind eye he/she is not doing their job. Safety should always be the number one priority.
If it isn't there is always the Motor Carrier Safety Enforcement division of your of respective state police.
No company wants to be under the microscope with these people. Once you are...it is hell to get out from under it. Add HazMat to the mix...and it is even worse. (X amount of violations and a company can lose their HazMat hauling privileges).
Corporations don't like these sort of confrontations with the gendarmes.
These enforcement types have a tendency to get the attention of the local management...and even moreso with the corporate peeps.
You have a Safety Dept.
Use them.
This is the kind of :
: they live for...they salivate over the thought of it.
Trust me on this... it works...I just left an organization that in all of its stupidity was on top of this. Just the thought of an overweight load got the machine working and things were adjusted accordingly.
And like Franklin said...document...document...document!
This is to protect your ASSets...
If they know you are writing all this stuff down...they will be less likely to try any repercussions...and if they do you will at least have some written facts to back your side of the story.
Your company will back you if you have your ducks in a row....just make sure you do
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The judge will say guilty pay the fine son.
At the bottom of the heap is the driver who is in charge of his truck. You know it was over weight ,you have a paper trail to show it was over. And you took it out the gate GUILTY !!!
Who ya going to call to help you if they terminate you or give you days off ??? US Marshall
[/quote]
NO COMPANY is going to require a driver to knowingly pull an over weight load...
The possible liabilities are just too severe...as mentioned. Get into an accident where there are injuries (or not) and the lawyers would have a field day. Not to mention if HazMat were involved...that alone opens a whole new set potential problems no company wants.
The financial repercussions for the company are way more severe than for the driver...albeit not as devastating. They continue in business...the driver may not.
Let a fatality be involved...game over.
No one can legally force you to pull an overweight load.
We've all done it. You, me and everyone else in this busines at some point in their career has pulled an overweight load. It is the nature of the beast. Most of the time we get away with it and nothing happens.
But the risk is there...your butt is one the line should something go wrong.
If you're SCM is turning a blind eye he/she is not doing their job. Safety should always be the number one priority.
If it isn't there is always the Motor Carrier Safety Enforcement division of your of respective state police.
No company wants to be under the microscope with these people. Once you are...it is hell to get out from under it. Add HazMat to the mix...and it is even worse. (X amount of violations and a company can lose their HazMat hauling privileges).
Corporations don't like these sort of confrontations with the gendarmes.
These enforcement types have a tendency to get the attention of the local management...and even moreso with the corporate peeps.
You have a Safety Dept.
Use them.
This is the kind of :
: they live for...they salivate over the thought of it.Trust me on this... it works...I just left an organization that in all of its stupidity was on top of this. Just the thought of an overweight load got the machine working and things were adjusted accordingly.
And like Franklin said...document...document...document!
This is to protect your ASSets...
If they know you are writing all this stuff down...they will be less likely to try any repercussions...and if they do you will at least have some written facts to back your side of the story.
Your company will back you if you have your ducks in a row....just make sure you do
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