Tobin S.
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Tue Oct-26-10 12:22 PM
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I took off at 5:30 this morning thinking that I was ready to rock-n-roll down the road. I had a heavy load and I needed to weigh my wagon to make sure I was legal, but I didn't really think I'd have a problem. So I rolled down the road 40 miles to the nearest scale that I knew of and weighed my truck. It was 1000 pounds over on the trailer tandems. The tandems slide back and forth so you can adjust the weight on them, but I'm in California and they have something called a bridge law here.
The bridge law states that the trailer bridge between the center of your tractor tandems and the center of the front axle on your trailer tandems can be no longer than 41 feet. I already had my bridge set at the maximum legal length so I couldn't adjust my trailer tandems to compensate for the weight. The maximum legal weight on a set of set of tandems is 34,000 pounds. My trailer tandems weighed in at 35,040.
So I had to turn around and drive all the way back to LA so they could load this damn thing right or take some weight off the back. That was during the morning rush out here. I didn't make it back to the terminal until 8:30. :eyes:
No telling how long it's going to take them to correct the problem. They wanted this load in Michigan on Friday. They're going to have to get moving if they still want that to happen.
You'd think that since they have a shit load of freight to move out of California they'd have this weight distribution deal down pat. No dice, though. When I went in to the office here there was another driver in there with the same problem. But now I know where there are some scales much closer to the terminal. I hate it that I had to find out the hard way.
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CaliforniaPeggy
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Tue Oct-26-10 12:45 PM
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Oh, that just sucks!
I can imagine how upset you are...
I'm really sorry you're having to go through this...
Most of what we learn is via the hard way.......I'm sorry...
Hope you can get out of there soon!
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Tue Oct-26-10 01:17 PM
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2. May as well relax. You'll never get the time back. |
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Just enjoy the wait by talking to us lovely DUers. :)
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Tue Oct-26-10 01:18 PM
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3. Don't try missing scales by going through Sequoia Nat'l Forest |
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:rofl:
One of my most memorable trips with my dad. It seems like we needed to miss one in Fresno because of length. Dad let me "navigate." BIG mistake! lolol
We went from shorts and tank tops to snow! We made the turn onto what I *cough* thought was a state road that would work... sign read "Steep Grade next 30 miles." No way to turn around once we committed. It was 15 miles up and 15 miles down with many, many kiss your ass curves.
It was so bad that I got the "how to jump from truck as safe as possible" speech.
We blew the 2 outside trailer tires dragging the trailer around a curve... and THAT was on the way UP!!!
Scary times. In hindsight it was quite fun though. I saw a mountain lion chilling on a limb looking at us like wth? lol
Needless to say, I could no longer pick shortcuts.
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