Comments By Chris eff

Doing orientation with western express. Looking forward to being back on the road!

Being let go was for something else id only rather dicuss with employers. The incident wasnt an accident or inspection or ticket.

My preventable was for parking on the side of the road and then the truck sinking. I got out no damage no tow. Then i got an overweight axle scale ticket.

Someone told me things happen in threes. Well i got a preventable... then an overweight ticket and then lost my job. I can be more descriptive if anyone wants to talk but for now im looking for companies to drive for after six months experience at US Xpress. Just looking for advice on companies if anyone has any. Looking to hit all 48 states.

Just a heads up, we have a member here who got points for not prooerly logging his fuel time. Rainy, was he using paper logs?

Carrying cash now. Its very upsetting knowing $8 to scale turned into this, but like you guys said im moving on.

This past weekend i made some careless choices. I got an overweight ticket carrying a heavy load from proctor n gamble. 45,000 pounds of weight.

My employer gave me a verbal about making sure to scale and im like okay of course. I missed the part about it being a CASH ONLY SCALE on site.

My employer also said dont leave without scaling.

So i get there and find out that it cash only and because my time was running out and i didn't have cash i said lets scale later the clock is running down. I slid my tandems as far forward as they would go thinking it would help. Later that night i get to loves and its one of the smallest loves you've seen haha maybe five or ten parking spots down in Louisiana. Get my fuel. Once again times running down, its late im getting tired but going to run the clock dry. Scaling slips my mind im concerned about getting as far as i can. Drive a few more hours shut down for the night and next day get pre-pass red light for scale. Attendant says shut off truck bring necessary things in (the usual list, bol, license, registration etc logs.)

Im 2,000lbs overweight on rear axle.

Recieve a level 2 walk around as well and no dot sticker is on the right side of cab. They ask me to slide tandems and re scale. At this point tandems wonts slide. I even tried using a rock to stop them. Eventually they leave and another driver has a chock.

I slide my tandems make sure its okay to leave and go scale. With my tandems almost all the way back im still 40lbs overweight. With 200 miles left and no scales to destination i just go. My company says they will pay both violations but i have to pay them back.

Besides being angry with my self and the whole situation im anxious to how much this ticket will be. I got it in Missouri and im reading online like 13cents per pound over. Also this only goes on my csa correct and for how long?

I owned up but it says preventable accident. No tow, no damage to truck just some rutts^^. And they have other marks like this along their property. I had to pass them twice within the last 24 hours to drop off and pick up. Even the asphalt at the intersection has rutts in it. Apparently the road is just as weak at some points.

So i parked on the side of the road bobtail to retrieve info. Driver's side tires on pavement passenger side on gravel and dirt. The truck started sinking and i started to get stuck but i was able to get out. I sunk maybe 6 or 8 inches pretty deep. Any way someone took pictures and my company called about it we talked it out but no one told me it was a preventable. I had to find out by mail. I dont feel like its a preventable. By looking at the side of the road you can see that trucks stop there all the time because the grass isn't growing.

So if i get a cb is there a certain channel dedicated to weather?

What I do is stay tuned to the weather. 1) My CB has weather band, and alerts. 2) Road dog trucking has weather updates 3) for the state I'm driving in, I look at the 511app.

If it gets too bad, I just shut down until conditions improve. (Just had to shut down on Wednesday, due to the snow in Iowa. 35n was a fuster cluck, until I got to 90. )