Your Weight Matters

On Sunday I arrived to pick up a preloaded trailer of beer. The nice lady informed me that if I couldn't get the weights legal, I'd have to leave the trailer because "it's inventory day" and nobody's available to rework the load.

So I got the trailer and proceeded to the scale. 79,800lbs. I weigh 180.

So...lose the weight. I know it isn't easy. I've struggled with it for over 40 years. I lost 50lbs within six months of getting my CDL and you can too. No more back issues or high blood pressure (though shippers try) and no worries that I will be the reason for an overweight truck.

WE WILL! RISE UP!

Hahaha this is awesome and not what I expected to see when I opened the thread.

I weighed 186 when I started school in April. Down to 172! Shooting for 165. BTW I'm only 5'8" with shoes on!

Sounds to me you could have weighed 199 more pounds and still been good.

I've got to work on mine, but....damn cinnabon.......

I think I've actually broken even so far, haven't gained or lost any, which is pretty good so far.

Have to figure out healthy eating though. I mean, I snack on apples and carrots, that should be good no?

I try to refrain from sodas, but if I do I use those sweetened with sucralose or if at worst, real sugar. I try to avoid anything with high fructose corn syrup.

High protein/fat. Very low carb. I was almost 200 lbs last Christmas. Google ketosis or keto diet. Really worked for me

Sounds to me you could have weighed 199 more pounds and still been good.

There's always that one guy... hahahaha

I've got to work on mine, but....damn cinnabon.......

I think I've actually broken even so far, haven't gained or lost any, which is pretty good so far.

Have to figure out healthy eating though. I mean, I snack on apples and carrots, that should be good no?

I try to refrain from sodas, but if I do I use those sweetened with sucralose or if at worst, real sugar. I try to avoid anything with high fructose corn syrup.

Don't eat while driving. Anything. If it's out of reach, you can't eat it. Enjoy those hunger pangs; that's your body feeding off the stored fat.

Good luck.

Quit smoking when I was in the hospital 3 months ago doing hernia surgery. Put on 20 lbs, and I'm not really eating any differently.

At one time in my life, I was 307 lbs (at 5'5" that's NO BUENO). I lost 130 lbs in 8 months doing the "Medi-Fast Diet". Takes some real dedication and willpower to not cheat.

If you're THAT CLOSE on a load - I think the extra 50 lbs on THE DRIVER ain't gonna make or break it. Siphon off (or burn off) 10 gallons of fuel. Remember - driver weight is going to be 99% ON THE STEERS (since you're forward of the fuel tanks) if we're going to get technical.

Interesting post though...

Rick

My student and I were recently at a shipper that required you to scale before they would let you leave. We were at 12060 on our steers and they wouldn't let us leave with that. It didn't matter to them that it was a legal weight for all states we were going through. So I hopped of the truck so my student could weigh again. All of a sudden we were under 12k and they let us go.