Scaling After Loading, And Why You Should Do It

If your weight goes way over what your BOL states (even if it's still legal) - would you report that to your DM?

Rates are charged by miles/weight. A 7K over the BOL, might entitle the company to more $$ on the load.

I see this on the docks all the time. Longshoremen's Union gets paid a tonnage percentage of every container moved. And every one they move, has a BOL with the weight on it. On any given day - they find the BOL's "shorted" by 1,000's of pounds. The Crane that moves the container has a scale built in - and they note the weight differences for each container. At the end of the day, the foreman gets a copy of the load sheets - and charges the shipping company the CORRECT WEIGHT accordingly.

I'm just wondering if the companies are LOSING $$ by getting overaged on the loads, and not charging for it. Company drivers probably wouldn't give a damn, but L/O's and others that are running on a percentage would.

Rick

Many of the bols I get state that the weights are subject to correction on them.

They are straight up telling you that you can't rely on the number they give.

On a completely different, but similar note, another driver was telling me he got an overweight ticket and that the reason he didn't scale waa he didn't realize that the weights printed in the bills was in kg not pounds. So it was heavier than he thought.

I have 1 place I go that prints in kilograms. The person at the desk is nice and will convert it if you ask. I always ask, lol.

I have 1 place I go that prints in kilograms. The person at the desk is nice and will convert it if you ask. I always ask, lol.

Converting is easy. 1 kg is 2.2 lbs, so just multiply by 2.2, i.e. bills say 7800 kg, so multiply 7800 by 2.2, and you get 17160 lbs.

I agree it is easy to convert, hell, Google will even do it for you. You just have to realize it needs to be done lol

Whats a CHEP ?

CHEP is a "Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool" company that manufactures and supplies through either rental or lease agreements pallets for the retail supply chains, like Walmart, Target, U.S. Foods, Sysco, and McLane, to name a few.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHEP

As for scaling the load, I'd like to know each company's policy for scaling a load (i.e., is there a certain weight a load needs to reach before it becomes a requirement for the driver to scale it?).

Was just in Gloucester, N.J. and picked up a Del Monte banana load. Check this crap out.

1) 10 dollar truck entry fee. (Yep, to bring my truck on their property to haul their freight, I had to pay 10 bucks. Would be 30 bucks had I not had a TWIC card, or if I had a passenger who didn't have one.

2) Safety vest. If you don't have one, 5 dollar charge

I looked at the load notes and was instructed to make sure that the load is placed "single double single" because I'd most likely be over weight on my drives if I didn't. If your over weight and they have to rework..... 250.00 rework fee. (Yep, they screw up, you pay)

So....I go on the dock because it's a SLDC load. I go up to the guy and tell him "I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but I was instructed to request that you load me "single double single" his reply was "why are you telling me how to do my job?" "Go stand next to your door. "

Sounds like a typical Jersey attitude! Oh Boy........... I'm gonna get it from Rainy now!

Was just in Gloucester, N.J. and picked up a Del Monte banana load. Check this crap out.

1) 10 dollar truck entry fee. (Yep, to bring my truck on their property to haul their freight, I had to pay 10 bucks. Would be 30 bucks had I not had a TWIC card, or if I had a passenger who didn't have one.

2) Safety vest. If you don't have one, 5 dollar charge

I looked at the load notes and was instructed to make sure that the load is placed "single double single" because I'd most likely be over weight on my drives if I didn't. If your over weight and they have to rework..... 250.00 rework fee. (Yep, they screw up, you pay)

So....I go on the dock because it's a SLDC load. I go up to the guy and tell him "I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but I was instructed to request that you load me "single double single" his reply was "why are you telling me how to do my job?" "Go stand next to your door. "

Did Prime pay you back for the truck fee?

Was just in Gloucester, N.J. and picked up a Del Monte banana load. Check this crap out.

1) 10 dollar truck entry fee. (Yep, to bring my truck on their property to haul their freight, I had to pay 10 bucks. Would be 30 bucks had I not had a TWIC card, or if I had a passenger who didn't have one.

2) Safety vest. If you don't have one, 5 dollar charge

I looked at the load notes and was instructed to make sure that the load is placed "single double single" because I'd most likely be over weight on my drives if I didn't. If your over weight and they have to rework..... 250.00 rework fee. (Yep, they screw up, you pay)

So....I go on the dock because it's a SLDC load. I go up to the guy and tell him "I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but I was instructed to request that you load me "single double single" his reply was "why are you telling me how to do my job?" "Go stand next to your door. "

Did Prime pay you back for the truck fee?

I'm sure they will. The receipt was scanned in with all the paperwork