Overweight Tickets
Topic 34194 | Page 1
Every bill of leading has a weight for the freight. If that BOL weight is over 30,000, double check. It it bumps up, or is over. 45,000, check with your dispatcher.
Since you mention taking loads from a terminal , does your terminal have a scale? It's either somewhere on site, or even you drive over it when you head out.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Dispatcher:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Bottom line is, it is the driver hooked to the trailer and in possession of the BOL that is responsible. As a company driver, I would run to the scale EVERY TIME, and that "30 miles out of route" needs to be built into the rate being charged, especially if they are heavy loads anyway, as Errol suggested.
Our terminal does not have a scale on site
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Not all bills have weight.. produce being an example. I usually ask the loaders... bananas are 2,000 pounds a pallet.. broccoli is much lighter..our trucks and trailers have Rightweigh so we can more accurately slide tandems.
The driver is respnsible.. but the company's CSA score will be affected also.
As a driver, I wouldn't want to work at a company who knows there is an issue with a shipper and doesn't correct it. Why is the company not contacting this shipper to load properly?
Some states may allow the driver to return to the shipper for rework. Others may require the company send another truck and have some product off loaded.
Are we talking tandem overage or 80,000 pounds overage?
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
CSA:
Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
The CSA is a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) initiative to improve large truck and bus safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities that are related to commercial motor vehicle
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For company drivers: We have a lot of loads that come into our terminal that are not weighted because there is no scale between the pick up location and our terminal. If a driver takes one of these loads and get a overweight ticket before they reach the delivery location, who should pay the ticket? The closest scale it our terminal is 30 miles, and we just can not have every outgoing load go 30 miles off route to get weighted.
Also, who should pay the ticket if the inbound load passed a scale and the driver did not get it weighted?
Thanks for you comments.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.