Rookies, What Would You Do?
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i asked on of my instructors the question he said he call his DM and said h would not move the load unless he got a quallcomm message sating he would pay the fine and it wouldn't go on his dac lol.
Dm:
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.DAC:
Drive-A-Check Report
A truck drivers DAC report will contain detailed information about their job history of the last 10 years as a CDL driver (as required by the DOT).
It may also contain your criminal history, drug test results, DOT infractions and accident history. The program is strictly voluntary from a company standpoint, but most of the medium-to-large carriers will participate.
Most trucking companies use DAC reports as part of their hiring and background check process. It is extremely important that drivers verify that the information contained in it is correct, and have it fixed if it's not.
I drive a dedicated route averaging 10-20 stops delivering tires. So if I am overweight on an axles I can get back in that trailer and do whatever I want to the load even before leaving the distributor. Twice now I have taken a tire out of the trailer and stuck the thing in the sleeper while driving.
The trailer initially comes sealed and the gate guard checks it before heading out, no one else cares about the seal. Even if I had to break the seal before leaving it would be fine. The gate guard would be like "WTF Justin!" but then he would just wave me on by. That is the nice thing about working a dedicated route, after a while you get to know everyone.
Dedicated Route:
A driver or carrier who transports cargo between regular, prescribed routes. Normally it means a driver will be dedicated to working for one particular customer like Walmart or Home Depot and they will only haul freight for that customer. You'll often hear drivers say something like, "I'm on the Walmart dedicated account."
TWIC:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential
Truck drivers who regularly pick up from or deliver to the shipping ports will often be required to carry a TWIC card.
Your TWIC is a tamper-resistant biometric card which acts as both your identification in secure areas, as well as an indicator of you having passed the necessary security clearance. TWIC cards are valid for five years. The issuance of TWIC cards is overseen by the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
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i asked on of my instructors the question he said he call his DM and said h would not move the load unless he got a quallcomm message sating he would pay the fine and it wouldn't go on his dac lol.
Yep, there really isn't an answer but it's just an opinion of what you should do. There's no right and wrong answer.
And you won't catch an instructor telling you it's okay to break the law. Doesn't surprise me that he said that.
Dm:
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.DAC:
Drive-A-Check Report
A truck drivers DAC report will contain detailed information about their job history of the last 10 years as a CDL driver (as required by the DOT).
It may also contain your criminal history, drug test results, DOT infractions and accident history. The program is strictly voluntary from a company standpoint, but most of the medium-to-large carriers will participate.
Most trucking companies use DAC reports as part of their hiring and background check process. It is extremely important that drivers verify that the information contained in it is correct, and have it fixed if it's not.
There may not be a right or wrong answer but there sure as heck is an illegal versus legal answer. It is interesting to me that you chose the illegal answer, when the legal answer would be to adjust the load. If we are going to post what-if situations it seems to me the only right answer would be the legal one. So imho there is a right answer, though it might not be the one that works in the real world, legal=right and I am finding out just how much of trucking is done illegally, especially here where I work now. Real world versus classroom is, unfortunately, about as different as night and day.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
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I just had a similar situation a couple days ago. I picked up a load from Americold in Clearfield, UT. I'm sure you had to have been there at least once during your tenure at Central. Anyway, the load was heading to Tracy, CA. When I weighed it at the Flying J in Ogden, it came out at 34140 on the tandems at the 6th hole. Being that the trailer was one of the few Interstate has that doesn't have the 40' mark emblazoned on the side of the trailer, I slid the tandems back 1 hole and ran with it. The weighmaster at the scale house/agricultural inspection station going across Donner either didn't notice or didn't care, and the only other scale outside of Sacramento was closed. No harm, no foul.
There was one load I picked up...god, must be almost 2 years ago now, from the Americold in Burley, ID. When I weighed it at the Love's in Heyburn, it came out at 11840 steers, 34040 drives, 34020 tandems, 79900 gross. Had to run that bad boy all the way to Fort Atkinson, WI. All I can say is thank god I was already full on fuel. Yeesh.
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".
Interstate:
Commercial trade, business, movement of goods or money, or transportation from one state to another, regulated by the Federal Department Of Transportation (DOT).
There may not be a right or wrong answer but there sure as heck is an illegal versus legal answer. It is interesting to me that you chose the illegal answer, when the legal answer would be to adjust the load. If we are going to post what-if situations it seems to me the only right answer would be the legal one. So imho there is a right answer, though it might not be the one that works in the real world, legal=right and I am finding out just how much of trucking is done illegally, especially here where I work now. Real world versus classroom is, unfortunately, about as different as night and day.
That's trucking, you going to go back to the shipper and spend hours waiting to get your load fixed for 40 pounds? Have you ever drove 56 in a 55 mph speed zone? That's illegal too.
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.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Was looking forward to that answer all day...lol. Glad I was on the right track...and it all makes sense to me.
Keep in mind that I gave my opinion. 40lb over is nothing and waiting hours to get it reworked is pointless. Now if it was 400lb over then I would obviously get it reworked.
Keep in mind, the faster you get it over with the faster you get to move on. My next load was actually a 1800 mile load with very little time on it. If I spent two hours getting my load reworked then I would be two hours behind and they wouldn't have given me my 1800 mile load because i would be late for the pickup and most likely the delivery.
The top tier drivers do what it takes to get the job done. I don't encourage bending the rules but realize that every experienced trucker has broken more rules than they care to admit - especially those from the paper log days like Brett, Guyjax, and Starcar.
Dm:
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.HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I'd call and wake you up to ask your opinion and what I should do and then just run with it in the 13th hole
Ken
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