And This Is Why You Pay Attention

So last night I show up to a drop and hook at Nestle in Anderson, IN...........well that turned into an 8 1/2 hour live load:/ After they finished loading me it was 3am so I just drove to their bull pen and slept. Woke up late qnd ran down to the Pilot x214 scaled and grabbed my ticket. In my haste to jump in the shower I just glanced at my ticket, everything appeared to be in order so I showered and went about my day. Until I got to an IL scale in which I scaled out at 36220 on my tandums:/ (max weight 34000)! I got pulled in and went back to produce my scale ticket which also said 36220! Wtf was I thinking this morning? I just about burst into tears! So the very nice officer said honey dont cry. Why dont you use the bathroom, grab some coffee, go slide your tandums and ill give you a warning. I coulda kissed him.

Ya got lucky if that were oh or ga they woulda gave ya a ticket for sure,now va ive noticed are very leanient on that type of stuff as long as ur not over gross

Sometimes it pays to have big brown eyes....or big blue eyes....as long as your a lady !!!! I'm a trucker...but I'll play that "missy" card when I have to....

Sometimes it pays to have big brown eyes....or big blue eyes....as long as your a lady !!!! I'm a trucker...but I'll play that "missy" card when I have to....

i tried the hey sweet pee trick on a dot officer in ga dang she wrapped me one heck of a ticket for bein over weight,then to top it off she looks at the pc and says all ya poor thing this is ur first over weight ticket.i looked her dead in the eye and said thats more the reason not to give it to me sweetie.and wouldnt ya know it i got the whole run down of this would be doin ya a great injustice if i ddnt.

Wow, what a lucky break, eh?

It's soooooo hard to stay on top of every detail out there at all times. You let your attention slip for even a moment and suddenly you're in a mess. And obviously that doesn't just apply to driving.

And you also have to be great at letting things go and forgetting about em. Sometimes, like in this case, that's the only helpful thing you can do...smile, shrug your shoulders, thank your lucky stars that everything turned out great in the end, and continue on with your day.

Glad to hear it worked out for ya!

When these big blues tear up you pretty much will regret whatever ya did to make me cry:) I know I was very lucky. I was already upset before I stopped (all that personal stuff ya know) but that just about sent me over the edge. He tild me hes seen folks with scale tickets come in with 39000 on their tandums. Like I told him I know he has to do what he has too and he told me since its a holiday he was gonna give me a choice warning or ticket. Well ya know Im not crazy:) Well not much lol I blame it on my natural blond status and kept it moving. He was even nice enough to shout out my weights when I rescaled:) I chalked it up to a rookie mistake and learned from it. That's all ya can do:-)

We did something like that last week on a relay we picked up. My co driver noticed it when we went through a scale and saw the tandems were at 36 on one where your weight is displayed on a board. To top it off, they green lighted us through. I think they were talking in the scale house and not paying attention. We hit the next truck stop, slid the tandems and scaled it and went on down the road.

I almost did it with this load. It is over 45,000 pounds.

First weigh...Steer = 11,160 Drives=35,000 Tandems=32,900

Reweigh....Steer=11,300 Drives=33,200 Tandems=34,620

Second Reweigh...Steer=11,540 Drives=34,100 Tandems=33,440

I decided that it was good enough. If I adjusted it again, I wod probably be overweight on the trailer tandems. Luckily, all the scales were closed.

Dave

When these big blues tear up you pretty much will regret whatever ya did to make me cry:) I know I was very lucky. I was already upset before I stopped (all that personal stuff ya know) but that just about sent me over the edge. He tild me hes seen folks with scale tickets come in with 39000 on their tandums. Like I told him I know he has to do what he has too and he told me since its a holiday he was gonna give me a choice warning or ticket. Well ya know Im not crazy:) Well not much lol I blame it on my natural blond status and kept it moving. He was even nice enough to shout out my weights when I rescaled:) I chalked it up to a rookie mistake and learned from it. That's all ya can do:-)

My wife is the same way! She can get a receiver to accept us early 90% of the time. She once got a receiver to accept us a day early. It pays to be a blonde in trucking. She's a huge advantage haha!

Dave, I was in the same situation. I was 80 over on my drives and nothing I could have done about it. I checked where the weigh stations were and they were quite far away so until that weigh station I was just extra aggressive on the accelerator to try to burn the fuel. It was a short 300 mile night load.

Dave, I was in the same situation. I was 80 over on my drives and nothing I could have done about it. I checked where the weigh stations were and they were quite far away so until that weigh station I was just extra aggressive on the accelerator to try to burn the fuel. It was a short 300 mile night load.

I was at around half a tank when I scaled. I decided to burn off the excess weight also. Mine was a short run as well. Yours wasn't a tea run from Edison, New Jersey, to a Sheetz DC in PA was it?

Dave