Forget good weight tickets. Show me your bad ones.
Posted by Johnny_Rascal2@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 40 comments
Gonna have to slide the axles a little for this one.
RepresentativeTank83@reddit
87k hauling soil contaminated with chlordane (pesticide) from Fort Lee, NJ to Sauget, IL. Generator swore he didn’t pack the cans, you could see the bucket prints. Tarped it, called the office, they said he’s fixing the dozen others he has whether he likes it or not, do I feel like I could get the one already on my back to the receiver? Sure.
Dodged the scales using the Rand McNally to pick exits that would put me off and on at least two away from the scales, then shouted a Hail Mary question on the CB when I had to choose 55 or 255…thank fuck someone answered, imagine getting caught that far over with placards, because I wasn’t.
Guy’s face when I pulled onto the receiving scale was priceless. Asked me how I pulled it off after whiplashing himself about three times, I just held up the atlas.
I might’ve fallen off the step and bumped my head on the mirror arm, but thankfully my head is hard enough to keep what little grey matter I possess unaffected.
bobsanidiot@reddit
I don't have a pic but I had one that was over 93k lmao. Found out on the receivers scale, thank God I didn't run by a dot scale on that run, cause I had no idea I was heavy, hauled that same load dozens of times and never was over 78k.
Jermaphobe456@reddit
Mill-man loaded up my lead with 120K of asphalt millings on scale-out.
Suffice to say he didn't load anyone else heavier than 103K after that incident
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
104,180lbs. https://imgur.com/a/E3ciKZr
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
How did you manage that?
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
Tanker. That’s not even overweight in my state. I could’ve loaded more but I was paid by the hour not gallon so no reason to top off.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
Running in Michigan and the Dakotas is cheating. I want to see illegal weights.
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
I’m in WA. And I wouldn’t post running overweight. I allegedly have never been overweight not even for my dot physical. 😂
pyratelyfe4me@reddit
Who u drive for ?
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
Used to drive for Superior. Left them for KAG. No longer hauling fuel though.
pyratelyfe4me@reddit
Superior lol i always am Blowing yalls doors off same w kag . Slow hourly drivers
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
Superior sucks. They pay good but work you to death and hire idiots. Heard it’s getting really bad. Buddy sent me a pic of one of their guys who got hit by a train at p66 Tacoma. lol
pyratelyfe4me@reddit
Yeah right dude those superior guys are not working to death they might work 50 hrs a week
Specific_Island_6327@reddit
When I was there I was easily getting 60-65hrs. Who you drive for? Don’t say Alpha those guys are clowns too.
pyratelyfe4me@reddit
Nah not alpha
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
I guess every state between Minnesota and the pacific ocean has 100,000lbs+ gross weights, don't they.
chico-dust@reddit
I don't have photos (it was back in the day) but the worst I've ever had was picking up at a concrete factory.
It was
12,000 36,000 38,000
They didn't even pretend to try and make it legal
HighwayStar71@reddit
That's fixable. Maybe 14 holes back? I don't like to run with the tandems all the way back but sometimes you have to.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
It's not fixable on 5 axles. And definitely not on a car hauler. Electric vehicles and Cadillacs are deceptively heavy. This was only 8 vehicles.
HighwayStar71@reddit
It would help to actually look at the other axles. I was only looking at tandems. That's definitely not fixable.
12InchPickle@reddit
I don’t have them cause I didn’t weight it. I dodged them scales like Neo.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
I do that most of the time unless I think I'm close to legal. But most of the time it's faster to dodge them than to scale and go through them.
Show_Quality_Trash@reddit
Nice try officer
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
That's literally my scale ticket there lol.
MikeMcAwesome91@reddit
I picked up a load of offal and feathersthat looked kind of sketchy, but it was Friday night and I wanted to go home, so I sent it. Drove it 50 miles, got on the scale, 99,000+ lbs. Surprised our trailers would actually hold that much.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
What kind of trailers do you pull?
MikeMcAwesome91@reddit
We just call them open tops...imagine a hopper bottom without the hopper.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
Oh, those trailers they load with guts at packing plants? I think I know what you're talking about.
Solo_1538@reddit
So I’m curious, I’ve never gotten to dip my toes in OTR. I’ve done Concrete and Garbage Truck. In trash our overweights let us get to 72k, concrete was 81k. What is the typical overweight for you guys, is it different between Dry can, reefer, flatbed etc
Cyanide612@reddit
United States, soon to get cdl-a, I believe 80k lbs is normal non-permit limit for tractor-trailer assuming the equipment is capable of holding it. I thought class b was the same theoretical 80k just with a lower trailer limit.
basement_guy@reddit
Someone may have hit 120k+ a few times in the last 2 weeks.
One of those might have been cedar logs, and if you know you will know that's a damn impressive feat for someone to possibly hit 120k gross. Somebody thought the truck had a problem because it was acting anemic with a load of cedar, almost like it was loaded absurdly heavy... Nobody will complain about that payday though.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
I get that feeling hauling 3/4 ton trucks. Like, I only have 5 vehicles on, but I'm going nowhere fast.
mxadema@reddit
We casual moved 150k a bunch of time. No permit, no escorte no warning.
Just the tridrive and the 333 trailer.
We also worked for the federal gov.
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
That's cheating.
mxadema@reddit
Got to move them battle tanks. Lol
Plus_Platform_2149@reddit
My dad's friend loaded his trailer for him. He apologized and said he'd overloaded him. Left him a scale ticket showing 87,000lbs. My dad dodged his way from Chicago to Houston... never touched a scale, only to have his friend laughing at him for the ultimate April fools. He was barely 77,000 really!
Johnny_Rascal2@reddit (OP)
That's diabolical. I love it.
Pitiful-MobileGamer@reddit
One time I was picking up Kool-Aid jammers from Winchester bringing them up to Toronto. It was my home load, I've been out for like 7 days at the time and nothing will stop at me getting home short of a mechanical.
Drop and hook, open up the back, and the last six row are double stacked. Check the bills and 34 skids, normally I take 26.
I knew how to go from Winchester to Buffalo without crossing a single scale, so off I went back country highways zigzagging through Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York State until I popped up the 219 in to Buffalo.
Crossed in Lewiston. Got her into the door in Mississauga.
Bill said 43 k, according to my truck gauge and the airbag gauge on the trailer it was closer to 48.
IslandFlashy3640@reddit
Coca cola when picking up at night they know those weight stations be closed
Natural_Selection905@reddit
One time my dad yelled at me for loading him below 80k when he was hauling grain. We don't have a scale at home so it's a surprise at the elevator.