Morning Road Crew!
Rough start to things this morning. Yesterday I arrived here at this shipper with 1/8 of a tank of fuel. Then according to the bills, they loaded me with 44,800 pounds. The shipper has a scale for gross weight, but they will not give me axle weights. So that means a trip to the truckstop scale first, to make sure they even loaded me correctly, which I have a feeling they did not. LOL BUT FIRST, I need to slide the tandem wheels to the 40 foot mark so I can be legal for California's Bridge Law. The tandems are always set all the way to the rear when they put the trailer in a dock door. Then they load them heavy, and that makes it nearly impossible to move the wheels back to a legal position. I tried for more than an hour and a half to get the tandem wheels to even budge. Nothing. Not even an inch of movement. I tried all the tricks in the book, so now we have to wait for mobile maintenance to show up since we cannot even hit the roads in California like this. So, here we sit in the shippers lot waiting to get this trailer fixed. THEN, we will head to the truckstop scale, coffee FIRST, then see if we are even legal or not. LOL Not the best of Saturday morniings to say the least. LOL
3 comments:
Thats a bummer. Thats why I hated California. Beautiful scenery but the laws will beat you to death. Anywhere else you could just sneak on over to the truckstop and deal with the issue but not there because they are just waiting around the corner for you to do so.
I've been there!! Just do your best Steve..
For what it's worth I think that it may have been a mistake to allow the fuel level to get that low. I just don't even like to see the fuel level get below a quarter tank under ANY circumstances. It happens a lot when I pick up trucks but I still don't like it.
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