Good news in the future if you’re a driver
I’m surprised that it’s taken this long to happen. A lot of the weights I get given clearly don’t include the weight of the box. 4t per box has got to add up substantially on a ship.
Hiya…i picked up a 19 ton box with a 40ft foot skelly one night in Hull, got on the weigh bridge 56 tons gross on
4 axles.oops a bit heavy.
John
Freight Dog:
Good news in the future if you’re a driver
Only good if your given the info when you pick the box up, not all container ports give out declared weights, you have to rely on your planner giving that weight, right or wrong.
This law only relates to containers going on ships, not trucks!
It does relate to shipping law not trucks I can see that as its a SOLAS ammendmant, but it stands a chance of benefitting everyone involved in the transport side. At the moment is no mandatory weighing of containers, just a declaration, which is why you may not have the weight available when you collect due to unconfirmed reliability of the information. I concede the use for a driver relies on said information being carried through the system to destination but I fail to see why it wouldn’t be.
I wonder if the captain on that ship in the report got done for insecure load? 
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
I wonder if the captain on that ship in the report got done for insecure load?
Hiya… didn’t about 300 boxes fall into the sea from that ship■■?
John
Shovel drivers on the quarries used to have a bucket weigher I’m sure, surely it’s not beyond the technological ability to weigh containers with those cranes on wheels as they load them on or off the ships?
I was under the assumption that every box that went on to a container ship would have to be weighed. Oh there could be a big difference between what they are told is in them to what they actually weigh. Eddie.
I wondered that myself. Maybe they used notional weights.