So I arrived at the DC to be told that the trailer I was collecting was loaded and ready to go.
Good stuff. (makes a flipping change!)
Go around to the bay in question. Hook up and pull forward a few feet so I can slot in the plate and grab the paperwork out of the back of the trailer. Once back in the cab I glance at the papers to check everything when I spot a problem…
They have registered the trailer and load on the weighbridge as 43.900.
Fair enough…
----- but----
I know for a fact that the shunter is the remains of a ‘C’ series Foden… and I drive a 750 Scanny.
Now I don’t know, off the top of my head, what the weight difference is… but I’ll bet it has to be about 3 ton.
Anyway, told the office I wanted some of the pallets back off and, after a big argument with the woman behind the screen (who almost certainly does not know one end of a lorry from another), basically got told to [zb] off.
Put trailer back, unhitched and drove out. No prizes for guessing how far I got before the DC was on the 'phone asking me to go back!
Why do these muppets argue■■?
Because they don’t like it when their plan doesn’t go, well to plan. They don’t like it when some drivers would just do it anyway and when someone actually says no that’s not right they think we’re being awkward rather than think that it’s us that get in trouble if it goes wrong.
Had it few weeks back. Loading roof tiles, bloke on forklift says about 500kg each mate (the crates they use are 110kg). Tried saying the other bloke took them.
Got them to put a crate on the weighbridge 2010kgs each. Ending up putting 13 on instead of the 17 they wanted to load. Around 8 tonne overweight if I had not played my face.
As above I was the arkward one for doing it legally.
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Rowley010:
Because they don’t like it when their plan doesn’t go, well to plan. They don’t like it when some drivers would just do it anyway and when someone actually says no that’s not right they think we’re being awkward rather than think that it’s us that get in trouble if it goes wrong.
… But maybe that, more than anything, is the bit I don’t understand… if you are overweight, you are overweight (and, yes, I accept that --a little bit is acceptable) but why, oh why, would anyone want to put their licence at risk for these idiots■■?
You can guarantee that, if the situation arises, you’ll get dropped in it soooooo fast!
Seriously… why do people do it?
Many moons ago I came in at midnight to find 700 odd Cape on a four wheeler. Not far short of 3 tons overweight.
Surely if they had a weighbridge on site, the obvious thing to do would have been to connect up, weigh off, then go back and say (with proof) “I’m x amount overweight, you need to take that much off before I can take it on the road legally”. That way you’re not seen to just be arguing for the sake of arguing, because you can prove your position instead of just saying ‘I know its going to be overweight, so it’s not going’, and you could still take most of the load
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Had one at XPO, put it over the weighbridge, 3 tonne over, took it back to the Transport office and the “Transport Supervisor” says, " we’ll take some of it off and rearrange the load" when I pointed out that it was gross overweight and not axle weights, he just said " yeah, we can shuffle the pallets around so it’s okay to go" he couldn’t quite grasp the situation and still couldn’t understand when it was explained to him, this is who they put in transport offices!
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Rowley010:
Because they don’t like it when their plan doesn’t go, well to plan. They don’t like it when some drivers would just do it anyway and when someone actually says no that’s not right they think we’re being awkward rather than think that it’s us that get in trouble if it goes wrong.
… But maybe that, more than anything, is the bit I don’t understand… if you are overweight, you are overweight (and, yes, I accept that --a little bit is acceptable) but why, oh why, would anyone want to put their licence at risk for these idiots■■?
You can guarantee that, if the situation arises, you’ll get dropped in it soooooo fast!
Seriously… why do people do it?
Because some drivers like to be the hero for the office. Then as soon as one driver does it then planners and management think all drivers should. Dunno why you’d risk it personally and I’ve no other explanation other then some are playing dumb and claiming they didn’t realise that their unit is heavier than the unit that it was weighed with.
Have scania matched Volvo for top power then?
What I’d pay good money to see is a couple of those oh-so-helpful traffic police to pay a visit to the brain transplant donors in the transport office s and lay down the law to them, face to face, and see how they like it!
Proof if needed that a long overdue consignor’s liability law is required in respect of declared weight of shipment is correct.
Consignors liability already in place.
