Motor Carrier EC's Going For It

[Electric Chicken]

I took it to the yard. It's my brakes and my risk. Not worth it.

 

[Electric Chicken]

The heaviest truck I've ever driven was an overloaded Van Wyk Volvo or KW T-660 (I don't remember) that I took from Chicago to the big Menards DC a few miles east of Omaha. Listening to the engine moaning out it's one note song, yada yada, etc

It was a load of shingles I picked up.

Not only was it way over gross, they loaded it in two separate groups of pallets with nothing in the middle because they were used to loading flatbeds with a frame. No idea why they agreed to load a reefer. No idea why I decided to pull it. I guess I figured, well if I don't use the brakes, I'll be fine.

I scaled it somewhere and my gross was 91,000 or so. As I remember it after all these years..

I took 90 out to Rockford and took US 20 across most of Iowa, then 2-laned it down to I-80 to avoid the scales south of Storm Lake. It added miles and time vs I-88 to the quad cities and 80 the rest of the way. But I would have wasted even more time had I gone back & made them cut the shipment by approximately one fifth.

The truck wasn't that much different on the Illinois section of US 20 where it's hilly just like most of Pennsylvania. It had enough power I probably coulda had another 10k, but the Jake brake wasn't much help on the down-grades and I had to do the whole "mountain braking" thing a lot though. No big deal because I was running Sandstone in WV almost once a week at the time.

But otherwise,... meh..

Just dodge the scales.

My truck actually seemed to like it as far as ride and handling and power goes. Not interested in the fallout if shit hit the fan though.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Dealer closes at 6pm and I managed to get there at 530pm. I wanted to get oil and filters hopefully for a Sunday oil change. If not some random after run when it's warm enough.

I also picked up a new cruise control switch for the steering wheel. The resume/up button is effectively worn out. It only works when I jam it hard with both thumbs, and that's too distracting. My workaround has been to throttle up to my speed or a little above and use the still functioning normally set/down button but that's not always optimal either.

Pretty $alty being Mack and having to get both sides since they're wired together into one plug. But that's basically the only thing that's been bothering me about the truck.

I thought I could clean it with CRC electronics cleaner but that didn't do anything.

 

[Duck]

My truck actually seemed to like it as far as ride and handling and power goes. Not interested in the fallout if shit hit the fan though.

That's the adult decision.

Mine was the "young guy who thinks he's got something to prove" decision.

But nothing bad happened.

 

[Electric Chicken]

That's the adult decision.

Mine was the "young guy who thinks he's got something to prove" decision.

But nothing bad happened.

I started to wonder if my accident load (had the same BOL weight) was actually the same real weight as this one. I didn't scale that one.

It braked liked it was way heavier. These assholes need to learn.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Although to be fair my day cab could have probably scaled it legally if just barely. That thing was balsa wood by comparison.

 

[Rigjockey]

I took it to the yard. It's my brakes and my risk. Not worth it.

Sometimes here we call O/O's brokers, and this is where the "broker brake" comes in. The so called "broker brake" is the "spike" that works only the trailer brakes, so you use their brakes up and not your trucks brakes.

But really if it's overweight, bring it back to get re-worked. That'll learn 'em to load it right the next time!

 

[Rigjockey]

We used to haul heavy out of Indianapolis and every time I scaled it was dead on balls loaded right.
The one time I did not scale it was loaded wrong and heavy on the trailer tandems. The Ohio scales got me and that is payable right then and there or you don't leave.
I went around after shifting my axles three times, still wasn't right. Scale Master says park it and come inside. Scale Master says just slide your axles all the way back and cross the scale again. We only care about the axle weight not the bridge weight.
Okay but what happens when I get to Michigan?
We don't care what happens when you get to Michigan.

Fair enough. I slide the axles all the way back and was let go. Michigan is weigh in motion so they didn't notice and I was legal in Ontario because they give you an extra 2,000Lbs per axle.

Only cost me $400. 00 American dollars. (so, like a million Canadian)

 

[Electric Chicken]

One of the downsides to doing these Richmonds us sometimes they cancel on a whim.

Made it all the way down to find out they canceled my load. So I gotta drag the empty back.