Dangerous Overweight Container Loads

[Buddy H]

We need to start something over getting these 100,000 lb overweight permits abolished for sea-containers. Georgia allows unnecessary heavy container loads that could all be shipped at legal weight limits. I can see overweight for special loads such as heavy equipment that can't be broken down but for a hundred thousand pound load of frozen chicken or paper products? These containers don't have the brakes, tires, or suspension to be hauling these type loads down the road. They are breaking trucks down and are dangerous to everyone sharing the highway. Not only that but they don't pay enough to compensate for the damage done to the truck each time you haul one of these loads. Many go over what the limits of the permit allow.

[Jim]

On these overloads and other dangerious loads do what I have begged for over 30 years refuse to pull them!!! and encourge your fellow trucker to do the same. the problem with the trucking industry today is that nobody will stand together oh they say yes yes I'm all for this or that but when it comes down to it they turn there back on there fellow truckers. I have heard this for years; I can't park my truck for three or four days, my family will go hungry or I'll loose my truck or my job or my lease or some other lame excuse. But the truth is that you cannot afford not to!!!! park the trucks for one week and you will not loose your Job,lease,truck or food for the family. In fact this will improve your life after trucks are parked for one week there will be better pay,better everthing and you will not have to work as hard to achive what you need to take care of your bills and familys needs. stick together GET IT DONE and show the world that if they have it a TRUCKER hauled it WITH OUT TRUCKS AMERICA STOPS!!!! WITH OUT TRUCK DRIVERS BOTH STOP!!!!! BE A MAN TAKE THE STAND AND BRING GOOD TRUCKING CONDITIONS BACK!!

[railpig]

I would park mine in a moment but we need a plan before that happens. Call another meeting here in Savannah soon. We will make sure it gets posted on the speaker boxes, trouble booth, every fuel stop, trucking company, or anywhere else around here for that matter. I am sure others will do that too. Now is not the time to stop work but now is the time to start gathering support for such an event to happen at some point this year.

[HardTimeTrucker]

We are going to call a Savannah driver meeting in a few short weeks. It'll be on a week day afternoon around five. Look for it here & also posted at the port a couple weeks ahead of the date. I think it's going to be very interesting so don't miss out.

[HardTimeTrucker]

Anybody wanting to help pass the word drop me an email @ [e-mail]

[papaproctor]

what is the most you can scale on the axles with this 100,000 lbs permit?

[stickhauler]

it's on the permit what you can scale. the permit also says no incliment weather conditions like rain, fog, snow, ice or they can bust you back down to legal weight but dispatch isn't going to tell you that and hopes you don't read it on there.

[PorkChopXpress]

When it comes to Container Freight it seems as if the DOT has no concern for it. A few weeks back I picked up a Box and Chassis in Fargo, Ga on a Saturday for Savannah on Monday. I got the Load thru Landstar for a decent rate and with our work being slow I took it. I am permitted for 95K in Fla and 100K in Ga like most everyone else. I was told when I picked it up that it was Heavy when I hooked it it was very evident. I called the Landstar Agent that I got it from who always has Permit Loads that are generally within the Bounds of the Permit. I parked it in St George, Ga for the weekend and went home when I returned on Saturday evening the tires on the Tri Axle were just about square. I had a note under my windshield to call a local number which I did and the guy told me he knew what I was pulling and he had refused the Load already on Saturday because it was so heavily overloaded. He told me that DOT was down at my Truck on Saturday Evening "looking around". I thanked him for the heads up and started North I had not gone a mile when DOT got me yes on a Sunday. The Plain Clothed Officer said that the woman at the Store had called him when I first arrived to get my Truck just as he had asked her to and this was a Courtesy Stop. I showed him my Paperwork and Permit and asked if I had weighed it and with my answer being no because there were no Scales between where I had come from and where I was currently at and he said "This is a Freebie there is very little we can do with the Shipping Lines but we can shut you down so that maybe next time you will tell them no." He also said that they had weighed one recently that was 117K but they were taking the stance that there would be one warning and then $hit would hit the proverbial Fan. I turned it in through Gate 3 and Ironically as I was Bobtailing out Gate 5 the Agent called and asked if I wanted another one and I politely declined.

[stopngo]

great story hand. i quit pulling this crap. none of these jacka$$ motor carriers want to ask the customer for anymore money or pay us when they do get it for overweight loads. like you say half the time the weight is much more than the permit allows. the steam ship lines seem to control georgia by pushing to allow this much weight on these ragged a$$ chassis with dry rotten bias tires

[HardTimeTrucker]

Yes, thanks for this informative post to everyone PorkChopXpress..

[curtis]

i don't pull overweight or hazardous loads for their cheap customers. these companies in savannah either don't want to pay for that service or when they do the amount is an insult. i do keep x on my license but i'll use it only when they decide to pay for that extra risk.

[xbox]

Feb 7, 2010 14:15:56 GMT -5 papaproctor said:

what is the most you can scale on the axles with this 100,000 lbs permit?

i was snooping around and read this old post. i know it is a bit late for response but 34,000lbs on drives and the container trailer axles in georgia i think.

[bigbird]

it's 46,000 on permit load driver