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I took off at 5:30 this morning thinking that I was ready to rock-n-roll down the road. I had a heavy load and I needed to weigh my wagon to make sure I was legal, but I didn't really think I'd have a problem. So I rolled down the road 40 miles to the nearest scale that I knew of and weighed my truck. It was 1000 pounds over on the trailer tandems. The tandems slide back and forth so you can adjust the weight on them, but I'm in California and they have something called a bridge law here.
The bridge law states that the trailer bridge between the center of your tractor tandems and the center of the front axle on your trailer tandems can be no longer than 41 feet. I already had my bridge set at the maximum legal length so I couldn't adjust my trailer tandems to compensate for the weight. The maximum legal weight on a set of set of tandems is 34,000 pounds. My trailer tandems weighed in at 35,040.
So I had to turn around and drive all the way back to LA so they could load this damn thing right or take some weight off the back. That was during the morning rush out here. I didn't make it back to the terminal until 8:30. :eyes:
No telling how long it's going to take them to correct the problem. They wanted this load in Michigan on Friday. They're going to have to get moving if they still want that to happen.
You'd think that since they have a shit load of freight to move out of California they'd have this weight distribution deal down pat. No dice, though. When I went in to the office here there was another driver in there with the same problem. But now I know where there are some scales much closer to the terminal. I hate it that I had to find out the hard way.
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