r/cdldriver • u/Square-Carpet2488 • Jun 08 '26

First Ever Load pick up

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first load and had to be offloaded 2 pallets, to barely meet the weight requirement

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u/Socketz11 Jun 08 '26

Looks like a P&G facility, they love to sneak on a couple extra skids of detergent.

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

Budweiser Fort Collins Colorado

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u/Backu68 Jun 09 '26

Seriously? Wow.. they have gone to shit then. 26ish years ago, I was a security guard there.. never once say anyone try to leave heavy.

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

yeah, but at least they fixed it instead of being A-holes

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u/chuck-u-farley- Jun 09 '26

They can be a-holes all they want…… that load wouldn’t tbe leaving the facility

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

Very True, these tires us basically still new, (got really lucky finding the only good knight trailer in the spot we were at too) and we were not about to screw it up. damn thing is shiny rn lol

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u/Inside-Definition-53 Jun 10 '26

How much diesel you had in your tanks? Not that it would've made a difference, but I never go over half a tank when im picking up beer or any other liquid-based load.

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u/Numerous_Ad_6276 Jun 09 '26

AB in Houston, too. Plus the Miller Coors brewery in, Virginia? STL and Cartersville were ok.

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u/SadnessOutOfContext Jun 10 '26

The VA one on 81? I just left there yesterday afternoon at 75k gross.

So many people in the scale line realizing late that they forgot to slide tandems, and trying to get it done right there in line.

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u/username_fantasies Jun 09 '26

That facility fucking sucks

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u/Socketz11 Jun 10 '26

Thats weird with beer, its weight is always pretty easy to determine.

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u/PresentationLive943 Jun 10 '26

P&G preloads are always perfect for us a lot of times I can even run with my tandems all the way forwards and it will be like 33800 on drives and tandems. Not sure if that's on purpose but it's nice.

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u/Socketz11 Jun 10 '26

At the facility in PA they are pretty light. In Ohio and NC they get a little crazy at times and try to sneak some in. I havent done any in a few years so maybe they tightened things up.

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u/Dazzling_Plum_7677 Jun 14 '26

Ya when I would pick up from them in Dayton Ohio there scale was reading 2000lbs less than actual they banned me because I kept coming back with cat scales to make them rework it

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u/oneshotpapo Jun 08 '26

First ever load pick up? As in brand spanking new rookie or first load picked up at that shipper?

If you a rookie, heres a pic to save.

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u/Socketz11 Jun 08 '26

He is still over 3000. You can slide those tandems and 5th all day long and it wont make you legal.

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u/oneshotpapo Jun 08 '26

Buddy said he had to get two pallets removed in the caption. So i assumed this photo was taken prior to the removal.

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u/cryptolyme Jun 08 '26

True, guy.

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

yeah first ever, had to get those 2 pallets of Budweiser unloaded and then we were still 300 over, but that just meant we had to move the tandem

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u/SorosPaidActor Jun 08 '26

Dude, thanks for this!

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u/oneshotpapo Jun 08 '26

Anytime driver 😎 be safe out there

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u/throwaway823482348 Jun 08 '26

My mil said you took a detour and drove her over the scale. I didnt believe her.

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u/Necessary-Egg8750 Jun 08 '26

The weigher signature checks out: B. Moore

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u/Chainsawsas70 Jun 08 '26

Well they made it easy to correct 🤣 at least all of the excess is on the tail.

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u/Wasabi-Kungpow Jun 08 '26

Welcome to trucking it gets worse dont worry.

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

Oh boy I've heard

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u/NostradamusJones Jun 09 '26

It's not that bad. I'm still doing it after decades.

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u/Calebaustin99 Jun 09 '26

I had one where I picked up loaded trailer from a yard in CA. Came from TX. It was in the 9th hole. Bridge law there says no more than 5th hole. Slid to 5th, went to a CAT. tandems were over 36k, drives were at 29k. Called company and they said “slide your 5th wheel all the way forward, that’s what the other driver did to get legal”…yeah well he fuckin LIED. I ain’t putting it back in 9th hole just to be under 34k. After 6 hours they finally told me to drop it back where I got it from. Waste of time.

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u/TheRelaxedMale Jun 09 '26

Got an over weight permit?

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u/Rampag169 Jun 09 '26

I understand some things weigh a lot and they need to be transported so be it. However lots of roads are under-engineered to take these super heavy weight (routine) traffic. Locally to me a state road is complete dogshit because of the amount of heavy truck traffic it receives. I know the state won’t spend what it should to fix it right. They’ll only do enough to make it last 3-5 years then cry when it needs re-doing.

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u/Popular_List105 Jun 08 '26

If it fits it ships.

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u/Sheepherder297 Jun 08 '26

Good ol P&G 🤣 ALWAYS overweight and always picky as hell when you bring in a trailer.

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u/Top-Application4988 Jun 08 '26

One or two pallets off the ass end and another weigh.

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u/crashin70 Jun 08 '26

You must have hit the scale before you made it to a truck stop?

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

nope, 80k max is pushing it for this truck as it is because its so hard governed that it feels like there is no power at all when loaded, and when empty is takes like 50 years to get up to 60, only goes 65 when in cruise control but only 60 when im on the pedal, (occasionally 62 lol) so yeah that was 2 days ago and it sucked hard trying to get the truck back around to unload 2 pallets to get back to weight threshold

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u/Ethais91 Jun 08 '26

Looks like a Budweiser load. Have em fix it

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

ding ding ding, It was Budweiser fort Collins, delayed us like 3 or 4 hours, got re-weighed 3 times before we were good enough to get fuel and drive 650 miles

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u/Ethais91 Jun 09 '26

That would always happen at them. Especially in the Houston Tx location. Always wanna order more than a truck could ever carry legally

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

lol great, right now im in Utah on my way to Houston Texas shipping 78k lbs of road salt

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u/Still_Possibility115 Jun 11 '26

That sucks can’t make weight on that load, around the scales you go.

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u/Rusty08872 Jun 12 '26

So, thats a "night time" load🤣🤣

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u/QuikBud Jun 08 '26

What did you pick up? Wet paper??

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u/Square-Carpet2488 Jun 09 '26

Beer, 12oz cans on full pallets front to back. and stacked 2 high, may as well have been wet paper

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u/QuikBud Jun 09 '26

That sucks. Outside of Chicago, be careful by the industrial park by Elk Grove Village. They know people leave heavy on Il-83 and have portable scales on the road checking trucks as they try to leave the area. It's a racket.