Reload

So from Chicago i got a reload out of La Crosse Wisconsin. A 280 mile empty run. I managed to get there and get a really quick load, scale and park on site before i ran out of time. When i arrived at the collection, there was another H&R driver there that had just finished loading, so he pulled off a bay as i went on one. While i was in the shipping office, he went to the on site scale. As i came out of the office he pulled up and came trotting over. He was more than 3000lbs over on his drives, and that was with the trailer axles as far forward as they would go. So i suggested he should go ask them to rework the load ( take it all off and reload it with more single pallets to the front or rear depending how you want to shift the weight. If you have to do this, it can make you really unpopular with fork truck drivers!!!) Thats when he told me, that he'd told them how he wanted it loading, double/ single/ double/ single/ double all the rest, which is fine for 40x48 pallets, but these pallets were much smaller, so the load wasn't spread out enough to get weight off the drives. When mine was loaded, axles set and scaled the weights were perfect, but mine had 5 singles. When i went to bed, he was still on the bay waiting to be reworked. I saw him again the next day and he reckoned they'd kept him 4 hours for his mistake. So think carefully before you do something that could have you sat about for hours not getting paid. If he had let them load it like all the other trailers they load each day, then he would have never had a problem.