Well I didn't quite make it home for Christmas this year, I got stuck running a load of cheese,furniture,doors, and veal to KS and CA. I got pulled over in TX on US54 on the way, got a warning for doing 75 in 70. The Trooper said he was just looking for something to do to show his Sgt. that he was working, so it didn't mean anything. He didn't even do an inspection, so it won't even show up on CSA.
I got all my stops off in two days except for the San Diego, which was just a few doors which are strapped to the walls, so I picked up a partial load of oranges in Riverside then went down to San Diego the next morning and delivered there and headed to Yuma to finish loading. I crossed the scale in CA on 15 and they didn't say anything, but when I got to Yuma they said I was 35,300 on my drives. He told me to pull over and adjust it and go ahead, so I did. When I CAT scaled it at the Love's before loading I was still over on my drives, ended up having to slide the fifth wheel all the way forward. Good thing I did scale though because I was 70k lbs gross and they wanted to load another seven pallets! So they ended up cutting one pallet of broccoli and I scaled out 79,940. 80k is the limit for a standard tractor trailer configuration like mine.
I ended up making it home the day after Christmas. I delivered my load Monday and was supposed to be off the rest of the week, but the next day they called me and sent me out to NC.
