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So. UPS DOES have scales!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="tarbar66" data-source="post: 785755" data-attributes="member: 1868"><p>Back when feeders had a Division Manger or two in every district there was talk of utilizing scales at truck stops to check the weight of certain origin loads. This started because business was booming and RPS(now FedEx Ground) was not yet a viable competitor. I was making CPU pickups and I had a ride along and the manager commented about the weight I was loading. The next day I was told to ask each shipper what they thought the weight was of their pickup. Some customers actually weighed the packages on the pallets before I hand loaded them into the drop frame pup. The gross weight of the pick up packages that day was somewhere between 27,000 & 28,000 lbs. in one 28' pup. Some customers did help me load. About a week later on a Friday night the driver going from the Center to the Hub with one of my CPU pup and a local sort pup was pulled over and weighed by a roving DOT check. He was within 1,000 lbs. of the legal weight limit. Every one knows that Fridays used to be a light P/U day, otherwise he would have been cited.</p><p> </p><p>Two weeks later I started meeting a driver from another center with the heavy CPU trailer to prevent the overweight set from happening. The boss didn't want to pay any fines!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tarbar66, post: 785755, member: 1868"] Back when feeders had a Division Manger or two in every district there was talk of utilizing scales at truck stops to check the weight of certain origin loads. This started because business was booming and RPS(now FedEx Ground) was not yet a viable competitor. I was making CPU pickups and I had a ride along and the manager commented about the weight I was loading. The next day I was told to ask each shipper what they thought the weight was of their pickup. Some customers actually weighed the packages on the pallets before I hand loaded them into the drop frame pup. The gross weight of the pick up packages that day was somewhere between 27,000 & 28,000 lbs. in one 28' pup. Some customers did help me load. About a week later on a Friday night the driver going from the Center to the Hub with one of my CPU pup and a local sort pup was pulled over and weighed by a roving DOT check. He was within 1,000 lbs. of the legal weight limit. Every one knows that Fridays used to be a light P/U day, otherwise he would have been cited. Two weeks later I started meeting a driver from another center with the heavy CPU trailer to prevent the overweight set from happening. The boss didn't want to pay any fines! [/QUOTE]
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