Trial By Fire - 45,4000lbs Of Anheuser Busch - Prime TNT

Beer loads, Nestle water and paper loads are always the heaviest for us. They load those things to the hilt but I've been lucky and only beer loads have to be re worked. It's very true, they want every can or bottle they can get on a load, the last one I had, they pulled 3 cases off of a pallet, re wrapped and changed the paperwork to make me legal.

One tip on beer, never pull in full of fuel lol.

One tip on beer, never pull in full of fuel lol.

Why not? Unless you are getting paid a percentage of weight, like me, what benefit is it to not have a full tank. Having to refuel more often, or having to guess how much fuel you need remaining to the next weigh station sucks. Unless you plan on bypassing a weigh station (and I know what exits to take to do that), you better hope that road is NOT closed.

Dave

Beer loads, Nestle water and paper loads are always the heaviest for us. They load those things to the hilt but I've been lucky and only beer loads have to be re worked. It's very true, they want every can or bottle they can get on a load, the last one I had, they pulled 3 cases off of a pallet, re wrapped and changed the paperwork to make me legal.

One tip on beer, never pull in full of fuel lol.

When ever I pulled a beer load, whenever possible I would always fill my tanks before going in because they load you by weight.

One time I went into the Busweiser plant in St Louis with 1/3 tank of fuel after delivering a load of enzimes and taking a load to the upper peninsula of MI, boy that was fun trying to figure how to fuel & be legal going across scales and have enough fuel to get back out after delivery because there isn't much in the way of fuel stops up there.

Ernie

They actually send us a note saying they don't want you full of fuel because they want to load as much as possible. The loads normally will go within enough miles to not require a fuel stop.