09-17-2005, 08:17 AM
About 20 yrs. ago I spent a couple months hauling logs form an area northwest of Broadus Montana to a sawmill in Spearfish South Dakota. I had to go through a port of entry in Broadus & one day I had to wait while a truck with a refrigerated van trailer was on the scales. He couldn't get his weight correct on his axles. Either too heavy on the truck or too heavy on the trailer. He kept moving back & forth jamming his brakes on. I went into the port office & the officers in there were cracking up. Seems the truck was loaded with carp (48,000 pounds of them) headed for a fish food mill in Idaho. They told me that the trailer was just lined with Visqueen on the floor & about halfway up the walls & the carp were just loaded inside that loose. Every time the truck would move, the fish would slide forward or back & the load would shift too much for him to axle legal.
Hate to tell this part but the driver was a black man & the officers in the port were just making it tough on him. They finally let him go on because his gross weight was legal.
I'd have hated to have to clean that trailer up after he unloaded & I can just imagine the mess if he'd had to really slam on his brakes.
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Hate to tell this part but the driver was a black man & the officers in the port were just making it tough on him. They finally let him go on because his gross weight was legal.
I'd have hated to have to clean that trailer up after he unloaded & I can just imagine the mess if he'd had to really slam on his brakes.
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