Why don't the MFG's weigh them?
I always thought that the manufactures did not weigh all the campers because of the cost of having a scale big enough to do it. After seeing how cheep a four pad scale system cost I can only think the...
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Shippers must have a weight on the bills of lading when they ship an item.
However, many times I think they use theoretical weights.
That's what I ran into many times during the past 40 odd years of over the road trucking flat bed and stepdeck freight. They fail to add the weight of any dunnage for instance. That's why I usually carried a few sticks of my own when loading steel bars and channels and/or coils which were sometimes on skids/pallets.
Many times I would be upwards of 2,000 lbs over the stated weight of the product as listed on the BOL, in which case I would request that it be changed or some mat'l taken off the truck.
When you are looking at an empty weight (tare) of 31,500 lbs and a shipment weight of 48,000 lbs, often times it would be one huge single coil of steel, there is not much wiggle room to be had, especially if you are low on fuel. Ask me how I know this!!
Obviously, 2 or 3 campers on a flatbed/stepdeck trailer should not be a weight problem, but still, the weights, be they actual or estimated, must be on the BOL's
Dave S.
However, many times I think they use theoretical weights.
That's what I ran into many times during the past 40 odd years of over the road trucking flat bed and stepdeck freight. They fail to add the weight of any dunnage for instance. That's why I usually carried a few sticks of my own when loading steel bars and channels and/or coils which were sometimes on skids/pallets.
Many times I would be upwards of 2,000 lbs over the stated weight of the product as listed on the BOL, in which case I would request that it be changed or some mat'l taken off the truck.
When you are looking at an empty weight (tare) of 31,500 lbs and a shipment weight of 48,000 lbs, often times it would be one huge single coil of steel, there is not much wiggle room to be had, especially if you are low on fuel. Ask me how I know this!!
Obviously, 2 or 3 campers on a flatbed/stepdeck trailer should not be a weight problem, but still, the weights, be they actual or estimated, must be on the BOL's
Dave S.
