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WEIGHT TICKETS
Military shipments are billable based on the net weight obtained for each shipment. Therefore, it can be argued that valid weight tickets are the most important document to obtain on a military move. As a reminder, the following information is required to be considered a valid weight ticket (click HERE for an example):
1. Location of Scale
2. Date of Weight
3. Weights
4. Company ID
5. Shipper's Last Name
6. GBL Number
7. Weighmaster Signature
8. SCAC
There are no exceptions to the above requirements which are found in the 400NG tariff. Whether the shipment is a crated shipment, loose loaded, reweigh, or even back weigh, all weight tickets obtained on military moves must include all of the above details.
These requirements help NFC avoid unnecessary Letters of Warning and help to ensure that the agents and drivers are paid without deduction.
Refer to the Distribution of Documents sheet which outlines each agent's responsibilities, and where/who to send documentation.
REWEIGHS
While USTRANSCOM removed the $400 penalty associated with failed reweighs, it was replaced with 30 day suspensions. It is critical that our agent family performs a reweigh as requested by NFC. Below serves as a reminder on proper reweigh procedures.
Which shipments need to be reweighed?
There are two types of reweighs, automatic and requested.
Auto-reweigh: for pay grades E-1 thru E-5, all shipments weighing 4000 lbs. or more are required to be reweighed. For pay grades E-6 thru O-10 and DoD Civilians, all shipments weighing 7000 lbs. or more are required to be reweighed.
Requested item code reweigh (4A/4B): NFC sends item code approval emails to the applicable agent for all requested reweighs. The majority of requests (item code 4A approvals) come directly from the base while item code 4B requests come directly from the customer. All item code requested reweighs must be performed, regardless if the shipment does not meet the auto-reweigh requirements.
Who is responsible for reweighing a shipment?
It is NFC's policy that on crated shipments, the destination agent is responsible for reweighing. On loose load shipments, the hauler is always responsible to reweigh. If the hauler fails to do so, we may request that the SIT agent perform a reweigh prior to delivering out of SIT. It is in the hauler's best interest to perform the reweigh as failure to do so means our office does not have the proper paperwork to bill the government and therefore, their compensation is delayed until the shipment releases out of storage and is reweighed.
NFC will send a reweigh request via email to the responsible party once it is confirmed that a shipment requires a reweigh. If you'd like these notifications to go to a specific email for your convenience, please contact NFC Agent & Business Services.
When and where should a shipment be reweighed?
The Tender of Service states that the JPPSO and/or customer can request a witnessed reweigh at any point during the move; therefore, the best course of action is to perform the reweigh upon delivery, whether direct or into SIT. It is also important to note that the TSP is required to submit the date of the reweigh to the government. This date should line up with the date shipment arrives at the SIT facility, or the direct delivery date.
It is preferred that the reweigh occurs as close as possible to the delivery address or DA's warehouse. Please reweigh the shipment on the day it is offloaded, getting the gross immediately before and tare weight immediately after offloading.
Please contact NFC Billing or NFC Reweigh with any questions.
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