[Mike Soukup]

Like Norm & Cory we showed up to our regional and learned that we were overweight, way overweight. Our shipping department at Motorola weighed the crate when it left and it was 363, but the drayage company at GLR said it was 572 (the numbers may be off by 10, I can't remember them exactly). We tried to argue that a 130 lb robot, a crate, and 2 batteries cannot way 572 lbs, but they wouldn't hear it. The rep said he weighed it himself and he was certain it was correct, but offered to let us weigh the crate on Saturday after packing it up again. So on Saturday we packed it exactly like we did in Feb and by a miracle our crate came in under 400 lbs. They wouldn't give us our money back because they said "we could have packed our crate differently this time."

Did any other teams have weight discrepancies at GLR or any other regional? If enough of us had similar issues, we can get on the drayage company's case.