John, I think that is when a captain has to be a captain as we all should to make a safe departure. We need to operate safely no matter what our company ops are.
Sometimes pilots can do things better using their judgement than reading an ops manual at the end of the runway. We need to heed it but we also need to use common sense and what is happening at the moment. We are paid to take care of things and given a manual to assist us but not handicap us.
25 yrs of doing this with no violations, write ups by anybody and no scraped metal worked for me.