21 minutes to weigh in Utah!

Bunch of DAs at that one!

 

At the east bound port of entry from Utah to Wyoming they have been coming out more and more to measure an O/S load and the line will be backed up... I guess it takes an #####**** like me from chicago to grow a set and scoot off in the left lane an hit the road... I'm not gonna sit for Fat Alburt and his wife to swallow the cheeseburgers in there mouths before they figure out how to do there job... As of today I havent had a problem... Normally when they pull that in WYOMING and the line is backed up i BYPASS... If it's any other day I'm feeling my woodey is larger than it is I never stop anyways... In 6 years haven't had a problem... It's to cold out now to get out an have big mamma type a couple digits into her computer only to tell me have a safe trip... I Will add Utah also as a little secret if going West on 80 I have waved that scale 100 times as I blow the coop and not once been stopped... I may be wrong but hey I guess If i get a ticket i deserve it... Till today hasnt happend....

 

I had a scale in Nebraska make me sit until the load stopped.
As long as a tanker isn't over gross the odds of over axle are very slim because the tank equals the weights between the drives and tandems.

 

Virginia did that to me last week I sat there for about 10 minutes on the scale...then green light lol

 

I was going to just say this lol.

unloader

 

I have been weighing trucks for over 20 years, unbaffled tankers too. I have gotten pretty good at ballparking the weight while it is surging. If I think it will be over axle or over gross wt, I will have the tanker pull around for another weight, while I clear the scale lane so nobody else has to wait.

Yes, sometimes it takes a few minutes to get the slosh to settle down. Especially if the driver is ram-jamming from axle to axle while weighing.

Lately we have found quite a few MC331's that were heavy on the drive axles, light on the trailer axles.

The point of axle weighing a tanker? Are tankers not subject to the same axle weight laws as everyone else?

 

Axle weighing a single compartment tank is silly, because the weight distribution is continuously in flux. As a previous poster mentioned, hilly terrain shifts the weight distribution considerably, especially on loads which don't fill all the area inside the trailer (heavier denser liquids, for example). The only time there is any chance the axle weights are legal is, as previously mentioned, on a flat, level scale after the surging has stopped.

Your average smoothbore tanker going down the road with say, a load of beef fat (used to haul this all over, 5500 gallons in a 7000 gallon Brenner tandem axle), may gross 77k and be completely legal at rest on level ground, but the second that roadway bends up hill, it's quite a reasonable expectation for the trailer tandems to suddenly shoulder a good deal more than their allotted 34K. The same applies heading back down, when that liquid surges to the front of the trailer, thus weighting the drives and steers.