Weigh stations and my weight

That depends on the spacing.
All of our trailers do about 250-275 per hole.

 

Son, take a breath. Look, you've got a little bitty 21 ton load. Your gauge says you've got 32,551 # on your drives. Figure a ballpark number of 12,000# on your steers.

What's the empty weight of your tractor and trailer? YOU DO KNOW THAT, RIGHT? Figure 34,000 if you're driving some plastic OTR rig and a dry van. Your load of 42,424# + your empty weight of 34,000# would give you a total gross of 76,424#.

So, 32,551# (drives) + 12,000# (steers) = 44,551# on the front half of your truck.

That means that 76,424# (total gross weight) - 44,551# (gross weight of the front half) = 31,873# on your tandems. YOU'RE GOOD TO GO. Stop wasting time and get rolling.

To your delivery, not running around looking fer back roads or CAT scales. DOT guys are just like truckdrivers. A few that are wound too tight, and a lot who are lazy.

 

put trailer hole on 7th or 8th ride on

 

There are all/ways pay scales near the state run coops you may have to back track 1 ex. to find one but it sounds like you are good to go but sometimes its better to be sake than sorry?

 

A long time ago, when I once upon a time dragged around a van trailer, if the load wasn't sealed yet I'd put my rear trailer axle under the last pallet of the load. Fifth wheel centered on drives and I was 99% of the time legal. It didn't matter if it was paper, beer, palletized aluminum coils....legal.

I'm guessing English isn't your first language which means you were probably pushed through a mega's training program at light speed. Your co-trainee probably doesnt know any more than you do. You're going to make a lot of mistakes, some of them costly, because you weren't able to succinctly phrase the questions you wanted answered. You're also going to piss a lot of people off because you're out here rolling when you're not ready yet. Slow down, let your "driver manager" know you're still learning and you won't be pushed when you shouldn't even be running solo yet. Take your time, pull into lots of rest areas and truck stops to make sure you know where you're going. Remember the 5 Ps:
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Poor
Performance

 

yesterday, I 40, east of Asheville, open around 9:30am /10am.

 

Depends on trailer. Depends how they loaded it. All in the nose, spread out, or all the way back. Which is why I said approx. And to reweigh.

Eh, he'll get the hang of it.

 

If you are worried about your weight getting to a cat scale is the best thing. If you can get to one in route would be best. But if you have to backtrack to get to a scale any good company is going to understand. But a good rule of thumb is to weigh your truck over 46,000 pounds of well balanced weight. Each notch on your sliding 5th wheel will shift roughly 100 pounds and sliding tandem is kinda all over but a lot of states require you to have them set at the 48 foot mark or less. Never adjust your weights on the scale. Google search travel plazas around me. Call them to make sure they have a scale as some dont.

 

If u go into some lumber mills with half a tank of fuel u will regret it lol