Weigh stations and my weight

OK, Did I read something wrong? 15 ft from the back door. 42k, Ain’t no way to make the Load Legal, if it’s loaded evenly. The only choice here is to slide tandems forward all the way, and run as low on fuel as possible. Don’t even waste money or time to weigh it. Save it for the overweight ticket from Drives being at 38k or more. Lol. I doubt this is a Legit posting,’someone’s bored.

 

He’s talking about suspension pressure guage. Mine was at 55 in this example. Also helps to have one on the trailer. My tare wt was 35050, after putting 125 gallons of fuel. Picked up a load of cotton, supposed to be 45k. The Shipper said we might have a problem. I told him, I won’t be back regardless, that I would just run with it either way. As it turned out the load was actually 44.400#, but had it been 45k, I would have still been good. Basically I just put the tandems at but still under the back of the Load. Works almost every time, as long as it’s loaded evenly. Really got it right ( Lucky) this time.

 

Maybe I'm looking at his attachment photo wrong, but its got the brake gauges above, and a fancy diagram below it , highlighting his drive axles below, with "32,551" and "lbs" plain as day. I'm taking that to mean the weight on his drives, with the highlight on the diagram below his drives.

But, what do I know, I drive an old truck without any fancy electronic doodads on it, just a load gauge.

 

I missed the attachment. That’s pretty cool, what will they come up with next?

 

Canned beer?

Sliced bread?

 

Same goes for recycled cardboard, or paper loads. I remember calls and QC notes to make sure you fill up then scale before going for pickup.

 

Welcome to trucking. That happened to me near Roanoke, VA. I picked up at a customer off in the woods somewhere east of I-81. I was trying to get to the Pilot near the scales on I-81 and accidentally got on I-81 1 mile before the Roanoke scales.

VA will let you slide your tandems to get axle weight OK as long as you aren't over gross weight.

 

There is a gauge analog that will tell you what your arride is carrying. I think it's around 48 PSI at 34000 on drives. Its been a while.

I always scale loads before any DOT Coop.

It is good to have a truck and trailer full fuel, you in it and your stuff weighed empty by Cat Scale. Then you know exactly what they can stick in the trailer without going over gross and axle give or take. Pallet patterns matter as does the trailer tandems. The steers less so.

 

I'm completely confused now.