I'll never see another scale ticket like this...

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by KMac, Sep 27, 2012.

  1. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    U dun't kneed to skale cauze you is real smart. Most us stukid drihers need to scale haevy loods. Mi kompany evens pays me back for the scales.
    They won't pays for anys overwaits finds and they win't evens gives me a bonuus if I'z gets a lott of CSA points. Go figgure.

    If a loads heavy (your opinion), slap it on a scale. Better to have paid a scale than risk a ticket and points.,
    This 45,900 pounds load seems to be dogging this truck down, I better move the tandems up 2 holes. HAHAHAHAHA
     
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  3. TruckerPete1990

    TruckerPete1990 Road Train Member

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    His steers are not over lol depends on ur tires most hold 12500
     
  4. SmokeyCowboy009

    SmokeyCowboy009 Heavy Load Member

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    Ive gotten scales 12k steer or under... drive 32500 tail 32500... oh ya
     
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  5. KMac

    KMac Road Train Member

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    States vary, some like KY go by width of your tire x a.set.lbs... in KY case its 700 per inch... some have a set axle weight. As I said in an earlier post I did happen to be in Mississippi which is one of the 12000 lbs states, but 20lbs is not a concern.
     
  6. 7-UP

    7-UP Light Load Member

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    LOL, That is a great post
     
  7. zaptear

    zaptear Medium Load Member

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    I'm a Tx only driver and I get a scale about 3 times a week


    Sent from my iPhone 4s using Tapatalk
     
  8. Arkansas Frost

    Arkansas Frost Heavy Load Member

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    I use to have my fifth wheel where it was always borderline or just barely over 12k on the steer. I popped it back two notches when I had a front heavy load and haven't had to touch it since. Noticed my average mileage per gallon jumped way up too. where I would average 6.5 or better, now it's 7.1 or higher most of the time no matter where I'm driving.
     
  9. FatDaddy

    FatDaddy Road Train Member

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    Wait, haven't I seen a thread started by you about how you were "trapped" into an overweight ticket? And now after less than a year of driving you know exactly what your truck is going to weigh by what the tires look like? You should sell this system and put CAT scales out of business
     
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  10. NewNashGuy

    NewNashGuy Road Train Member

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    That's right, that event made me research and ask a lot of drivers on how to master that and I got it down perfectly. Funny when people put a time limit on knowledge... Most people live a normal life, and learn things "on the go". However someone like me who would spend all day reading books, internet, experimenting, asking for advice, would learn the same thing in one week that took someone a couple of years to figure out without strenuous research. All of the guys who went to my trucking school or at my orientation say that they still have trouble backing, ask for help, cannot blindside, etc. whereas I can do any time of backup already yet they went to my same class and still suck. My roommate spent an hour trying to get into one dock and finally gave up and got someone else to do it for him. I was at the same place before him and backed it in which took about 45 seconds. Yeah it was tough but he didn't figure out the angles. So if you placed a time limit on knowledge I shouldn't have been able to know how to do that since I started at the same time as him.
     
  11. Mack attack

    Mack attack Light Load Member

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    And if the tires are low on air, do you put that into the equation?
     
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