Minimum Weight to scale.

why on earth would you ever need to know this? i havent scaled anything under 46000 in at least 5 months.

 

If your truck is equiped with a air bag pressure gauge it will make it alot easier. I got my drives to 34000 then marked the spot mentally on where my air gauge is. For my truck that is about 69-70 psi. Now I normally slide my tandems till im around 68-69 psi... If I cant get it there.. I know I need to scale it. If im over 45000 I scale it also to check for gross ect. 35k is very overkill if you have a air bag pressure guage. Also dont forget the weight of fuel when adjusting your tandems.. that can add a few pounds to the drives

 

35k is a good limit. My truck has a pressure reading for the suspension and 53psi while driving is roughly 33-34k on the drives so regardless of the weight I slide the tandems on the trailer to achieve that pressure or close to it. Iif its more than 37k I'll double check and I'm usually right on the mark. Unless you're going to a short kingpin to rear axle state like California, Florida or Michigan, setting your tandems to the 41' mark to thecenter of the tandems (legal for Tennessee, Virginia, also satisfies the 43' limit for northeastern states) will allow you to legally scale most loads that are even weight per pallet and arent loaded past the 48' mark.

 

Hmmm.......didnt think fl was a short kingpin state will hv to.double check that

 

not until I am at or above 45K.

 

K..but in fl you can run 44k on tandems so i guess ill suck it up a tab b4 leaving ga

 

They are, but allow 44k on tandems, so in FL if not over gross then no problem.

edit, got beat...

 

I 39k on a couple of weeks ago, so thought no sweat. Well, rolling across the scales in VA is was shocked to find I was 2400 over on my drives. (This truck does NOT have an air bag pressure gauge or I would have known it.) Fortunately, VA lets you adjust them and try again. Since most of my loads originate in VA and VA weigh stations are almost always open, I just let them let me know if I am over and adjust accordingly.

 

between 25K and 30K, depends on how it looks in the trailer and on the air gauge.

some loads vary in the pallet weights. could have more in nose or tail.