overweight at steer axle.

Slide ur fifthwheel back... May have to slide tandams forward for bridge after sliding fifthwheel back tho.

 

What is your axle rating?
What is your steer tire rating?

 

I'm curious what kind of tractor are we talking about? Does the driver weigh 400 pounds?

Depending on the tractor and tanks specs and assuming it is full fuel presently, there will be some fuel burn loss but definitely need to slide the 5th wheel back, regardless.

I'm also wondering if maybe this rig was weighed with some brakes pressed holding the tractor in an unnatural weight position when the weight was stamped. 13,000+ lbs on the steer is rare to see except on car haulers.

 

Yeah, this is an odd one. I don't ever recall being over on a steer like that. Maybe in the old cabover days. With my Pete, loaded, I actually took weight OFF the steer. Sumting fishy here.

 

I've had my W900L steer axle over weight before when I was hauling cattle. Once I figured out that I could only put 3500 pounds in the nose compartment of my bull wagon I did fine... But sometimes this made positioning the rest of my load to get full weight a bit difficult, depending on the size of the animals.

 

Sounds like they put the generator all the way to the front of the flatbed, or trailer. The load needs to be reworked to make it legal.

Also, 12,000 is not the limit on steers. It's the lesser of three.
1. State max, mostly 20,000 but every state is different so verify all states that will be traveled in in the Atlas
2. Axle weight rating. Usually on the door jab.
3. Tire rating, it's on the tire.

In your normal feet truck, a 13.5 k axle is rate. 12k and 12.5 are common though.

 

Don't forget the California KPRA laws.

 

I just went around the scales,,,,

 

I don't know what's so hard to understand. Its all leverage. Find out where the 5th wheel needs to be to have 12k on steers and 34k on drives with full gear and full fuel and leave it there (if bridge laws allow for it). Trailer axle position has zero effect on the weight split between the steer axle and drive axles.