The 1 pallet in the nose rule

I have never heard of such a "Rule". Where is that rule written? A pallet of what? Potato Chips or lead wheel weights? Where do people come up with such nonsense? That is a perfectly balanced and legal load. ROLL WITH IT!

 

Please "Expose" the evil shipper. I'm sure they will be shut down by midnight!

 

I dont see any problems there... I get loaded like that alot.

 

Trucks are different and freight is different.
It is up to the driver to know the difference.
45,000 puts me at 80,000 with about 3/4 fuel and very difficult to balance.
Machine parts always makes me nervous until I get to the catscale

 

Yeah, someone sitting at a desk knows more about load and weights than the driver does.

 

That’s a pretty good example of why I’d want my 5th wheel set to where you’re 12.2k or so loaded. Gives you some wiggle room. They way it is now you can’t even scale an 80k load.

 

It's just kind of a general rule of thumb. Depends on load weight and number of pallets. But i generally have a shipper load single , double , single in the nose so as not to get too heavy up front an to get the load stretched out as close to the 48 foot mark as i can. Obviously if there are too many pallets than that's not possible.

 

on the rare occasion we load a 53' van, we load based on the destination, not the origination. Colorado/Wyoming allow 36K on the drives or tandems, as long as we stay under 80K. Used to load beans in Nebraska, 44,800 lbs going to Ga. by rail. We'd always load legal for Ga. axles, customer was fine with it, usually meant they had to cut one pallet.