"Do not ever drive flatbed"

That’s a bad attitude. Why would you put yourself in that position, overweights cost money.

 

That is what the guy i am running with told me to do. He said just run it.

 

It's not overkill. The other guys with no trip chains and chokers are just lazy. @HillbillyDeluxeTruck said it best: "Strap for the wreck, not the ride".

 

Sure he did. It would not be his citation or fine.
It would be all yours.
This is one thing to not trust anyone on.

 

Even if boss will pay an overweight, its not a terrible idea to know what you actually weigh and how the load is distributed, it will help in the future when you show up to a place and they want to load close to your absolute max when theres a scalehouse closer than a cat scale.

12$ for peace of mind and knowing your equipment is cheap

 

True. I’ll scale out. I hit a weigh station and got the green light last night so i guess my load was on point and i thought of cke asking how it scaled out lol

 

Most scale houses have a digital readout. Some only weigh 1 axle at a time, others do axles and the whole truck/trailer.

I'll be honest I dont scale anything unless there's a scale on site and Im curious. I can legally carry 50k, but if a place ever asks me what my empty weight is, I make sure to tell them 32k. Just a few weeks ago, that saved me 5k lbs because they loaded me light lol.

 

If you have a suspension psi gauge for your drives, and possibly trailer. It is a good idea to scale a few loads and compare with gauges Then you will have better idea where you stand when questioning weight.

Eventually you will load a 48k coil and know exactly where it needs to go. Don’t always trust shippers, they see a spread axle flat and think they can put it way back sometimes.