How much fuel to put on?

I am so glad I gave up pulling those square trailers for tankers. My head is still spinning and all I did was scan some of the posts. Slide tandems, slide 5th wheel, add 50.3 gal, you can have this much on your steers............... ya'll can have all that nonsense.

I like my tanker, fuel up, arrive shipper, scale light, load (if you are lucky you load on a scale), scale heavy, get bills, go on down the road with no over weight issues. Trailer tandems don't move and had to slide 5th wheel twice in ten years (both times in Va by the way once on 77 and the other in 81).

 

Yeah, containers bite BIG TIME! That ship doesn't have to scale and apparently Europe/Asia doesn't care about axle/truck weights!
I last pulled containers back in 96 and never looked back! WAY TO MUCH pita with them!

 

Shoot, we just went through two weigh stations at 400+ over on the steers. No problems. Had just filled up both times.

 

Go out and add the numbers up on your tire rating panel! read the "hot-single" columns and tell us what it reads! Multiply by 2 and that's your tire rating. It's the simplest thing you can do!
And you're correct. DOT's ink pen can hurt you worse that what your boss can. You might also look at what your front axle is rated for also. Look at the door panel!