Weight question

I don’t know. If you are overweight at the scale you could explain this theory to the officer. If he’s a skinny officer he would probably understand. If he’s a fat officer I would come up with a different explanation.

 

The whole weight of combination (Steer + Drive + trailer) are divided among those 3 axles. Removing 4,000 pounds from the combination cannot make any axle heaver than before. I would re-weigh the whole truck, paying out of my own pocket if necessary, to prove it to yourself. If I am wrong, send Syndey Sweeney to my house and I will give her the money for the re-weigh.

 

You can put 20k on a single axle all day long. And yes, “some” weight will come off but not the 4k completely.

 

I know from experience that if your 19800 lbs. on drive axle on single screw drive and your (53ft) trailer tandem is weighting 36100 lbs. and you take 2500lbs off the trailer tandems. It will up your drive axle to 20400 lbs. or close to it.

 

It was the last to pallets on the trailer, against the back door.

 

There's a teeter totter effect, particularly if the tandems are all the way up. If the weights are 19,500 and 36,000, and you remove 2,500 from the back its entirely possible to end up with 20,000 and 33,000.

Somewhere I have an example of Putina load that barely axled out. We had some extra time before the first stop so I had my guy put it on the scale for practice (Urbandale, IA pilot - its a fun scale to pull onto). When we were done with the first stop I had him go back over the scale to figure out how much we could slide up. We went from just under to just over on the drives.