Scaling question

Not odd @ all. You can slide a heavy pallet back 2-3ft and it will alter the drive weight. I carry a chain and a come along for those darn times. It happens aaaaaand I have a digital Air Weigh.

 

Either one of the 2 scales that weighed you was wrong, or a law of physics has been violated here. There is no possible way you could take 4600#'s off the tail of a load that far back in the trailer, and ADD weight to the front of the trailer.

 

I always scale over 30K, just to be safe.

co pays for Cat scale,BUT not ticket if you don't.

shippers may not care if it's right.

but I ain't hauling an over weight load and it is their responsibility to load it right.

I just take it back and hand them the scale ticket.

 

What was the commodity and who was the shipper?

 

Myself...Since I have CARB compliant rig and a "Spread"......I make the shipper load the tail heavy...as long as it's not over 40K on the tail....I'm cool....

 

Sure you can. When the trailer tandems are slid ALL THE WAY up, weight added or subtracted to/from the very tail of the trailer has significant impact on weight at the nose, especially when the weight at the very tail is very heavy. Add weight at tail, reduce weight at nose and vice versa. In fact, I've seen 53 foot trailers with the nose up in the air as the [massive] weight entered the rear of the trailer and someone didn't bother to slide the tandems to the rear like they were supposed to.

 

Man...I'm glad I don't run sliding tandems......

 

Any time you know that you are heavy and make changes to the load, it is ALWAYS a good idea to rescale and make any adjustments needed to your tandems.

 

So I take it you "Door Slammers" get hosed like 'Bedders sometimes......

Like when you scale at the shipper legal and then get pulled in at the coop and find out you're 2K over....