Sliding axles.... One hole = how much weight?

I always say slide em till you like em!

 

My last load was 12100/34000/33800....took some adjusting to get one close to perfect. Got stopped at every scale, but no one seemed to mind the 100 over on steers. Gross was 79900....49300ish in the box.

the one before that was 10500ish/ 9500/ 15000ish (didnt cat it so only one i know for sure is drives)Poorly loaded, tandems were set back to 41...I had trouble climbing icy hills though since i had no weight on the drives.

 

Blah you ppl over think...

Just say 40000

Remove the last 2 numbers....that's the shift per hole.

25000 .... 250.... and so on.

Sure it depends on how they have it loaded.
But that's a good guideline.

 

Many states don't limit the steers to 12000, some allow close to 20000. It's a common misconception, but the 12000 number just comes from 80000 - (2*34000) = 12000. If you're under on your drives and/or tandems, you can be over on your steers while still being under the gross limit.

 

350-400 lbs / 6" hole. However this depends completely on how its loaded and sometimes it may be wild like 250 or 500. Scale it do the math slide it reweigh. Spend the extra $2 it beats the hell out of a ticket.

 

You take the first scale, move it a couple of notches...then reweigh and adjust accordingly....my last load had 550 lbs per hole.

 

depends on trailer brand etc.....

If you are company driver or pulling company trailers then they SHOULD have some sort of chart or something to reference. We do anyway.

 

This is what I have always used with 53' trailers. And 500 both 5th. wheel and trailer on 48' trailers back in the day.
I would weigh, then slide using above numbers, NEVER re-weigh, and not once in 20 years have I ever had a problem at a scale....so if those numbers aren't right....they're close enough to satisfy D.O.T.