sliding tandems

Rule of thumb is move em towards the problem

 

Yeah I know. I was mainly talking about one specific beer customer but not sure if I could name drop. We only pulled for one beer customer. And I always went in full of fuel.

 

Yep, that is how I do it also. It is about where your rear tandem is compared to the rear of the load. Set the tandem in this place, scale out, adjust if needed.

 

I see a lot of talk here that seems to indicate all loads are "equal in density (weight), front to back". In a perfect world perhaps, but trucking does not exist in that world.

To me this is common sense and I might assume everyone would consider this, but alas, I'm learning that there are some coming into the trade who don't fully engage their intellectual side of their brain (whatever amount they may have) when they really need to.

I just want the new guys to understand that there are lot's of "mixed shipments" out there. Multi-pickups, shipments from distributors, etc that can have a wide variance in weight per cubic foot from one part of the trailer to another, and these need to be looked at very carefully in regards to axle weights.

 

Sliding tandems is pretty easy to figure out, as far as shifting axle weights. What I don't understand is why some loads are heavy on the steer axle, but only once in maybe 100 loads? They look the same, weight comparable....I really don't like moving my 5th wheel for one load. I don't like moving it at all, for that matter. Pain in the backside hitting that little slot.

Some driver once told me that the wide spaced holes in the tandem rail = about 500lbs, and the closer spacing was 250-300lbs, but I can't say I've bothered to do any testing. If it rides good I don't weigh, if it's over 40K load I usually weigh, that's about it.

 

COMMON SENSE ISN'T VERY COMMON