Overweight on Steers

you need to slide the fifth wheel all the way back, depending on how many notches you have available, this will bring your steers down under 12, and raise the drives but ya might get close enough..also, fuel accounts for some of that weight

 

There are two places you have to check to find out what the maximum allowable weight is on your steers. The first is on the side wall of your tires. The second is located on the sticker on the inside frame of your drivers door. The first tells you the weight allowed by the tires, the second is the weight allowed by the axle. Whichever weight is lower is the weight you are allowed on your steers. Most driving schools teach this incorrectly. 12,000 is not a set number for the weight. 20,000 on one axle is. So, the OP could have be perfectly legal. Myself, I prefer to be 12,500 or so as that means I can shorten the gap between tractor and trailer thus getting better fuel economy.

If you haven't done so before, check for you allowable weights.

 

LOL... My steers are 13,400 bobtail.

 

Yeah but you have a real truck though lol.

 

Are you flat bed or refer?

 

Your own weight is on the steers. So quit whining and quit skipping your Jenny Craig meetings.

 

Your 5th wheel is not moveable. Take the weight on the steers and be done with it.

Your company should have a movable 5th wheel frankly. A dab of that will knock that steers off a little better. I don't like to be close to 14K or over at all. Most of my trucks Ive had were fuel tanks close to the drives and no APU back in those days either.

 

Fill the tires with helium. All fixed.

 

The faster you drive along the curvature of the earth, the less weight you will apply to the ground. That’s the easiest way to manage overweight problems. If you reach terminal velocity, back off just a bit.

 

Those numbers don’t sound right because of drives showing lighter than trailer . Steers should be fine. The numbers don’t make sense.

 

Erm, Ive been working on that.

He probably has a tractor badly designed with fuel tanks near the front, APU close to the tanks and so on. Some of the newer tractors make me wonder. We had tractors for decades with fuel tanks close to the drives and so on to keep as much off the steers as possible

Sometimes I want to commit crimes against our stupid engineers in the truck factory whoever they are.