first, slide your tandem's all the way to the front of the trailer. this should simplify by making the trailer axels the higher weight. scale. now look at your ticket, cell phones have calculators so it's really very simple. you of course have three weights on your ticket. steer axels, drive axels, trailer axels. since you slid you tandems all the forward then your trailer weight should be the higher weight. subtract your lesser weight from your higher weight. divide that number by two. now divide that number by 225. what ever that final number is, slide your tandems back that number.
example.
11,640 steers
32,460 drives
34,840 trailer
34,840 - 32,460 = 2,380
2,380 divided by 2 = 1,190
1,190 divided by 225 = 5.28
slide your tandems 5 holes towards the back of the trailer.
I have reweighed many times to double check this system and it has been correct every time, in fact it has been within a couple hundred pounds of being an even distribution of weight. 34,840 - 1,190 = 33,650
32,460 + 1,190 = 33,650 these numbers I used here were random numbers I made up but you should get the idea, once you have done it a few times it will second nature, as a matter of fact I have not done a reweigh in 4 or 5 years and have never had a problem, in fact usually get a green light on prepass.
hope this can be some help
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I hate math....
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Commuter69, Jul 29, 2016.
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