3 crates weight distribution

My truck is heavy and you'd have to set that 23k lber on my bulkhead for it to matter. Stop overthinking it. If you have to tarp set them up to make it easy to tarp, if not then just do the 23ker in the middle.

 

You have a spread? One foot back from centre. Big one in the middle, small ones on either end.

My truck is 11,400-12,500-9,000 with a triaxle, and we load up to 45-46,000 one foot back from centre and it usually scales out around 11,600-31,500-35,000.

You can get into the finer details, determine the load's "linear weight" by taking it's weight and divide it's by it's length, then get them to move it the desired amount to get it closer to perfect, but I find running as low as 30,000 on the drives in winter (in Canada) is fine. Closer to 34,000 is ideal, but we don't live in an ideal world and shippers aren't that cooperative.

 

I've found that (for my truck and the trailers I pull), finding the center point between the king pin and the mid-point of the spread works out perfectly for the front timber on a coil rack. In other words, 1' behind that is where I want my load centered for a balanced ride...puts my drives and trailer axles within 500# of each other. I usually tell them "center the load here", because they all seem to want to load it heavy to the rear, and the farther forward I tell them to center the load the closer they get it to where I want it.

For the load the OP talked about, center the heavy crate wherever you decide the "middle" of the trailer should be...then the others on either end. Should be fairly balanced and pull easy enough.

Personally, I don't like having my trailer more than 1000# heavier than my drives, and prefer the drives to be a little heavier than the trailer IF possible without being over-axle. It is also easier on the trailer tires going around corners if you don't load them any more than absolutely necessary even though it is "legal" to do so.

 

40' of deck. 2'mt first small box 2'mt. Big box 2'mt small box 2'mt..

 

Why have space in between them? Now the rear two aren't blocked against forward movement and will need a second strap for the first 10'.

 

He would need more than 1 no matter what. Weight and divisible

 

I meant he could cut out two straps out of the total if the crates are butted up against one another. Leaving space just makes for extra work.

 

Gotcha, but being divisible and concidering the length of each box, how is going to eliminate a few straps?