WEIGHT AND SLIDING AXELS

You are 1220 before 34000 on your trailer.

You sadly are 1840 over on your drives. Your load is too nose heavy.

Even if you moved tandems up two holes you will be still 620 over on your drives.

You need to burn 90 gallons of fuel to get legal on your drives. That means no DOT scales for a minimum of 600 miles.

You appear to be a perfect 80000

You need to return to shipper to rework the load and get that weight out of the nose.

The 5th wheel is 500 per slot that I am familiar with, your weights may vary. You may be able to get it one notch towards the steers. Watch your catwalk clearance.

Get a box of children school chalk sticks. Mark your existing occupied slot, holes before you move so you know where you are at.

 

Yes move your trailer “angels” up 1-3 holes

Typically 250-500 lbs per hole

Some states allow more than 34k per tandem provided you aren’t over gross.

 

What city and state is your pickup and drop offs

Can you slide 5th wheel towards steer axle a couple notches?

 

I have always heard and been taught to start at trailer and work forward. You want as close to 34 on trailer tandems as you can get. Each hole is generally about 350-400 lbs. Sliding tandems to the rear will lighten the weight on them. Get the trailer done and then move to the fifth wheel. If memory serves correct each slot is either 100 or 200 lbs I can't remember exactly. Now you want to get as close to 12 on the steer as possible. Doing this in this order will put your drives typically where they need to be and everything else is good to go. I just re read your post and what I would do in your situation is slide the fifth wheel all the way up, scale and go from there. It will be VERY close if your able to get that to scale out without having to rearrange. Best of luck to you!

 

You can probably get away with 12,500 on steer unless you go over gross

 

You can get away with 12500 on the steers. But 12000 would do u fine. Get ur tandems close to 34000 as possible. Of ur 100 or 200 over on tje drives. Just go with it. Ull burn fuel plus u probably have apu. No one will bother you aslong as ir not over gross.

 

Steers don't really matter, HOWEVER...

The next time you get new steer tires, inspect them for weight capacity, get the most you can on each one so you can lawfully carry 12-13K in that range. You can actually go up to 20, but tires that big are not OTR tires.

 

First off.

Slide 5th wheel forward to put weight on steers and leave it there permanently. Then you won't have to screw around with it in the future. As stated. 12500 on the steers. You want that weight with full tanks so if you're not full. Figure math accordingly. 12400, 12300, whatever. Depending on your fuel level.

Then put the rest of the drive weight on trailer by sliding trailer forward.

Basically moving 1000 to steers and remaining 820 to trailer.

 

Anything short of 12 on steers takes away from your 80 gross. If you're pulling a standard tandem trailer.

Anything Over 12 gives you wiggle room for drives and tandems.