mercer transportation

The load center is always the center point between the kingpin and the center of the trailer axles. Takes less than a minute to figure out with a tape measure.

Note: that is the actual load bearing center point that will equally distribute weight between your drives and trailer axles. Always look under a trailer to find if it has a reinforced area that most refer to as a "coil package" to find the point the trailer is the strongest at for supporting concentrated heavy loads, which may or may not be the loaf bearing center.

 

I would think it would depend on if you're going to run the axles open or closed.

 

Gonna run em open

 

Stupid question, are those shipped in super sacks or in solid form on pallets? Or neither? LOL

 

I think its the 2' dia round rods...I'll let ya kno

 

Anyone here running a conestoga or rolling tarp system? I'm thinking of getting me one.

 

CJ has a conestoga.

 

It's a different point open vs closed but it's measured the same way.

also some trailers are not meant for concentrated loads, they are spec'd to be as light as possible and are designed for loads distributed across most of the full length of the trailer. Some megas have them. Then there are trailers meant for increasingly concentrated loads like Reitnouer Big Bubba and the one more heavy duty than it. 65K in 4 ft I think is the rating .... don't have to worry too much about any legal load on those.

 

Then I would load a little more toward the rear.

 

Never hauled itiout of SC, but I have hauled carbon out of Hickman, KY.

Looked like this,