Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

How do you guys get your axle weights rite when you load? I have a gauge on my dash for the drives but the trailer is what I was wondering. Just add an air gauge somewhere on the trailer?

 

You got it! Or if they are real crafty and smart (not that anyone here isn't) they run a gauge into the cab so they don't have to get out and suckin all that dust...

 

You don't have a gauge mounted on the trailer that can be seen by someone passing by do you?

 

Good deal! I had a buddy I used to run with that had one mounted on the back of his wagon. I told him he had a couple of choices....take it off, turn it around, don't wait on me, or I'd beat it with a hammer! He couldn't understand why? For some reason he didn't get the fact that it was pointing straight back and if DOT would have pulled up behind him, they could see it, and with what we was hauling and the state we was in we didn't need any trouble. I don't know how many guys I see going up the road with an air gauge in plain view for DOT to see...

 

No we are steel haulers, it was a covered wagon.

Dang that is lazy, you don't even have to get out of the truck...LOL

 

I really dont understand why guys have them but they do? My dad was looking at a covered wagon that had an electric roll tarp on it, for what we do sometimes it would be a hassle. It would be easier but alot more expensive to put a conastoga on it.

I've always wanted to pull a hopper bottom but never had the opportunity, kindof glad now after what you guys have been saying.