Getting axles to scale

His first question was "How do I get more weight on drives". Thats how I read it.

 

Sliding ahead will take weight from the drives and put it on the steer. I thought his original question was about his trailer axles being so far apart on weight. Lol

 

It can add to steers and drives.

 

If he has a set back fld and forward tanks your almost always gonna have 12k on steers.

 

Changing fifth wheel position will not affect trailer axle weight. It will only change the distribution between the drives and steer.

 

I agree that moving the 5th wheel forward won't do anything to change the axle weight issue.

I run a 48ft flat every day, loaded with 45-48k on the deck. While I rarely scale loads, when I do, I've never seen a weight difference like that, that I can recall.

Because you're weighing at a scale at the shipper which you said has a slight incline when pulling on, I could see this issue happening. Best way is to get an unloaded weight and then loaded weight on a Cat scale.

 

Probably a Detroit. Cat or N14 normally more than that. I've ran and owned plenty of them. Mines a 120 classic with forward 120 gal tanks. If I break 11,000 on steers, I'm over 100k gross.

 

One of the brokers had a 9400 set back with the tanks forward. By the time he had eastern weight on the drives he was 13,500 or more on the front if the fuel tanks were full, no matter where he put the wheel.