Not quite sure what setback axle is too be honest. It’s a peterbilt 567 with a 72 inch sleeper. The weight is about the same as yours full of fuel anyway only weighed three times were all a little different but 27k-29k was the highest have the sheets in the truck but not with me at home. Making more sense on the weight that’s about what I was loaded at this last time from what I was watching.
Hopper bottom loading
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Setback axle
No setback axle.
If you have a load suspension gauge, start watching it, my T660 gauge and another guy with same type truck as yours loaded to 45 then you go to back hopper, depending on where you load, it’s like shifting your axles.
I start on front hopper, right behind Dolly legs.
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I load right behind the second one on front hopper, infront of 4th one on back hopper, my trailer gauge loaded is 62, might be a little different on that one, but not much, can fine tune with time.
That’s not a setback axle, so you may not get a lot of weight on steer.
Might have to move 5th wheel up some.redcrab Thanks this. -
there’s mine, and where I load the back hopper, that’s Brewers Rice.
Load all products same spot, rough rice you may have to add a pile of cup weight is low,Speed_Drums and HopperHauler Thank this. -
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Everything already mentioned is good advice. I pretty well only pull a triple axle trailer anymore, with a pusher on the truck.
When I pulled a tandem I usually split it with a little more in the back than the front. I usually only haul in the prairie provinces and ND, so it's really not that often I have to be too perfect on weights. I don't haul anything too exotic either, grains and fertilizer, maybe DDGS and feed pellets once in a while.
@Long FLD and @Judge have good advice for the kind of hauling you're talking about. I don't think you can go wrong taking advice from them.Roberts450, Long FLD, 88 Alpha and 4 others Thank this. -
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