I hold the record...

Hey whatever works.For me after two or three times and stubborn tandems I start to lose my patience

 

The westbound side? Eastbound isn't even used anymore.

 

I like the PB Blaster or Liquid Wrench myself. That and liberal use of a rolling trailer spike and those pesky pins don't stand a chance.

 

Record you say? pffft.

Here's my record scale ticket:

Started with:

Ended with:

Dog food.

Edit: it looks like I just moved the fifth wheel and moved along.. what's missing is the other 4-5 scale tickets where I tried everything including jumping jacks next to the truck to lose some weight before driving it. Finally ended up with a ticket that said 80k and decided that it's not worth it. Scale was about 100 miles away and I figured I'd burn fuel.

That's what I got for showing up to a Purina plant with full tanks.

All the scales I passed that day were closed..... -_-

 

yep west bound. this was in 2012.

 

Hey, 80k is as heavy as it gets when that's the legal limit. If I could legally haul 200k, I would be posting scale tickets with 199980 on them and have the same remarks.

 

That was basically the plan. I didn't get to test it, thankfully.

Next time I went back to that shipper, I thought I was being so smart when I showed up with 1/4 tank though. And then scaled at 89k. Then they reworked and I had 37k on drives with tandems all the way up.

I think it's just the dog food. I don't like it at all.

 

When I was with Swift we sometimes had loads with instructions to show up with half tanks or less. Otherwise it was a service failure. I remember picking up a load of baking soda IIRC near Little America, WY with 3/8 tanks.

After adjusting the weights with close to 34K on the trailer tandems I calculated that I could get a maximum 1/2 tank to cross any scale. I scored a LOT of shower credits on that run.

Now I run a split axle flatbed. I've CAT scaled this exactly three times in the last 16 months. Once to get my tare weight to let brokers know how much I can load.

Heaviest I've been with this trailer was 84K, a load of "bottom tools" going to get scrapped. Weighed on the scales into the scrap yard and on the way out. Inbound they used a Geiger counter on the load to make sure it wasn't hot. Unloading was unique, they had me unstrap the load, pull the pipe stakes on the opposite side, then a bulldozer pushed the entire load off. Talk about deafening noise, each 40' long drill collar of solid nickel weighed at least 4,000 lbs.