I think I'm over weight

VLAD does not know what he is saying. You are at least 11500 over on your drives. Potentially 2000 on up in overaxle fines. Maybe against you maybe against the company. Maybe even 10,000 dollar ticket on that overaxles. Plural.

Your trailer tandems need to be moved UP forward towards the drives. I think 14500 is what you have room for.

So... 12000 pounds to move off your drives call em 500 pounds a hole... 24 holes or around 20+ feet up. USE a chalk marker (A childs crayon white chalk....) mark the hole you were in and mark where you want to be at least 24 holes up.

Slide them trailer tandems all the way to that mark. Release your pins. RE-Weigh the load at the CAT. You should be under 34000 and 34000 on both your drive tandem and your trailer tandem. (Disregard the forward axle weight. I don't recall them being a problem unless in containers anyway and they were a problem with a very high dangerous level above 130,000 gross anyway)

IF youre fuel is not full, go fill em. Weigh again. You might have to move a hole on the trailer closer to get the room the fuel on your drives.

It is way harder to write this out what to do than it is to actually do it.

VLAD is in very bad need of re-education in Siberia about weights. His lack of knowledge is dangerous to you, a liability TO You and also a very bad liability to the company financially among other things.

 

I'm 5'06", 297 lbs and drive a white Volvo, but I don't wear flip flops... Do you think I'm still over weight?

 

Moving them back adds weight to the drives, so that would make it worse.

You'll probably have to wait for the shipper to open so they can rework the load.

 

i wouldnt move it on any public roads. if you get into a wreck. then your toast.

 

Goodness what are you hauling? Must be a load of track suits and flip flops for Vlad...

 

Yeah, but about that scale ticket. Is that real or did you pull too far forward and get one of the tandems on the same plate as the drives?

 

I appreciate the guidance.

Next time there is a issue, I'll leave it to you to deal with.

Ive had many trailers have 250,500, 750 a hole under there over the years depending on how far apart they were. I have forgotten literally how many holes it takes to move X weight. We can figure that out later when all the necessary holes to get legal are added up and then divided by the weight moved. That should give you your particular poundage per hole for that kind of trailer you have.

IF it was say 250 or 300 a hole, it goes without saying that there will not be enough rail under the trailer floor to slide tandems far enough to move that amount off the drives.

And I am sorry that the assistance you were given was found to be garbage. I don't think we will have to be any further on this problem or any other in the future.

 

Is this a real load? Where are you starting, and delivering?
I never had a trailer with 25 holes. Only 14 holesI thinks. I'm not counting my holes on this 48 foot van. But wide space holes are usually 500lbs per hole and small spaced are 250lbs I believe.
Sliding fifth wheel is usually 500 lbs per hole.