Interesting gauge....

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Commuter69, Jul 4, 2016.

  1. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    Note the small gauge at the bottom. It has the symbol of "pressing down at the 5th wheel" in it, and reading about 60 PSI
     
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  3. Balakov100

    Balakov100 Road Train Member

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    62 psi was about 34,000 on the Freightliners I have driven.

    Just scale like you normally would, take a look at it if you're close to 34k on drives.
     
  4. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    34000 was about 61 psi on the Cascadia I use to drive. Get a heavy load and scale it out, take note of where the needle is, also if your sitting up hill or downhill it will effect the readout,,,, 5th wheel was always pretty much in the same place, so not sure on that.

    But always get a scale ticket, for the last bunch of loads I did in the Cascadia I almost never reweighed, managed on a few occasions to guess the hole correctly on a 79k+ load
     
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