Is it my responsibility to scale the truck and axle out?

The liquid will move and not give an accurate reading UNLESS you leave the brakes off which may be difficult on some scales.

 

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Remember when you were in school and asked “When will I ever use math?”
This is it.

 

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Isn't it pretty much pointless to even try and get a tanker to axle out anyway for that reason. Unless you are pulling a compartmentalized fuel trailer maybe

 

I'm guessing your in Michigan? A lot of guys chirping here that have never tried to find an actual axle scale. They're out there but not too many that are advertised. And not too many platform scales are flat enough on the approaches to drive off to get all the axle weights. Plus some of the CAT scales at the truck stops won't go that high. I've been down that road before in Michigan. Huge pita. On the bright side most scales look the other way on axle weights with a liquid multi axle tanker. So do the math and see how close you are to your allowable gross. If your allowable axles weights are over your gross then your good to go. If it's close knock a ton off your payload until the boss loads the trailer and finds a axle scale with flat approaches and accurately axle weighs the ##### thing! Lol it's not much fun getting axle weighed at a rest area or bounced around the back of the scale because you're over on 2 axles out of 8 but under your gross. Been there done that. Good luck with it.