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

Where about in Michigan? One compartment or multiple? Lots of feed mills and gravel pits have scales they will let you play on if they are not busy. Fwiw friend of mine called ahead to a scale and told them what he was trying to do and would they help him be legal. They agreed and closed the scale and were a big help getting everything set right. He couldn't get it to scale full and the officer said now you know so don't let me catch you this full again

 

quit.

if anything goes wrong, as in, an accident and your over weight , they will hang you out to dry.

it's all on you with no company backup

I wouldn't do it, if you have no way of doing it correctly/legally.

 

I always enjoyed explaining how to scale liquids.
You should see the un-believing looks first time a trainee gets out after leaving the parking brakes off on a platform scale...I'm 1/2 way to the scale house and they are still standing there, door open, in dis-belief that it is simply rolling back and forth a foot or so and has not rolled away, yet.....but he is ready!

One old tank farm made us drop weigh all tank loads [ancient scale that wasn't long enough for a 42 foot trailer and a puppy dog mack] making a compartment load [un-baffled chem trailer] a long affair as you had to wait for each product to settle down watching the scale needle moving up and down as the liquid(s) moved around.

 

I would think that setting the regulators about 50-60psi would be a good place to start based on stuff I’ve run in the past. When I got a new 4 axle truck and 4 axle flatbed I was at a Cat scale for close to an hour re-weighing over and over until everything was right. And that was for one lift on the trailer, one lift on the truck, and getting my 5th wheel right to get weight on my steer without cutting my inner bridge down.

 

It’s not too much to ask for a hand, but your original post said you wanted them to set it up and then give it to you. As far as getting weight onto your drives that would come from dropping air from your forward axles and increasing the pressure in your rear axles, if it’s your drives you’re talking about wanting to get to 32-34.

 

I would start with 5 psi on each end. Take 5 psi from the front axles, add 5 psi to the back axles. The only thing I’ve run that’s even close to what you’re talking about was a 5 axle flatbed that was a front lift, three stationary axles, and rear lift. When I pulled that I ran the lift pressures the same and it seemed to balance. That’s not near the weight that you’re hauling, but maybe a good starting point for a reset to see where you are on your drives.

 

First with liquids worry about your gross. Then once you have that if all your compartments are full your done . Just adjust your lift axle pressure. If you have room left in your compartments then you gotta figure it out ….

If you got any mt space in the front trailer I’d have it in the front compartment….. the rest I can’t help you with….

we hauled 10,500 diesel on 6 axles or 12,000 gas …..

 

Most CO-OPs have scales and will scale the public too. Some are platform but I have seem a few axle scales too.