Load distribution

Last time I loaded steel out of Norfolk Nebraska I bought a set of them pull on long sleeves for $5. Much better than a long sleeve shirt when it's hot out.

 

I just got a long sleeve t shirt.

 

Creeps me out to wear a long sleeve shirt without a short sleeve shirt under it.

 

Well you're just defective.

 

Ok, might have been the wrong thread but I'll blame it on the heat exhaustion. I had the opportunity to taste the same water twice, on the way down then on the way back up!

While we're here... That material is offset about 1.5 feet towards the back.

38" of deck at the front and a few inches at the back. The top single bundle is back an additional 1' because I could tell by the gauges before it was set down that it would need it (and the crane operator started the rest of it slightly further forward than I wanted).

My drives scales at 40,160 lbs (40,000 lbs allowed) with fuel to burn.

 

What were your trailer weights? What's allowed?

 

74,160 lbs on the trailer, 74,900 lbs allowed. I'd say that's not bad!

 

I ran into someone today who didn't completely understand the effect of sliding a 5th wheel. Does this help anyone?

 

A thousand times this. All of our trucks and trailers are equipped with air gauges and they, for the most part, are all calibrated as equally as possible. I can tell by my truck gauge within 500 lbs about how much weight is on the drives just by the psi reading and experience with constantly loading different weights on it.

The closest I've got was 37,100 lbs at 71 psi, with 37,500 being the allowed maximum. When it's that or lower, I know I'm good.

I'm one of the few people at my company that can successfully load a set of B-trains without needing adjustment (except steel, steel is always a pain). And it comes all from reading the gauges and doing the math to figure out where the rest of the weight needs to go.

 

Do you guys with b trains have regulators on your lift axles to help adjust your axle weights?