Load Weight

Run it you will burn the weight in fuel and for 40 lbs there not going to say anything

 

hammer down

 

40 over is on;ly over in Colorado. lol

 

It depends on the situation. You usually have quite a bit of leeway (in practice). It depends on who you are dealing with.

weigh in motion scales aren't very accurate so they give quite a bit of leeway, it usually takes a couple-few k over for them to flag you in to stop on the scale for an "accurate" weigh.

Depends on who is checking and what mood they are in.

Technically, you are overweight on an axle or group. They could give you a ticket for it, but usually you would need to provoke them into doing it. And if they do just give you an overweight ticket, just eat it and move on. It's the least evil of the evils out there. You give them a hard time and they will find some obscure thing to give you a failed inspection in addition to being "overweight", you don't want that.

They aren't that strict with weights. They only real time they are is when you do something you shouldn't. Get caught on a restricted road or bridge, give them attitude.... Then they will pile on everything they can find to write you up for.


I wouldn't worry about 5-800lbs over, but that's just me, it also depends on where i'm running. Burning fuel also reduces weight. Sure, I might get a ticket for it, but it's faster to pay the ticket and keep on moving than to wait around and have the load reworked. reworking the load is usually more expensive to me, out west anyway. not "mid-west" but west coast, well, maybe not Washington State...

 

Your weights are ok. That could be explained in tolerance of the scale. Or even wind.

Co. allows 35k on tandems. As long as gross of 80k isn't over.

 

Slide your drivers seat 2 clicks forward..

Seriously, you are good to go.

 

40 lbs over in MS? Dead meat

Criminal



J/k. You’re good. You’ll burn that off in no time

 

Boost the steers to 13k?

 

Example.

170 miles at 7 mpg = 24.28 gallons

24.28 gallons at 7.1 lbs per gallon = 172.10 lbs.

All comes off the drives, you'll burn the weight before you get there.

Learn the math driver.

Useful when you need to be careful how much fuel to put on.