loads shifting causing overwieght ticket

For me a hard braking "event" is getting above 20 psi on the service brakes. Stop and go traffic doesn't mean you have to race up to "avoid getting cut off" and then slam on the brakes. Keep a speed where you never or seldom have to stop.

Always drive as if your load is a tanker and your load won't shift. Anyone remember the dry van carrying an unsecured forklift running on LNG that slammed on the brakes? Happened last year. The forklift slid forward and the forks went through the front of the trailer and punctured the LNG tank. The explosion caused the drive train to embed into the road, the passenger was thrown 30' out the windshield, and the driver didn't have an open casket funeral. Both died instantly.

Take everything nice and easy, especially if you are hooking to a sealed trailer. You don't know how well it was loaded or secured.

 

You sure your drives were 100% on the platform? I'm having a hard time imagining a way they could have loaded it where 2,000 lbs could have transferred to the drives. Does your second gross equal your first gross?

But you'll figure it out.

 

Yes, slamming on the brakes will shift your load.

Yes, 2500+ can shift with ease.

I got popped 1700 over on my trailer. As I pulled around, I brake checked. Pulled right back on the scale and my weight was fine. Of course I was pulling an end dump with a load of coal, so there was no risk of damaged product...however, the concept is the same. Newton explained it back in the 1600's with his 1st law of motion: "An object that is in motion will not change its velocity unless an external force acts upon it." The freight in your trailer is in motion right along with your truck, and if you stop your truck quicker than what the friction of the load against the floor can hold, the load will slide forward, and it will continue sliding forward until meeting enough resistance (friction with the floor, the wall of the trailer, the back of your cab, etc...) to bring it to a stop.

 

Sorry lol.a member called me bro,i told him I'm not a bro,lol.

 

This is why you run at night,when most scales are closed.