Don't get me started on trainers. When somebody can be a trainer with 6 months experience something is very wrong.
maximum weight per axle?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Pop, May 25, 2013.
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It's easy to describe for anyone who's familiar with the territory...
At around 2300 one night about a month ago I was heading to park along Riverside Drive for a Costco delivery the next morning in Mira Loma CA. Took the eastbound Etiwanda exit off the 60, made the right turn at the light, then, sleepily, I failed to make the next right turn onto Etiwanda.
Missing this turn puts you in a world of hurt. You have to go something like 2 miles to get to the next intersection. I made the hard right at that intersection. There's soon a truckstop-type place on the right you can pull into to get turned around and headed back in the right direction, but alas, I was apparently intent on trapping myself that night, because I kept going straight and turned right at the next light instead.
This was a big mistake (not horrible, just big). I'm pretty sure that once you make this right turn, the only way you're ever getting back out without touching any curb is to back the rig the entire length of an office parking lot, including backing around not one, but two corners of an office building. Once you do this, you can move forward back to the light and head back to Costco. [A truck with a better turning radius might not have to do what I did...I was in an International LoneStar with a ridiculously large turning radius.]
The icing on the cake is the office lot comes replete with a vagrant who will approach you for a handout while you're trying to do all this backing.Last edited: Mar 29, 2018
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I don't want to talk about being lost in NYC (Brooklyn) at night. My thanks to the fire captain and the police he called to help me out of that.MACK E-6 and mathematrucker Thank this. -
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Now,on the weight per axle, some states in the southeast, particularly Florida, have a higher allowance on trailer tandems so the trailer axle isn't so far back, 38k iirc. It works the other way, too. But you would probably have to watch the steer axle.
We have some supersack salt loads on mostly small dimension pallets, those have to be stretched to near 48 foot mark in the trailer by loading 3 singles and a double 3 times for a total of 15 pallets, net weight 42k. Those will make the front axle heavy if you double them too close to the front.
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I give up! If your not going to quote the whole part but only cherry pick your distorting my whole point. YOU might be such a supertrucker you can get 54 K on your truck. However the average mega can't. Most of them have their 5th wheel slides disabled. These guys at best are not going to get much more then maybe 48K and stay legal. If one of these trucks has 20K on the steers they are going to have closer to 40K if not more on the drives. This is for the average hand an illegal weight and MIGHT <<notice I said MIGHT be dangerious depending on a bunch of factors. However if your going to continue to cherry pick I rather you go do it with somebody else!
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I might also add this situation where carriers have disabled the 5th wheel slides is something some drivers are either unaware of or simply don't care about. THIS is why before you get too deep into helping a green driver with a weight problem you should make sure of that. The way these 5th wheels are set it is VERY difficult to load much more then 14K on the steers and have the drives to be legal. As a matter of practice I had rather have my front a bit heavy. It helped me generally much better then being tail heavy.
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