over loaded

Ohio was the same way. I was not over gross but way over on the drives and they told me to flip em to get legal and keep going or sit. I put like a 12 up front with something like a 22 on the back and away I went swerving down I71..lol..

Out here I just sign the ticket and away I go keeping the heavy one up front. People in the I95 region just seem to have more common sense..

 

Speaking of overloaded.. A picture says a thousand words..

 

You also have to remember that some states wont let you leave the scale house if you are overweight or over axel. You either have to shift the weight or get rid of the excess weight, so, paying the fine may be the least of your worries.

 

And it can be so much fun dragging 100 pound boxes of meat from front to back or shoveling sand or meal from back to front! Get it right before you leave a shipper and save a lot of pain down the road!

 

Sometimes it's just a little harder than doing your job. What if you're loaded and the only place you can check the load is beyond the state weigh station?

What you need to do is weigh your truck with full tanks and you in the cab with the trailer empty. If you haul different types of trailers then I would weigh them also. It's worth the few dollars if you load to the max all the time. Then you'll have a good idea on how much weigh can be loaded.

Try loading gasoline where the weight changes with temperature and the company wants every gallon loaded. Best to have a calculator ready.

 

Another tip I found for trailers that have slide-able tandems........

If your tractor has the air guage that tells you the air pressure of the drive-axle air springs, start off by sliding the tandems all the way to the back. Give it a second or two to for the suspension to adjust for the weight change. Look to see how much air pressure the guage reads and note it. Then, slide the axles all the way to the front and see how much air bleeds off from that guage once everything is equalized. Now if you want to have an equal amount of weight on the drives and tandems, slide the axles towards the back until the suspension air pressure needle points to the halfway point between the two pressures you wrote down. This is also a good way to see if you are overweight or gonna have issues with respectin any states bridelaw if you go through one or two that has one because if that guage reads more than like a sixteenth of an inch past the 60 psi mark, you are quite possibly over 34k on your drives.

 

I dunno...looks more aerodynamic to me!

 

Been there, used to haul Butane and Natural Gasoline in my early days. Used to load with a percwntage dial on the trailer and always need the calculator and do the math cause of the weight due to temperature. Boy, those where the good ole days........

 

check your gauges, get an actual weight on your drives, say 16000kgs look at your sus gauge say 60lbs divide 60 into 16000=266 write that down, now you will always know what you have on your drives. 50lbs x 266 =13300kgs
P.S. it's never harder than doing your job, it is your job just do it and take a little pride in it