Overweight on Drives

Hey all, new to hauling non-dry van loads and my last couple have been overweight on the drives. I had a 48’ hopper and a 45’ 7000 gal tanker both fixed axles at rear of trailer. Now the hopper was 81k on gross (had to get a permit) and 36k on drives. The tanker was 79,500 gross with 35,400 on drives. I moved my fifth wheel forward as far as I could and I was still at 34,800 (half tank of fuel to boot) with about 12,900 on steers.

I’ve never had weight issues before but the only thing I can think of is I recently put on a headache rack with chains and binders, surely adding about a thousand pounds. Do I just need to stipulate hauling maybe a max of 42k loads? I’m stumped here

 

Weight on trailer axles for the tanker was 31,900 on this last load. I appreciate the advice on the tanker and hopper loading, but I’m leased on with a company that does power only loads, never know what I’m walking into. Full disclosure: I was guessing on the tanker length, didn’t actually measure. All I know is it was 7000 gal only filled with about 4300 gal. No baffles, pushing me back and forth like crazy back there.

 

####. Didn’t know about that but makes perfect sense. Sitting at a pilot in Midland, TX and looking around at all the tankers and I see a bunch right off hand.

The only thing I know about trucking is how little I know about trucking, lol. Thanks guys