Overweight on my drive axle 34340lbs, can I slide my 5th wheel?

The way I slide it, crank the landing gear all the way down and some. Dump the air bags. I lock the power divider and try to rock it back and forth easy if it’s stuck. If it doesn’t slide, the pins are probably not unlocking all the way out.

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Spray some kind of lubricant WD 40 or whatever you have.

 

Fines differ however even if you did get stopped last I heard Georgia charges 5 cents per pound over. If this is still in place you are looking at around $18 plus whatever the court might add. I used to run 300 and 400 pounds over on my tandems a good bit. Hard to avoid and 300 pounds over you try getting that reworked the dock managers will laugh at you!

 

My friend , i had pick up at tayson foods at little rock ar . I was coming back from scale to the warehouse 4 times for reworking. I really didn’t have enough energy to come back for 5th time . The problem was only one pallet . And they messed it .

 

Tnx so much my friend. Be safe on the road

 

You're good - 1% tolerance.

 

I know many of us know tolerance. But Cali doesn’t use the same rule book. I was inside the scale north of Redding while they were telling a guy he was going to have to move 500 pounds off his drives by hand. He couldn’t slide it, and they weren’t letting him go. He was not over gross.

Grocery load, bolt sealed.

 

I just passed weight station in Mississippi on I 22 Fulton . Got a green light . Tnx you guys again

 

You probably burned off enough fuel for it not to matter. 350 pounds comes out to around 50 gallons in fuel or 400 miles at most.

 

I can only make two comments. The first comment you can run into a Richard Cranium running a scale most anywhere in the US stay in this business long enough and you will find one. Thankfully most weight enforcement officers are not that way, even in California. Back in the 80s and 90s Ohio and Illinois were really tough. The thing is and most weight enforcement officers will tell you this as well. Those scales are notorious for not being accurate. In fact, those old static scales were always way off. In fact, some did not even work. those old Toombsuba Mississippi scales stayed out of service more then they were active. Mississippi finally shut them down, then about 10 years ago rebuilt them. This is why most officers don't get too excited until the overweight gets much past 1000 or more pounds. Many times in these boards I have told drivers to NOT believe me on this, go ask them. In states like Virginia and Arkansas, trucks are hitting those scales all day long. The internals of those scales can't stand up to that.

The next comment is sometimes a driver develops diarrhea of the mouth, smarts off at the officer and then the game is on. Back in the 90s I was eastbound on I 70 and got stopped by Kansas. I did have a log problem. Officer was looking at my logs. Another officer close by had his parentage disputed and the officer with me just gave my log back told me to fix it and get out of his scale.

I don't doubt your story one bit. I'm just attempting to let you know that sometimes there are (other) explanations for this. Now I don't tell drivers to flaunt the weight laws. That is a stupid thing to do. However, there are times when you can get stuck with an unfixable load and you are only a few hundred pounds over. I would be willing to wager at least 90% of the time you will get on through with no issues.

 

It takes more then 50 gallons to burn off 350 pounds.

Depending on his setup. There's probably around 200 pounds that will burn off the steers also.

He would need to burn off at least 550 pounds of fuel. Roughly speaking.

You're not going to lose weight off the drives only. Steers factor in also.