Overweight on Steers

It is possible you had some of your drives -BARELY- on the steer platform, especially if you have a fairly short wheel base. always pays to make a visual inspection until you're comfortable with what you're doing pulling on the scale.

 

Thats not true about the tires popping. They will just need to replace due to wear quicker. I haul containers I have 57000 in the box fixed tandem axles on trailer so you can imagine what my scale ticket would read.

 

That was mainly a figure of speech and not intended literally, but rather to make a point. Roll across a scale with 14,200 on a steer, and obviously not permitted or spec'd for heavy-haul, you're asking to get looked at real hard. I'd hate to drive a fleet truck with 14k on the steer. They're bad enough at 12k

 

re scale somewhere to make sure it wasn't a fluke. If you do not have a sliding 5th wheel have the shop move it back. Bring them the scale ticket so they know how much to move it back. Each hole is +/- 500 lbs on the steer.

 

What kind of truck? Year?

 

I'll bet you they had about an inch of the drive footprint on the steer platform

 

Tandems won't take weight off steers he has to move 5th wheel which he can't since it's fixed

 

I had an '11 Cascadia that was set up wrong with a 5th wheel that didn't move. Just when I told the kid I had as a trainee he was about to learn how un bolt and rebolt a fifth wheel and mounting plate at a truck stop, they gave me knew truck, that never had a problem.
Even the APU won't put you over that much.
And never in a million years are you gonna adjust that much out of your steers sliding the tandems.
The most your gonna get out with your tandems is about 400 pounds, from my experience.
You can run half fuel, that's your best bet, until you get back to the yard, and tell them to fix that POS or just do it yourself. I'd move it back 3 holes in the mounting plate, that 1500 pounds. My Volvo had a sliding Fontaine, those were only 300 a hole.
I wouldn't even consider going OTR again with a rig that didn't have an adjustable 5th wheel.
The Cascadia I mentioned didn't have an APU either, it was just set wrong, many times over 400 or 500 pounds, I was gonna move it back 2 slots.
Your the one that's gonna get the ticket & the CSA points.
Good luck.

 

He should be asking other drivers at his company what they do.Doubt he's the one with a stationary fifth wheel.