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Message:: [QUOTE="Truckerbase, post: 12220564, member: 339121"]I’ve just begun a job hauling cement powder for a company as new to pneumatic bulk trailers as I am. Today I hauled a freuhof 3 hopper pneumatic trailer of around 40 or so feet to pick up cement powder using a freight liner day cab. I was told to load to 78,500 gross. Hauling through Colorado got pulled into a scale with 37,000 lb on drive tandems, 31,000 on trailer tandems. Trailer was loaded through rear top manhole, and although I did drive through mountain grades, I had no unusual braking events. Cement powder shifted from back to front to be overweight (no baffles above hoppers). We have overweight permit to 36,000 on drive tandems, but still 1,040 over. I believe shifting the 5th wheel so that kingpin is further from the cab may solve this, but company and management is clueless. Do I load for a lower weight? Is the trailer not intended for cement powder? Are the absence of baffles abnormal? Experienced advice much appreciated! Thank you![/QUOTE]