scaling a spread axle

if you're under 80k gross and under 32k on your front tandems (back of tractor,) don't worry about the back tandems. you'll be OK. the scale house doesn't look at individual axle weight.

 

Depends on the state. Steele MO does.

 

Ohio does also!

Like someone said, as long as its airride it will usually equal out. Just watch how far back you load stuff. If you have on 48' beams put your last board that the beams are gonna sit on no farther back than the hanger to be safe.

 

I wouldn't think that an air ride could "screw up"? I thought that the air ride trailers only have 1 air ride height adjustment valve.. The pressure would equalize in the system and the weight would be equal on both axles?

I never axeled a spread... I've been driving since 1988 and to this day I have never had a problem!

 

They can screw up but it doesn't happen often. Reitenour has a valve that the air goes thru before it goes to the bags. Sometimes that valve goes bad and you could have problems.

 

You are right air ride has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with axle weight if it's properly inflated. It is possible to be "over" on one axle or the other. On a CAT scale tell them you have to split trailer axles, ask for seperate stamp on each axle.

 

With all due respect I will have to say you are wrong I have a scale ticket to prove so.

Gross weight =78,760 Front Tandems =25,260

Front axle on spread =21,480 Back axle on Spread =22,200

You are allowed 20k on each axle in the spread I was over by 3,680lbs. The weight is not evenly distributed I'm quessing because I had so much back there.

When I got on the scale he did split my axles this was in Louisiana.

Your right it usually does but this time it did not.
It was a load of pipe and my problem was I had the load to far to the back on a step deck and my boards should have been moved up.

Look at my axles weights on the first response.

 

Being that heavy on the back I'll bet that pulled like crap!

 

Actually it wasn't bad. It seems to me it would have also pulled really rough but it didn't.