Shut Down at the Scale...44,000 on my spread

Yeah, I forgot he was pulling a SD trailer. I fixed my response lol

 

I think you could have used an 8' piece of dunnage as a bar and gotten enough leverage to inch them forward one at a time by hand. 6k lbs ? especially if there was a place to park facing downhill should have slid easy.

 

Glad to hear you got the issue fixed. If you were still there Wens. I would of brought you a coffee..
Hope it does not hurt the wallet to much, But we learn by our mistakes. Trust me, been there done that..
Just not at a scale house though..

 

Just be thankful you weren't like the Mercer driver I talked to today at the Town Pump in Shelby,MT. He tried to pull a load out of Alberta that was 32,000 on his spread...cost him $2,230.00 for his mistake. Wonder if Mercer is gonna help out on that one. Western Canada counta a 10 2 spread as a single axle with max weight of 20060 lbs. He also got fined for logbook violations also, but thats a different story.

 

for future reference. you can slide the 5th wheel all you want. the weight on the trailer is fixed. and won't adjust. unless you got sliding tandems.

sliding the 5th wheel only shifts the weight between drives and steers.

but i'm curious as to whose idea it was to load that far back anyways. cuz the shipper should have known better. since that's what they do.

you might be wise to install a air gauge on that trailer. and your truck too if you don't have one.

 

That was a cheap fix to the problem. Well worth it in the long run.

 

Glad you got it fixed and did it the right way.