Weight on Steer Axles

When you scale, was that a cat scale or shipper scale? Also if not a full platform scale it needs to be perfectly flat

When scaling, get in position, no movement or rocking, then let off on your brake pedal, then set tractor brakes only, do not set trailer brakes (though doing that wrong usuallyy results in it looking heavier, not lighter)

Thats wood, wood products shippers are mostly useless for knowing what their product weighs, usually the other way "it only weighs 46k" vs it actually being 52k


Depends on your steer axle setup, personally i would like a bit less weight up front, but you may be rated for it (depending on tires) so yeah id move the rails back to get just rear of center a bit of the drives, move it far enough that you have 1 or 2 holes extra behind your normal pin location though

 

You have answered your own question correctly.
to permanently solve this problem you need to unbolt the slides and move them back 6" or so. 1 or 2 holes depending on the spacing.

Find out what the actual front axle rating is.
Frequently trucks will have g rated tires which on a front axle are only good for 12350 (6175 lbs x 2)
You can get H rated tires which ups that to 13,220. See Bridgestone link:
https://az184419.vo.msecnd.net/schneider-trucks/PDF/maintenance/TireLoadRangeGvsH.pdf

In all cases you must stay below the rating of the axle, or tires, whichever is lower.

 

Depends on whether or not the scale guy had an argument with his wife that morning.
You get the picture.
The authorities are more sensitive to overweight on the steer than anywhere else because in the event of a failure, you will have immediate control issues.

 

Depends on the cop?

Others can speak to it better than me, but i somewhat anecdotally think scales just assume 12500 (depending on state) is too high, so they may look at you more often)

Running 12 32 36 steer drive trailer (spread) usually gets me no second look

 

A thought, do you have a chain and tarp storage headache rack on the truck (yet?)

If not, thats going to add some weight in the future, if you do, that might be part of the problem, truck set up for vans, but you added a rack...

 

If the kingpin is centered over the drives, the change in steer weight should only be scale variation, not 1000's of pounds. It is it centered on the front drive?