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<p>[QUOTE="skallagrime, post: 12133576, member: 84021"]When you scale, was that a cat scale or shipper scale? Also if not a full platform scale it needs to be perfectly flat</p><p><br /></p><p>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)</p><p><br /></p><p>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</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>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[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="skallagrime, post: 12133576, member: 84021"]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[/QUOTE]
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