Weight on steers, 5th wheel adjustment

Nobody has mentioned much about the significance of the impact of the APU on board. You're talking around 400-500lbs of extra weight that will have a significant influence on the weight on steers and drives. The powers that be can't ignore this. You can't have your cake and eat it. We are trying to comply with anti idling laws and doing our bit for climate change so as far as I'm concerned as long as I'm not over gross then that should suffice. Maybe it's time to change/ increase the gross weight limits.
Also bear in mind in some states especially Illinois, you run over their scales, all they care about is the split axle weights. They don't even look at steer weight IMHO.
Whether other states have different criteria, I don't know. I've been as high as 13,400 on my steers but under gross and below 34,000 on drives so it's just one of those things. Hauling chemicals it maybe that I should have raised the fifth wheel a tad higher. But since this thread came into being I may experiment with moving my fifth wheel back to see if that makes a difference.
unfortunately we have different kinds of trailers where the kingpin is in different positions, in addition to the fact that many trailers are different in weight.
It pays to re-evaluate the situation with each load. You just have to be aware of the differences.