Weighty Issue

I'll also add that you can be overweight on an axle with a tank one second and not another. If the officer didn't wait for the liquid to settle or for some on reason the scale wasn't level, it could easily cause a violation on an axle.

 

When i was running a tanker and got loaded close to 80,000.... like 79,980#, and i got pulled into a scale, i would always surge the tank. usually the scalemaster wouldn't bother with waiting and just send me on down the road. but I never ran over gross in the tanker. I tried to get them to load me at 78,500# with my fuel tanks filled already. Gave me some room

 

Some companies may lean on you about taking an overweight load. If this is the case just be sure to document on your Qualcomm if you are going to run it. Cover your butt!

 

don't know what episode that was. cuz i didn't see it any overweight tickets.

as for fuel sloshing. your weight is going to be the same no matter. least on my truck where the tanks sit right in the middle of the axles.

now if your pulling a tanker. then it's a whole different game.

i can only pack 77,500 on a tank. that puts my steers at 12,100 and my drives at 34,000 leaving trailer ar 31,400

 

yes, the entries on Qualcomm are admissible evidence in court,(if your fired for refusing) and records are kept 5-7 yrs, I think. so, if they say call me instead, DON'T !
my current company has no sat. , just a cell phone.

 

You could have another spacer added to the bolster plate on that tank and get thirty four on the trailer also, with a possible movement of fifthwheel.
Also they have different height legs for the fifthwheel on the tractor if you wanted to go that route, the extra ton that you can take each load would quickly pay for the adjustment.

 

i'm not gonna worry about it. it's basically fuel going to cali and isn't paying squat now. none of the tanker crap is paying squat anymore.

 

In the industry I'm in guys get nailed all the time for being over. I haul steel on a 6 axle trailer. You can't turn a corner with all 6 axles down. So you lift 2-3 to make your turn. In the lovely state of Michigan they will see you make the turn with only 3 axles down then take you and get you weighed. Now when you get weight with only 3 axles down you are way overweight. With alost full tanks im close to 44 000lbs empty. I put 90 500lbs on my deck on Thursday.

 

most state in the north will give you a leeway if you have run through a snow and ice on the weight but they do not have to. I would say that either the driver weighed his truck then fueled putting him over, the companies scale was not accurate or his load shifted en route, or he was a little over on his drives and thought he would burn enough fuel to be legal before he hit a scale.