Why don't driver's scale their loads?

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  1. Jan 2, 2014 #81
    TwinStickPeterbilt

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    I know I can run 47,200 on a spread axle. I tend not to worry about axle weights and just make sure I know what I'm loading in winter I like to keep all 34 on my drives. But in summer as long as there's 30 up there I'm fine with that
     
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  3. Jan 2, 2014 #82
    rank

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    Can we somehow sticky Emulsified's posts from this thread?
     
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    Lepton1 Thanks this.
  4. Jan 3, 2014 #83
    Psyched

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    When we ask, they say they don't want to go out of the way and do the extra miles. I think it's because we are often 2nd/3rd p/up and they don't realize we will be heavier than earlier pallets.
     
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  5. Jan 3, 2014 #84
    MACK E-6

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    Unfortunately, that doesn't help us folks with spring-ride trucks.

    Gotta first have an air suspensionbefore you can have an air gauge

    Not necessarily. It could also be that a guy knows what his truck weighs empty. If a guy's truck weighs 30k empty, then he may figure he wouldn't need to scale a 40k load. Now if he gets an over-gross ticket with that, than somebody's lying. Either the cops are lying, which I doubt. Or the shipper's lying about what their product weighs, which is more likely.
     
    MACK E-6, Jan 3, 2014
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  7. Jan 3, 2014 #85
    MACK E-6

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    No. He'd have to start his own thread, and then we'd stick that. But he could copy and paste the posts though.

    Hell, anyone could do that.
     
    MACK E-6, Jan 3, 2014
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  8. Jan 3, 2014 #86
    Lepton1

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    Emulsified, if you don't mind, it would be a benefit to all of us if you could begin a thread that could be stickied...
     
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  9. Jan 8, 2014 #87
    Mrh2008

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    Picked up 46.3k yesterday. No scale within 100 miles, so I didn't scale it. MO and IL were ok with it, so it must be legal!

    spread 48'-53' and fixed 5th wheel with a suspension gauge is the way to go!
     
    Mrh2008, Jan 8, 2014
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