Overweight Scale Ticket
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Taxman...sorry, it was the way the question was worded. Understand what you were getting at now. My bad.
The issue was way too much weight concentrated on the nose of the trailer. Threw everything off. He does need to move the fifth wheel toward the cab wall, rough guess 3-4 holes if it's all the way to the rear.
He needs to be at or below 12k on the steers. I don't think he had enough available holes to move almost 3000 pounds off the drives.
Oh, I see now (says the blind man). If I'm over 46k, I CAN'T balance the fifth wheel, because if I've got a 12k front axle I'd be putting it over GAWR until I got back to the dock to have them put some weight on the tandems.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Yes, you've got it. There is a sweet spot with fifth wheel settings. Once Isaac finds it, he will never need to move it again. 11,600-11,800 is where I like to be with steer axle weight.
Sorry for initially "getting my back up" with you. Long day...
My steers are 10900 with 1/8 of a tank of fuel. With full fuel I am 12500, my steers axel is a 12350 max so I always have to be careful. The nice part is that when you load a trailer very little weight goes to the steers if any on this truck. I have had shippers load some very interesting configuration. I picked up a load of milk, bills say 18 pallets 44k, trailer is already sealed so I look thought the vent door. Dose not look like 18 pallets only goes about half way down the trailer. Go get my scale ticket and I am 40+ k over on the drives and I forget what on the trailer. Go back to the shipper. Ask for a rework, brake the seal, there were 18 pallets stacked double down the trailer to just past the mid point. Don't know who thought that was a good idea.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
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Asking questions is presumptuous?
The reason for asking: I thought the steers and drives looked out of balance from what I was learning, and I wondered if there was a reason for that that I wasn't aware of.
And either the rig weighed more than I expected it to, or the shipper understated the load weight, and I was curious which it was.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.