Yall sending it? | TheaterFire

Definitely slide Tandems to put extra weight on drives. If the total weight can be 80,000 it shouldn't be a problem. If you get a ticket. I would definitely have the original driver pay it!

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EducationalWay7036@reddit

Yep your allowed 90 on I 90 and parts of I 80 Texas send it lol I have been in Texas for 4 days before before even seeing a scale lol

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WideAd2738@reddit

I wouldn’t be worried about 180 either especially if you know where the scale is (if you cross one) you’ll probably burn close to that in fuel by the time you get there (about 25 gallons of fuel)

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Fearless-Stonk@reddit

Negative! You're 2000 over on your trailer

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I used to think that was ok until got fined for being 50lbs over on my tandems. Fkn Home Depot load that wasn’t secured inside the trailer apparently slid back after I scaled out and went up a hill. Got pulled in at Cheyenne and was fined for it.

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Exciting-Car-3516@reddit

That’s a diff story. When I did tanker we often ran overweight. Especially if it’s food grade and they overload you they are not going to take anything out. If you get pulled over you will be fined but it’s doesn’t go against your csa or points on your license, it’s just a ticket and my company always paid for it. Customer prefers to pay a fine that lose a $10k load. It also depends how much over. 50lbs is nitpicking, I would have rescaled it argued it. Anyways lost cause. Be safe out there

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Exciting-Car-3516@reddit

That’s solid but gotta slide the tandems to balance it out. No need to worry about that there is some +/- slack it is not 100% accurate.

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CreatedbyKey@reddit

I don’t give DOT any reason to bother me, that’s just me though. It’s all gonna depend on who feels like getting quota.

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25_Unknown_Devices@reddit

With a permit sure.

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Fellthefox@reddit

It's spring, just drop your tire chains off somewhere and come back for them next winter

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ImAboveMost@reddit (OP)

Tandems are all the way forward btw.

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Inside-Finish-2128@reddit

Slide the trailer axles back and the hitch forward. Don’t worry about the 180…you’ll burn off some fuel. Be a hair heavy on the steers and a bit more on the drives so when the fuel burns off you’re good.

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Prior-Ad-7329@reddit

Slide them all the way back (or 8 to 9 holes) and send it.

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PomeloResponsible122@reddit

Slide em back. For some reason every time I haul bananas I have to slide my tandems almost all the way back to get to 34k… as for the 180 over gross I wouldn’t worry about it.

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wesker1213@reddit

I'd take it back. Even if he's at 34k even on the tandems, he'd be a little over 35k on drives. Not sure I'd want to risk it.

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Prior-Ad-7329@reddit

Them darn bananas

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PomeloResponsible122@reddit

Every damn time lol.

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robexib@reddit

Slide them bitches back a few holes and reweigh

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BriskManeuver@reddit

Get that trailer reworked before you regret it

Tandem weights being slightly off are one thing but overall weight isn't

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OffWalrusCargo@reddit

Depends, if he has a apu exemption in a state that accepts them he's fine after adjusting tandems. If he's in California hell no get it reworked.

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BriskManeuver@reddit

Still i wouldn't fuck with it personally

DOT could be having a bad day or doing strict inspections. Not sure what an APU exemption is but I would have turned around hahs

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OffWalrusCargo@reddit

Apu exemption allows up to 500lbs overweight if you have an apu and the state honors it.

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BriskManeuver@reddit

Didn't know that

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Flowing_North@reddit

Slide n ride

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RdAlfkC05@reddit

What brand of trailer? I'd slide back at least 4-6 holes rescale and if it's good send it

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DependentPlace5534@reddit

I keep mine at the 8th hole

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DependentPlace5534@reddit

No 👎👎🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

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TheGamingMann43@reddit

You could slide those tandems back some holes and get the drives to 34k then you should be in decent shape.

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ignoreme010101@reddit

depends on #1 Can you slide tandems to correct axle overweight? And #2, total weight, can you burn enough fuel weight b4 a weigh station?

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Hypnowolfproductions@reddit

It's his trailer that's at 36,600 so if he can't slide them he's out of luck.

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ignoreme010101@reddit

yeah hopefully those tandems are slammed front ward all the way cuz he's gotta slide back for 2600lbs before the >80k problem lol

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xmby_@reddit

20 gallons of fuel at 9 mpg is 180 miles. You got that far to the next weigh station?

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Used-Chemistry1685@reddit

9 a gallon? I’m lucky if I do 5.5 😂

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Old-Wolf-1024@reddit

My running avg for the last 6 months has been 4.4 🫤

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TastyOpossum09@reddit

When my unit got our new M915 A5’s we were thrilled to be getting 2. Our old A1’s got less than 1

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Used-Chemistry1685@reddit

I’m rolling at 150-160 pounds all day. How much weight were yall moving?

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nanneryeeter@reddit

We run heavy haul tanker. 5.5 whether it's an underpowered pos or a proper CAT engine.

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yes-disappointment@reddit

some volvo and cascadia running heavy aero and not heavy loads get that. I seen 10.5mpg.

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Helpful_Finger_4854@reddit

Bro was running it at 45 mph probably

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2handbus@reddit

Georgia to Virginia 78,000 8.3 @ 66mph. 2021 automatic Cascadia. It’s all about how they are configured. I bet Prime has the best. 2015 had a manual Peterbilt averaged 9 @ 68mph at Prime.

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Tdub8989@reddit

Literally, 65k gross currently coming from Grand Rapids to New Albany, MS averaging 10.8

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HeavyHaulSabre@reddit

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, 9mpg really? I was thrilled to get 6.5 once.

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vadroko@reddit

You ain't getting 9mpg with that much weight unless it's all downhill

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xmby_@reddit

Nope. Hence 180 being a safe estimate.

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StandForAChange@reddit

Never mind the 36k on the rears

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GlomBastic@reddit

Maybe that's where they tanks are?

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DependentPlace5534@reddit

No no no 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

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TheGamingMann43@reddit

I thought about burning the fuel off too but the trailer axles are over if it's a standard tandem setup. Burning fuel will put you under gross but the trailer will still be too heavy.

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santanzchild@reddit

Nope I don't like working for free and that ticjet is likely to he more than mosy loads are paying.

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2handbus@reddit

Illinois $560 for 2000 over on trailer last month.

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Herotrucker@reddit

Marion, Illinois.57 NB got $3100 for 10,000 over on the drive. Load got shifted lol.

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ShortCurlies@reddit

I don't know how they do it now, I think its an automatic ticket AND you have to fix the load but back in the day they'd send you around back to adjust you axles and fifth wheel and let you go over the scale as many times as needed until it was fixed. I had a load of Hi-C fruit punch loaded maxed out and was over by 900lbs on my trailer axle after shifting everything around. I ended up inside the trailer cussing my head off and slinging cases of Hi-C fruit punch towards the front of the trailer crouched over under the metal roof on one of the hottest days of the year. Went over and was still over weight. Climbed back in and slung some more cases, I didn't care if it broke or leaked or what I was so pissed off I was trying to damage it. I went over for the fourth time and was still 180lbs over and the scale guard looked at me and saw me soaked head to toe with sweat and laughed and said have a nice trip driver and green lighted me.

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GumbysDonkey@reddit

holy fucking shit. Did the trailer shift on top of the cab?

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Herotrucker@reddit

Lol no idk how the shipper loaded. The skids were too small to strap and heavy too. They put 4 skids on the nose then a big gap then 8 skids in the middle and then a big gap and then 4 at the tail. Since i couldn’t strap because of the skid height i put load bars in the beginning of the middle gap and the end of the gap so that the load in the middle won’t shift but idk somehow the load bars couldn’t handle it of got loose or idk what happened every skid end up being on the nose of the trailer. Didn’t even brake too hard at any point of the trip. Picked up from Laredo,tx.

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santanzchild@reddit

Got one in MO about 10 years ago. 1300lb was $380

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eaglescout225@reddit

Bingo.

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LuRkEr_ReKuL@reddit

Yes but I drag a lowboy so no worries.

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WavyMerica@reddit

Hell nah

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Malfuryon9@reddit

If you're in Texas and you get Scaled go buy a lottery ticket cuz that's how often that s*** happens

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GlomBastic@reddit

Get her to 20mph then slam on the brakes

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PenniesByTheMile@reddit

Only if its all the same shit loaded and not something on crates lol all fun and games till every pallet of 2L ends up as a pile in the nose.

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GlomBastic@reddit

Tractor supply hates this truck.

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PenniesByTheMile@reddit

I’d definitely be marching into the managers office to demand a raise on the spot before I even touch it lol either pay me a wage appropriate for that mess or find someone else.

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Abucfan21@reddit

That's a big NOPE from me.

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JoeAneas02@reddit

Obviously I’ve been over my more and never been caught even going over scales

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Comfortable-Fan8102@reddit

Fuck no

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HollowMonty@reddit

Company can fuck themselves. And I'll drive anything illegally on the road. It's not them gambling their license and livelihood.

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acethedirty1@reddit

Assuming you're not running a spread axle?

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eaglescout225@reddit

Even if you decided that to run it, and did the math for the gross weight vs how much fuel your gonna burn before the next scale house....then you'd have to take at the very least 2600 off the trailer, move that to the drives, then you'd be over weight on the drives by another 1500lbs, soo your gonna have to slide the fifth wheel a few holes and move approx 1500lbs to the steers....whole thing is a headache and not worth it regardless....

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synsolo86@reddit

Send it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1;!111

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mikestockdale@reddit

No! Not sending! 180 over gross not a problem, but the 36 on trailer definitely a problem. Slide them back if you can, or reload. Most scales won't pass 2k over, so 36 will be a ticket. Don't run it!

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AspNSpanner@reddit

This isn’t realy pertinent to the post but I net between 68-86k every day.

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Sir_Uncle_Bill@reddit

Depends on what I'm hauling and where I'm going. If it were one I currently do I would shift it really fast and go ahead and go.

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Confident-Ear-9388@reddit

That depends on what happens to your steer weight if move 8 holes closer to the front to balance your drive and trailer tandems. You definitely can't leave it the way it is now being two thousand pounds over an axel .You can burn off 180 lbs of fuel in about 3 hours ( I think). A gallon of diesel weights 7 lbs

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MostlyUseful@reddit

I would…my trailer has a spread axle

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sultrytrucker@reddit

Definitely slide Tandems to put extra weight on drives. If the total weight can be 80,000 it shouldn't be a problem. If you get a ticket. I would definitely have the original driver pay it!

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LeveledGarbage@reddit

180lbs over gross? Naw. 2600lbs over on an axle, yeah no.

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-Golf-Addict-@reddit

Get out of the truck when you weigh it

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Dindu______Nuffin@reddit

Slide the tandems back and slide the fifth wheel forward and it would be legal, of course I'd send it.

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Squirrel-27@reddit

Get into an accident being overweight and see what the consequences are. That CDL is your livelihood, and makes you money. Don’t think for a second anyone at that company or in any office is going to be behind you to back you up if anything were to go wrong.. Refuse it and if they fire you, sue the sh*t out of them.

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Redmistseeker@reddit

They built a lot of roads that go around scales. Hammer down

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Expensive-Plum-5759@reddit

Time to cut down on the steak and go back to beans...

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Dorito-Bureeto@reddit

Move that bitch up some and then we good

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BigGridzly@reddit

Oh fuck yeah bud. You can lose some of that in fuel, and just show dot a little ankle, you’ll be good.

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AreaLeftBlank@reddit

Send it full speed

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disturbedrailroader@reddit

Yep. But then again, I'm flatbed and allowed 40k on the rear, so... You probably shouldn't take my advice.

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JRock1276@reddit

Back two holes on the trailer and being on your way.

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connorbu19@reddit

I’d figure out how to work the tandems so they are both 34k. That will most likely change your gross by just enough to get under 80k and be legal.

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Green_Student498@reddit

Throw out that lizard and you’ll be good.

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confusedbystupidity@reddit

Was the 5th wheel moved up?

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fartinez@reddit

More like 180 degrees back to the shipper

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Some_Victory_5499@reddit

Send it

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WillBilly_Thehic@reddit

Slide tandems and claim apu/epu weight or run it and night

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jgremlin_@reddit

All depends on who pays the ticket. If the company says send it AND they're willing to put in writing (texts will suffice) that they will pay the ticket if a ticket happens (because it likely will), then send it. But if the company isn't willing to cut that check then tell them you ain't moving until a solution is found.

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okron1k@reddit

i'd run with that gross and burn off the fuel, but i would move my 5th wheel up a notch or two, and trailer axle back a couple holes.

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ReinkDesigns@reddit

Yea, right back to the shipper to get it reworked

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SuperChaos002@reddit

Lose 180 lbs of fat and you're good.

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Shadow9x7Dragon1@reddit

Adjust your tandems if you can to even it out then send it. If you can't, yeah, go have a few pallets taken off

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Own_Recognition_2994@reddit

slide it to the front and ride

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coolborder@reddit

100% I'm sending it... but I also have overweight permits for 100,000lbs.

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Technical-Wasabi9118@reddit

Yall would shit yourself if you saw a scale ticket for a fuel hauler 🤣

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Grimol1@reddit

If you get 7 mpg, you’ll burn off 180 pounds in 210 miles, a little over 3 hours highway time. But I’m not a trucker so I don’t know the risks.

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conchoandlefty@reddit

Laughes In 105,000. 😂😂😂 Easterners, yall are funny

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BRS616@reddit

100% send. You're within the percentage of allowance.

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FreeAndRedeemed@reddit

Bro’s 2600 over on his tandems.

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No_Inflation7432@reddit

Shouldn't this discussion include where your pins are, how much fuel you have, distance to scale, and presence, or lack of apu.

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FirstAmendment68@reddit

Burn off some fuel before the first weigh station

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rigjiggles@reddit

I don’t think fuel will much effect on th rear tandem that’s 2,600 over right?

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firemarshalbill316@reddit

Send it back.

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artoftheflatlands@reddit

That’s 26 gallons of fuel

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AreYouGoingToEatThat@reddit

Id fuck with it because turning around over 180 lbs isn’t worth it, however I’d consider blackening this shipper.

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Azmin-@reddit

If you have a functional apu with the apu certification in case DOT ASK, you can apply 500lbs of that apu to whichever you want. Steers, drives, tandems. Shift your weight and don’t run more fuel than you need to to be really safe. That shit happened to me 3 wks ago was freaking out having to go from PA back to AZ

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Row30@reddit

Just FYI- not all states have an APU allowance

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Azmin-@reddit

Didn’t know that!

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Row30@reddit

There’s a chart midway down this website-

APU allowance

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BeenThruIt@reddit

That load is a mess. Driver who took it is a numbskull. You need 2600 lbs off the trailer axle and nearly a grand onto your drives.

Where'd they run out of hours, right before a scalehouse?

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Green_Lawyer_1049@reddit

2600 over on an axle ...no 180 over on gross ...yes did it today

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HowlingWolven@reddit

Psh just brake hard

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nastyzoot@reddit

Friday afternoon....weekend driving in early spring? I'm rolling the dice. How many DOTs you think play golf?

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TheBOSS_AMA@reddit

I'd send it. I'd send worse if having it reworked would be much of an inconvenience. However, I know my way around damn near every scale within the lanes I run. Also, I run at night while the scales are sleeping. Lastly, I'll blow a scale. My company will pay my tickets, although I've done well to avoid having that happen. It still throws dirt on my license.

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Crushed_95@reddit

If you get caught in Illinois. You will get a ticket and you will be put out-of-service until you get it legal. Sometimes that means having a wrecker company come out and correct your load.

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kit_eubanks@reddit

If you can move at 10 holes and they're not in California send it

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The_Richuation@reddit

Shift the extra weight to the drives. You'll burn it off.

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Jeep2king@reddit

If its adjustable id adjust it.

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Fair_Replacement3907@reddit

If your tandems are all the way forward take it back. That's a simple solution...oh and the only solution. You can't fix it. Or you can run it and pay the ticket.

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BrodieGod@reddit

Nah but they told me if you can adjust it and go over by like 500 or under 1000 pounds they’ll let you slide. But this was Oklahoma

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darvin41387@reddit

With out the driver

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xur_ntte@reddit

Get out the truck bet its legal

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Down2EatPossum@reddit

Do you have an APU?

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EntireRace8780@reddit

2600lbs over on the trailer is a pretty big ticket. Even if you were under gross, you’d get a ticket.

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Creative_Shame3856@reddit

Florida? No prob. Alabama? F'n BIG prob.

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lgmorrow@reddit

2600 over on the trailer...no way.....getit right or take it back....2600 overweight on the trailer, per pound is going to be expensive

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ConsequenceSweaty241@reddit

Nope reloading

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TacomaMan45@reddit

Full send

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FilthyNasty626@reddit

I like the scenic route

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LockportTrans@reddit

No way

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RealSharpNinja@reddit

How much fuel do you have?

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krusteePickleCheeze@reddit

I'd give it a hard brake check and send it

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TillPlayful@reddit

*drives across the scale. Scale house cop: Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne...

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Definitive_confusion@reddit

Remove all the inner wheels on the trailer... Nothing to worry about at all...

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Tasty_Explorer_6910@reddit

Take 1600 off the back

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TellTaleTimeLord@reddit

You'll burn more than that off in fuel

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Nghtyhedocpl@reddit

Just readjust bodies so that extra weight is on drives. 60 gallons overweight will burn off.

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ahatchr1@reddit

Absolutely not😉

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trakr24@reddit

If it was a split axle, absolutely. I’d say that would be pretty balanced. Tandems? Fuck no. But if you can slide, slide them bitches back

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CashWideCock@reddit

Yes, if it’s a spread axle or 3+ axle trailer.

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Idiotwithaphone79@reddit

Hell yeah. If the load pays enough, I'll just stop for fuel more times and keep it at half a tank instead of full. I'd also take it if I knew I could get a good back haul to make up for the time lost at the fuel island.

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D3V1L5_4DV0C4T3@reddit

Just route around weigh stations, it ain't rocket science.

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GlomBastic@reddit

I was overweight at the FL GA line. I just slow to 5mph, pull the horn, then take off before the scale master wakes up.

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Thegdog_@reddit

I did with 84k gvw and 39k on drives 😆

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AroundGoesThe18@reddit

Noooope. That's an instant ticket and white glove inspection at a scale house.

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Wide-Engineering-396@reddit

Most scale masters only weight trucks and check paper work fyi

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jordspence4@reddit

Good to go if it's a spread axle

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Wide-Engineering-396@reddit

All day

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Vino1980@reddit

Sending it back to the shipper yeah.

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DependentPlace5534@reddit

Slide 5 holes back,,, should be good

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Mikey_BC@reddit

10 holes roughly

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Mikey_BC@reddit

If you can slide trailer axles back 10 holes then yeah, run it. You're 2600 pounds over on the trailer.

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Zealousideal-Gas1998@reddit

On & Gone 💯

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derricklofton73@reddit

Nope

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Eimar586@reddit

Get out of the truck when they weigh it

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brettny585@reddit

Depends where and how far, usually no. If tandems are all the way forward and they messed up that bad not a chance.

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Cardinal_350@reddit

Is fucking run it. Move 1000 forward and burn the fuel.off. I pulled over axle for years on tankers and never got bothered once under gross

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freedom_seed5-45x39@reddit

I'm More worried those tandems than the etra 180 on gross. You can burn that pretty quick with that much weight going down the highway. Hopefully this is with your tanks full

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RoadRatzzz@reddit

No.....even if you could slide tandems back you don't have room on drives to take that much

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TruckerBiscuit@reddit

Fuck no. Take it back to remove cargo. Loading trailers legally is their fucking job.

APU exemption doesn't apply to tandem axles, and fuck them if they think they can take advantage of my APU to ship another dozen units anyway.

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