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RinconVTR
Explorer
Dec 24, 2013

Payload "capacity/rating" - not even the OEM's agree?

There are two things that bother me most on this site, of which too many jump on the band wagon and become self-proclaimed experts repeating the same thing over and over until it becomes gospel. 1...
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jmtandem
Explorer II
Dec 24, 2013
They THEN have to, if they can, move the load so that it is spread over ALL the axels under the max per the road stress limits. The driver will have 8 hrs if they can do it by hand, simple tools etc.


Sometimes sliding the tandems is all that is needed to reposition the load and get weights within the 12, 34 and 34 maximums. I think drivers know how much each hole on the tandems changes/shifts the weights.

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