jmtandem wrote:
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.
This is assuming that the rig has tandems or solo/tandems that move. If it does not, then you are screwed. Trailers such as low boys do not have axels that move. Or if you have air controlled drop axels, one can change the amount on an axel also.
In the case of say an rv'r....if you were over an axel limit per the wt leo's in a wt shack......You would be moving things around. Like of over a drive axel of a sw pickup, the clothes in typically a front bedroom slide closet, ie very front of the trailer in front of the pin could be moved to the back of the trailer. OR depending upon how much water you have in the tanks, and how it effects the amount on the trailer or truck axels could be dumped. OR, you start leaving things behind!!! as they did back in the wagon trains with oxen power. If the oxen could not pull the trailer up the hill, momma's grand piano got dumped out of the back end!
Marty
