Heres a program that I found useful today that legalizes, or at leaste comes very close to legalizing your load, after of course you scale and have to go for a re weigh.

http://www.driversdailylog.com/ddlotheroftware.htm

Enjoy;
TKR

 

I have been a longtime user of DDL and have tried the load part of the program. Its good if you know what each pallet weighs, but knowing what each pallet weighs, do the math in your head. I thought it was a waste of time, and did it better on my own! This is my opinion of coarse!!

 

hehehee , I don't get it, I tell the dock worker how to load my truck, i know the gross from the bills and just estimate where to slide my axle, I go scale and its fine so I drive, what in the hell would I need a program for this.. ??? what a waste of time, just load yer damn truck and roll.... hehehehe... sorry I can't stop laughing.. yer too funny...

 

Uglymutt,
That's what happens when schools don't teach arithmetic amd mathematics only with the use of a calculator. There's at least a generation of people now who have no clue how to estimate or do computations in their head.
I like to calculate in my head my grocery bill, as a clerk scans my purchases, to come with $.50 of the total and having it in my hand to pay. Yeah, I know, I need a life. BOL

 

hehehee , I don't get it, I tell the dock worker how to load my truck, i know the gross from the bills and just estimate where to slide my axle, I go scale and its fine so I drive, what in the hell would I need a program for this.. ??? what a waste of time, just load yer damn truck and roll.... hehehehe... sorry I can't stop laughing.. yer too funny...

 

Take the weight on the trailer tandems and subtract the weight on the drive tandems. Divide that by 500. The answer tells you how many holes to increase the trailer wheelbase. If the answer is a negative number [the drive tandems are heavier than the trailer tandems] slide the trailer tandems to shorten the trailer wheelbase.

 

Since the difference between the trailer and drive tandems is not what the DOT regulates, what you need to do instead is look at how your three axle weights (assuming a standard 53' trailer rig) match up against the legal axle limits of 12K, 34K, 34K. If either of the two 34K ones are exceeded by more than about 200 pounds or so, then you must reduce the load on that axle before attempting to cross any DOT scale. Sliding trailer tandems back is the usual way to reduce the weight on the trailer tandems. The amount you get per hole slid tends to be no more than 400 pounds and it depends on the distance between adjacent holes. The number 500 given above is incorrect unless your gross is about 100K, which most drivers don't haul - if you're hauling that much weight, then your first task is to get a permit!

 

No offense but I haven't even started school yet and I can figure it out in my head.