Axle weight tolerance at Utah scales

You can burn off a smidge of fuel and be ok. But you generally can expect most scales with preweight to look at you more carefully any time your gross is over 77K

I try to cat my loads where possible. I don't like to visit mr DOT any more than I must. I aint doing anything wrong mind you that I want to do business with Mr DOT. But it's their house, my money. I like to keep some of that thank you.

 

What was the axle break down and gross?

 

Unless they’re all hard , most scales give 500 as long as you’re not over gross . To compensate for error on their scales

 

Ive rolled across UT scales with drives over by 700... But I was WAY under gross.

 

The POE east of SLC on I-80 is known to read heavy. I've gone across those scales at least a half dozen times shortly after getting a CAT scale and the POE is always at least several hundred pounds heavier.

 

If you’re not stopping on the scales for at least 3 seconds, the numbers are hardly worth noting as “official” and they won’t make any call-ins for weight until they’ve had you back up and stop momentarily to get a true weight. Initial roll-on weight is always 200-400 pounds heavier than actual and they allow for this

 

Utah allows 1%

 

If you’re under gross most states out west will let you slide by a few hundred over on your axles.

 

On average, most states will give 1 to 2 percent over on any single axle set as acceptible as long as your not over gross.