Driving with tandems to the rear

once I'm passed the scale and off the highway and if I'm in big cities especially I'll slide then to where ever im comfortable at. I'm not lazy one and two it's what's safe for the situation Im in. I hate driving with the tandems to the back personally. And I'll be ###### if im going to wait for someone to rework the load. I'll take it how it sits.

 

Depends on where I'm going. There's no one size fits none answer

If it's an issue I'll cross states/scales with length concerns and I have to make more than one or 2 'diversions' or those diversions are more trouble than they're worth it just has to go back and they fix it.

If it's a shorter trip and there are viable low risk options I'll just run with it. A particular shipper/trip Naperville to Menominee comes to mind.

If there's no length concerns and it takes stretching it out to get the weight legal so be it but after I pass the last scale as stated above, I push it back up for manuverability. I won't take it off the highway stretched out. Some places we go are tight enough with them pushed up under the trailer all the way lol

 

My trainer and I once rolled from Laredo to Pennsylvania with them all the way back on a 53. Got to Carlisle and a driver asked us where we came from and couldn't believe we made it without getting stopped.

 

And I thought Greensboro to Connecticut was bad.

I was left a 'present' on the yard from another driver who picked it up in ga and was fine from there to nc.

Why should he care it was 3k over on the tandems at 41' on the rest of the route? He didn't have to deal with it from there.

I was new at the time and not knowing any good ways around at the time I got lucky. I stretched it all the way and got the weight right. Every scale to the final was closed that day. Even as a raw newb I knew it wasn't wise to go up there stretched all the way. It was a long day lol

 

Ours was a load of frozen food from Mexico. They no comprende "Do not load heavy past 48' mark

 

Done it a few times. Only time I ask to rework the load was loads going to cali

 

I typicallly keep mine way back....usually 3-4 holes from the back....rides better that way....course I don't ever blind load anything....everything gets stretched to 12 lines or 24 pallet positions....depends on what your comfy with....course I don't run Cali....

 

Lots of shippers have product that loads high and all the way back. This is sometimes more than 40k. Many of these shippers will take all the product off and tell you to go elsewhere for freight. They simply aren't going to leave off 2 or 4 pallets to make you happy

 

If it's not legal for the route traveled...I tell them to get it right or get it off my trailer!!..Not worth the trouble to go around scales and risk paying my hard earned money out for a ticket.