Drop deck trailer load

Why didn't you scale it at the Loves? It sounds like you had poor tires, and you over loaded them at that. My Fontaine has a turn signal at the mid point of the trailer. With a single piece like you had, I would have centered the piece about a foot back from the turn signal.
I bought a Ryder dry van a few years back that had re-recaps. The first watermelon load I hauled, I ended up replacing them all from FL to Jersey.

 

You blew them tires out cause you had it loaded wrong. With a step you load it heavier to the nose of the trailer, the opposite of loading it like a regular spread.

Weight don't transfer thru the neck like you think it would. At the very least you find the center of the trailer and split the load. Don't always go by where the light is either, sometimes they are placed at center of the bottom deck and not the whole trailer.

 

What size rubber? The 17.5's don't handle the heat like the 22.5's. How fast were you going,speed generates heat. Hot day you have to slow down. Being a 94 model probably means the trailer deflects quite a bit,this puts more wt. on front axle. I'd of put the rear of the machine 6' ahead of the center of the front axle. You were loaded way too far back. Don't trust shippers wt's. A lot of loads pay by weight,some people will flim-flam you in a NY minute. Spend $10 and then you know for sure. Keep tabs on air pressure too. One tire up,one tire down and you are in trouble.

 

I always loaded @the the step and worked back off of the loaded gauges and put the extra pallets or ltls on the nose if I could find them.

 

Can you explain better please?

How is spread "step" any different than a spread standard "flat" as far as weight distribution?

Can you not legally place 40K on the tail like a spread "flat"?

 

As posted above, its a lot harder to get weight on the drives with a step. Usually about 2 ft from the step is a good place to start, then take a look at your suspension gage, You see a lot of owner ops with air gages on the trailer as well

 

I still fail to see the problem.....
Your axles are either legal or they are not.....

 

I know on my company truck I have a load gauge in the cab and one on the trailer and I have been able to get it spot on a few times right at the 79-80K mark. That was loading at a place that puts as much on as we can take so I think I have it figured out atleast for that one trailer.

 

On a 48' step say you have a pipe load that is 40' and nets 45K.....

If you center the load like I do on my flat....That is 20' to the nose and 20' to the tail....You should be roughly 16.5K per axle with a Large Car and a composite trailer...