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stonerock · Apr 27, 2019

air bag scales, do you have them on your trucks?. have four W900 KW's 2014-15 trucks, could have been handy at one time but we haul so heavy sometimes you just don't want to know, we pull coal buckets and eby super hoppers.two ethanol plants within fifty miles of me east and west when you cross the scales the ladies will tell you if you are the heavest truck that cross the scale that day or not, I will gross one thirty-fourty at times and not be the heavest truck for the day did you get your air bag scales off the internet?. would have been fun to have

showcrop · Apr 27, 2019

No, I never had them. The guys that hauled my lime in had them on their trucks. They had to run the length of Mass. on the pike so they wanted to be legal yet carry the max load.

JOCCO · Apr 27, 2019

I the past some guys used them hauling wood. They said they got you close and avoided a big overload ticket. Same for hot top and gravel and it helped some on over axel.

Lazy WP · Apr 27, 2019

I just use the air suspension guage and most of the time I can be with in 400 pounds. I don?t run real heavy. Permitted to 90000 in most western states. Sitting in Oregon this weekend hauling potatoes.

504 · Apr 27, 2019

I just use the air ride gauge in the tandem. 75 psi and I know I better check at the scale. But it is
rare for me to be over 45,000 on a 52,000 plate.

showcrop · Apr 27, 2019

My friend "aggravated overweight Robinson" used to run timber from Mass and southern NH up to northern Maine. He used to carry usually a load and a half in order to make the trip worthwhile. He told me that the fines just weren't high enough to make it worth running legal. I hadn't seen him in awhile and stopped by one day when I saw him working on his truck. He told me that he ran into the same enforcement officer one to many times and the guy charged him with AGGRAVATED overweight. The fine was four times the fine that he had been paying. After that when I saw him I called him Aggravated Overweight Robinson, but he quit hauling heavy.

JOCCO · Apr 28, 2019

Aggrevate over weight used to be for way
over the legal limit. Like your friend.
Then they get you fo over axel and a bunch
of other stuff. Shut you down make you
correct it.

caterpillar guy · May 1, 2019

My truck has them along with both trailers. A simple pressure gage in the line to one of the air bags will work very accurately. 60 PSI on the drives and trailer tandem. IF a spread like I had then I could go to about 68 I think it was maybe 70. That was for a legal 80,000 load. Or you could help prevent off on axle loads with them.

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