Scalehouse: Axle Weight Calc

You are on the scale with a ticket in your hand and one axle is heavy. Scalehouse tells you which way to slide and how many holes. Type your steer, drives and trailer weights. The answer is on screen before you finish — the direction, the number of holes, and exactly what you will weigh after you pull the pins. IT DOES THE REAL ARITHMETIC Sliding the tandems changes the lever arm between your kingpin and your trailer axles. That means one hole does not always move the same weight: it moves more at a 30-foot setting than at 41, and less the further back you already are. Apps that use a fixed pounds-per-hole get this wrong. Scalehouse asks once how your trailer is built and then works it out properly — including the few hundred pounds that land on your steer axle instead of your drives, which most of them ignore completely. IT TELLS YOU WHEN SLIDING WILL NOT HELP Over 80,000 lb gross, no…