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Truck load planning resources

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Understand axle weight

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Axle weight basics

Build a legal load

Follow a dock workflow in the right order.

Use the loading guide

Diagnose an overweight load

Find the likely cause and corrective move.

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01Routing · RoundupTruck routing services, comparedSix providers that plan around a truck's dimensions and weight — what each is built for, and where each one stops.

02Planning · RoundupAxle weight software, comparedSee where five products and a spreadsheet stop: summing weight, modelling positions or checking every axle group.

03Operations · RoundupDispatch systems for heavy haulCompare what six TMS platforms publish about oversize workflows, permits, escorts and equipment.

04Compliance · RoundupOnboard scale systems, comparedAir-pressure sensing against load cells, and four suppliers who build one or the other.

05Compliance · Field notesNine ways loads go overweightNine failure modes that put a legal-looking load over an axle, each worked through with numbers.

06Compliance · Field notesSeven bridge formula mistakesSkipped subsets, wrong rounding and the tandem cap applied backwards — with the correct arithmetic beside each mistake.

07Routing · Field notesTwelve questions for a routing vendorWhat to ask before you sign, and what a straight answer sounds like when you get one.

08Planning · Field notesTen edge cases tools missSpread axles, fuel burn, milk runs and a kingpin reaction that goes negative.

09Compliance · GuideThe bridge formula, explainedThe Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula worked through all ten subsets on a five-axle combination.

10Planning · GuideAxle weight basicsHow a trailer becomes a beam, how the kingpin hands load to the tractor and which limit binds.

11Operations · GuideHours of service for plannersEleven hours of driving inside a fourteen-hour window that never pauses, and what it does to a delivery promise.