Tractor weight with all your stuff and fuel

Don’t worry about weight any. Fill up and grab an empty ticket. Usually if they want 45,500 they’ll load you to your scale. Full of fuel I’m 36500 (that’s with a 2018 utility van). Issue becomes getting weights to axle out, gotta fight with a shipper to stretch a load out most times. Keep a copy of the weight regulations per state handy. Makes life easier. Take FL for instance, they’ll allow 40k on a tandem long as your not over gross.

 

My Company issued Western Star Glider 4900 60 inch sleeper with a 12.7 Detroit 10 speed loaded with my mountains of personal Krap and full tanks pulling a Walker Tank was right at 30 thousand

We consistently pulled 50 thousand in the tanks

At one point when I thought I was going have to take my past dads full size poodle onboard I had to start weighing up necessities

Ice maker - yes

Extra emergency paper log books. Ok 2 pages

Underwear. 2 pairs.

Socks and boots. Throw those out. Real truckers wear Flip Flops

 

Man what makes those old Pete’s so heavy.

Only soo thick of a frame rail they can have , everything else is the same components everyone else uses but the sleeper.


Being a ex boat builder I gotta believe that Unibilt is layed up like a Brick Krap house

 

Gross wt...80,000 Not so easy if the load is 45,000. Pulling a Reefer!

Take your rig and your trailer...and weight it Empty with Full Fuel Tanks....

Now you know how much you can carry...

Oh, BTW....once loaded, a scale ticket at a TS is a whole lot cheaper than an overweight fine from the DOT looking to lighten up your wallet.

 

Well hand if you feel that way ok, but that wasn't the point. I'll show myself out.

 

In the 7 years I did dryvan I don’t think I’ve ever pulled something in the 45k range. 44,900 max.

 

First, I’m ignorant on dry van specs. Is there much of a weight difference between certain brands and/or how you set them up? Or are they mostly in the same ballpark across the board when it comes to weight? Is it even possible to find a van that is spec’d a certain way that would be 1000 pounds lighter than a different trailer? If that’s a possibility then maybe you could go hunting for a light trailer. But if what I’m thinking isn’t possible or doesn’t make sense then don’t pay any attention to my ramblings. Lol

 

17' Cascadia with 72" condo sleeper. Truck has DD15 running on super singles. Two topped off 100 gallon tanks, apu and me and the wife, truck weighs about 19,700 lbs. We pull reefer and we sometimes are loaded with 45,000 pounds of packaged orange juice. 79,800 pounds gross is heaviest we've ever been. That weight does need to be distributed correctly as those loads usually go to California.
With empty reefer full of fuel, rig weighs just under 35,000 pounds.