Heavy Haul Vs Regular Haul

100000lbs is not heavyhaul. That's every single day in Canada and in all the States that border Canada.

 

In the US, where most are, 100000lbs is not heavy enough to be heavyhaul.

 

He speaks the truth....100k isn't really heavy haul...you can scale that on 5 axles in alot of places.

 

Swift calls their little 6 axle gig in Washington State "heavyhaul." TMC calls their guys that pull RGNs "heavyhaul" and they dont even pull over 80k. If your company is telling you that 80000+ is heavyhaul, they are a joke. That's like someone saying tennis is a contact sport.

The difference between 100k vs 80k is the same as 80k vs 60k. If you are 60k coming out of the mountains on a 6 mile, 6 percent grade, what precautions do you take? You put the transmission in the big hole, set the jake on the highest setting and let the jake control you all the way down. Do you run 80k the same way? Nope, you drop 3 gears or so, where the jake will hold you at 45-55 mph, and you creep it down at that speed. At 100k, you do the same thing, but you choose the gear that will hold 25-35mph, and let the jake scream all the way down and do your best to stay off the brakes.

Heavyhaul is anything deemed by the State or Province as a "Superload" where the superload rules apply. And you dont usually see those rules until you go OVER 160k on a non divisible load. Or over 17ft tall. Or 150ft long. Or 18ft wide. All non divisible.

 

Don’t listen to @TripleSix,

He just hauls multi axle loads and overlength loads for a living.

 

You already asked it man. Now listen to the answers