Possible weight increase for car haulers.

Or… hear me out… heavier vehicles should pay more to be transported.

This argument is as dumb as saying more people are buying heavy duty diesel pickups so a car hauler should be able to be longer and haul heavier weight.

If you get increased 10% to 88k lbs you’re just going to get worse fuel mileage, more maintenance and beat on your equipment even more, for an almost guaranteed same pay as your 80k now.

 

The only way they should or could increase the weights for auto haulers is require a 3 axle stinger trailer so the 5 axle trucks would not be overweight. Actually, they should allow all trucks with 3 axle trailers to be 88,000 lbs. I more axle with brakes makes a safer vehicle.

 

Why wouldn’t you be more concerned about your safety, as your braking distance and rollover probability are increased?

Why should the EV world continue to get preferential treatment?

When should the increases in lengths and weights stop?

 

ATG is already running 3 axles trailers in the northwest where they can tag them for a higher gross.

But you're right, 20% greater braking with a 10% weight increase is not a bad thing.

New car freight is already this way, and anyone with a brain has structured they used car rates the same way.

I realize that the load boards often don't reflect this, and it's one of many reasons a business based on someone else's customers isn't necessarily a good idea.

 

I am not going to debate whether or not heavier trucks should be allowed. I am ok doing what I do legally the rest of my years left in trucking. In many states they are already allowed to be heavier with the same amount of axles with a permit. Coal and steel are the first that come to mind in my home state. If the larger/heavier units don’t pay more in correlation to their extra size/weight I won’t haul them.
My best shipper pays very well the bigger they are and I love hauling their biggest vehicles. In fact I have 4 of them on my 7 unit load for tomorrow and the load is legal full of fuel.

 

When you don’t mind paying for the extra space, I don’t mind hauling it.

 

Pretty much like when it went from 73280 to 80k, everyone thought it’d pay more.
It doesn’t.

 

You’ll be hauling 88K for what you make now……..

this is the “New Way”