Raising GVW on a straight truck in PA

Well I've been looking at rollback trucks, mostly trucks from the mid-90s to the early 2000s and most of them are international 4700 trucks.

I have found quite a few of these trucks that are maybe 21,000 gvw, or 23,000 GVW or something like that.

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me the legal process in Pennsylvania if I were to purchase one of these trucks and upgrade the axles so that it was a 26,000 lb truck.

By the way for any of these trucks I can get a line sheet from international, and it will show the size of the frame, it will show all the options from the truck, but you can see that it's the same frame as the trucks with the 26,000 lb axles.

Actually the two of them that I had pulled, the line sheet reads:: FRAME RESTRICTIONS LIMITED TO 25999#GVWR

To me, that shows it's the same truck if you have the upgraded springs and axles, I see no reason why that can't be changed, but simple things can be complex when you deal with the government

I know it's a form that the inspection mechanic fills out and it has to be a station that does that, but does anyone know where I find a station that does that?

@brian991219

And anyone else that's familiar with this process in Pennsylvania.

 

Thank you.

That's good to know that I can do this if I have the right station and the right documentation.

That makes it a lot easier to buy a truck because there's so many of those rollbacks that for whatever reason they're around 23,000 pounds.