overweight on steer

What's the deal with those spacers? I once hauled a load of Miller product (yuck) out of the Milwaukee Brewery and I just now remembered I had to screw around trying to find some little local trucking company first so I could pick up spacers.

(I had totally forgotten about the spacers because the only thing I remembered about that load was being followed by a dark colored van for about 200 miles before I finally decided to whip into a rest area and grab a certain "object" and walk back to the van, which took off like a bat out of hell as soon as the teenage boys inside saw the "object" that I was carrying openly. )

 

From what I gather, the spacers prevent the freight from falling forward as they don't know how to stack pallots properly. They also require you to put load locks on every load you haul from them. Like their beer is worth protecting.

 

I picked up at millercoors outside Cincinatti, and they make you go across the street, bump a muddy cramped dock to load bulkheads, then go back to the plant and get loaded. I could have thrown the bulkheads in by hand in a minute, rather than bumping a crappy dock. Some of the stupid things shippers do. lol

 

you also might want to take a gander at your IRP to see what weight you are registered for in each state.

 

Don't feel bad. Picked up wood blanks to be used a furniture legs at some little mill in New York. Been there a dozen times previously.

This time, though, the load didn't look right...too long in the trailer. Oh well, I said...good to go. Scaled it at what was then Johnny's T/S in NJ (130+ miles from shipper). 82,000 pounds. Swell. I'm going to NC with it. So, I took the back roads. This was back in around '99 when you could go south through VA parallel to 81, before the signs prohibiting such behavior were posted.

I've also picked up a loaded trailer with paper rolls in Philly. Supposed to have 13 rolls...had 14. Which I found out about when I scaled it too far down the road.

And the lovely folks at Watchtower magazine (yup, them folks) loaded me with about 48000 pounds of magazines in Brooklyn, NY one day (bills said 43,500 more or less). Took the back roads for that one, too...wasn't going back into Brooklyn.

 

Just exactly why can't you put 12350 on your steers if the drives are 34000?

Forgetting about the third axle group aren't you?

What's wrong with 12,500...33750...33750? It totals to 80k by the way, and it will be legal!

 

Better re-read the statute...your interprtation is a bit askew!

The key word in this is "MAY"...not "MUST"....this gives the State(s) the option of structuring their highway regs to the individual State limits.
The Manufacturer's rating is a recommended amount, not a mandatory compliance amount. Also, the tire rating will get you into more trouble than the door recommended rating with any coop!