8 axles... Seriously?!?!

It's been 10 years plus since I pulled one, but 105,500 was the max, 4 axle tractor, 4 axle trailer out west. Usually hauled building material, paper rolls, occasionally upright coils. They have weird bridge laws that limit the weight to the distance of the grouping of axles. A 3 axle trailer could only weigh 42,000. A tandem can obviously weigh 34,000 so logic would say another axle would bump it to 51,000, but not the case.

 

Lilly Hauls paper mill machine rolls, also temperature sensitive machine parts. The low end of weight for heavy haul is 80k for the load itself.

 

Oregon charges you per mile, for what you are registered to haul, your per mile rate,is per pound registered, doesn't matter if you are empty or loaded. You have to have the legal number of axles to scale what you are hauling, the more axles you have, the more you pay per mile. Fuel is cheap there for a reason.... Sometimes it's not

 

The pacific northwest has been MAXI country for a long, long time. I used to do it a lot, now that I run 5 axle I stay out of the NW as a general rule because of this. Everyone up there wants a maxi. depending on what your axle measurements are...many differen't combinations. Some tri axle trailers can go 42,000, some 43,500. Most 4 axle trailers use three "regular" axles and a "tag" axle....mostly set up for running 50,000#'s. The laws may have changed since I did it, but back then...if you read your permit (extended weight) carefully, you could only be 75 feet from bumper to bumper with a single trailer. In Oregon, you have to be on top of the bridge laws or they will get you! It's really pretty simple if you do it on a regular basis, you know your spreads, your single grouping bridges, your inner bridges and your over all bridges, but for a new driver it would be easy to make a costly mistake or mis-measurement.