Hauling Over Height Question

OP you can do what ever you feel is best, but you better know your route out of Detroit. When you get to Finely Ohio scale, unless things have changed drastically since I retired, you are all done if you are over height. Can't get legal they will not let unload a unit and leave it there. Your OOS there so get something to eat and get ready for an extended stay behind the scale.

 

Thats when you get a rollback to take some cars to the next exit. No need for an extend stay.

 

Letting air out of the tires is a bad idea, really what happens is that the sidewall now becomes the bottom of the tire, and it wears on the ramp when the tire flexs, so the grips on the ramp wear in the sidewall, sometimes right through. Sidewalls are sometimes 2 ply while the the tread is 6 or 8 ply.

 

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I wasn't saying to let all the air out, just enough so it drops a couple inches. With letting enough pressure from the tire to drop the 2 inches needed you wouldn't even know by looking at the tire that it is deflated a little. I will say I never did this usiing wheel straps so I don't know how this would affect that process.

 

Good advice

 

And...
If you are hauling New Vehicles, letting air out of the tire is a major No No.
Let the manufacturers people see that and it could lose the account for your employer.

The best thing is to leave the yard legal height, whatever that height may be in the area you are travelling.

 

Well said Slant 6. I know your weather is better than it is in Mich. good for you bad for me. I just got back from the Artic Circle so good weather is a relative expression. Just so you know 12 GA = former semi retired semi driver, that should ring a bell.

 

Actually New York is NOT a 14 ft legal state its 13'6" just new york state does not mark the bridges till 14' or below

 

I feel pretty good running east if my load is 13'8 at a high point. It happens from time to time and its my job to suck it up and do my job. Anything higher then that in the north east you gotta be real real careful . Now out west and in the midwest you can get away with more, but thats not on the east coast... 14 plus is a pretty bad idea in the north east.