Ever had somewhere you couldn't get to?

I've had to deliver to jobs like that. I call the job foreman if he knows a way in that's legal. If not, well I play it by feel. Some places I've rolled on into other places I've been adamant and have had them bring a forklift to me to unload enough to be legal. The worse was a farm in eastern Virginia. Had one of those steel frame Canvas roof hanger barns to deliver. The road was so skinny i wouldn't be able to get down and back out. I made them unload it on the main 2 lane. 6 miles away. Probably took them an entire day running that fork lift back and forth.

 

58k roads? Ha!

Try running a 46,000 lb. load of production pipe into the wilds of southwest PA! 10 ton roads and 10 ton bridges, glorified goat paths being refered to as roads, andat the end? 8 miles of single lane (barely!) dirt "lease road" where you pray you don't come across anybody heading the other way!

Texas is easy-peasy compared to PA, my friend.

 

Bridges light rated have a small sign readable if you can get a fire fighter to put down the sub and bend over to read numbers. Axle weights for the fire equiptment, means you can get your bobtail over and cheat the trailer across before the bridge knows what's up. I had to cross a 7 ton bridge made of wood over a 25 foot railraod drop near Boring Maryland for months. (GOogle earth) And it had such a fire truck axle sign.

I disregard load limits UNLESS....

It's a old mountain pass banned to heavy trucks such as Old Fancy Gap and so forth I know these roads and cannot legally take a 40 ton on them anymore. Shucks.

Now you.

You are too heavy. Take some weight off. If you wanna be legal legal legal dance on the cop's face legal take the weight off.

 

Okay, this is the smart sas answer.

When you come to the sign that says you are overweight, knock the sign over. Now you are legal. Drive ahead but go slowly, that will keep the stress down on the bridge. Before you cross make sure some is out of the vehicle and they are recording the whole thing for youtube. Even better with multiple camera angles.


Actually, you are less the 15% over road limit so you will be okay.

 

AMEN! PA is a trip! But my truck loves it!

 

Those 58k farm to markets are all over Texas. Most of them are rated that low because of thin pavement. Never worried much about using them if we didn't have any other choice. But that was back before Texas developed such a hard-assed DOT.

 

Those loads I pump from the dairies sure aren't helping matters much on some of those roads. Especially this pesky one some of the loaders like to sneak across going west from Muleshoe.

 

Yeah Astoria Queens once ...load of store fixtures for a new Petco store , place was surrounded by low bridges and couldn't get within a block of it .
Spent the night under the tri borough bridge and took it to a warehouse in Jersey the next day .

 

Us reefer guys have a few too

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