Let it ride?

He’s taking about the steer axles. Lots fleet trucks have 12,000lb or 12,500lb rated steer axles.

Just did a search on truck paper for Freightliner Cascadia Evolution sleeper cab trucks and 12 of the 25 trucks shown on the first page were 12,000lb steer axles, 8 have 12,500lb, the other 5 were 13,200lb axles.

 

In that case you drive x amount of miles to burn off x amount of weight, reweigh it, if Swift legal then Tcall it and eat the extra $11 bucks.

This also works when doing a swap load, had one that was 34,600 on the drives, drove out to near empty fuel and reweighed it showing 33,980 and ate the $11 bucks. Swapped load with another driver who wanted to see the Cat scale ticket, sure here you go. He was pissed but nothing he could do because it was legal.

 

Scottie, you put that on another driver knowing it'd be heavy once he hooked to it? Not good man...drivers doing things like that are why this industry is in the toilet. Everyone's out for their self. Very sad...and sadder to hear someone speaking so nonchalantly about it.

 

Are you sure that it is 2 states? Mississippi is 20,000 lbs for single axle, and the DOT brochure for weights lists no such limitation. I was not able to copy it, but Google it. The brochure is the first thing after all the ads.

 

You posted this question in "questions from new driver", not in the "Swift" forum. How are we supposed to know your carrier won't let you run over 12,000 lbs, even though the load is legal?

 

When I get back to my truck later today I will double check my Atlas, but I am almost certain MS was one of the 12K States.

 

Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, and Louisiana all have 12,000lb listed in the Atlas for steer axle limits. Wisconsin has 13,000lb. Those are all for State highways and do not apply on the Interstate highways.

Couldn’t find anywhere that Mississippi had a 12,000 limit at http://mdot.ms.gov/documents/planning/Maps/Truck%20Weight%20Maps/Maximum%20Weight%20Laws/Mississippi%20Maximum%20Weight%20Laws.pdf. It just says a single axle cannot exceed 550lb per inch of tire width and cannot exceed 20,000lb.

The 12,000lb steer axle limit in the atlas for Mississippi may be a misprint as I have seen users on here point out a few misprints in the atlas before.