Questions about heavy steel hauling

Isn't that amazing?

 

I misunderstood. You mean like this.

My best guess is 40,000 for the spread and 20,000 for the other axle.

 

Don't forget to measure your inner bridge. Most here think you can go to 105,500 gross with a quad axle trailer and 4 axle tractor. Overall bridge is fine but when you measure the inner bridge you are cut back to 103,500.

 

@m16ty

 

I know zero about steel hauling. Only coil I've ever hauled was roughly a mile. A local plant had a stamping press go down. They have a competitor about a mile down the road that agreed to run the die in one of their presses so they would meet their order. They had me haul the 80,000lb die and the customer also bought the steel so they had me haul a coil of steel along with the die (on a separate load, of course).

Conventional wisdom would tell me that a overweight coil is a divisible load, you just don't wind more steel on the coil that you can legally haul. Having said that, I do know that some states allow different weights and rules for certain commodities, steel coils included.

As a general rule, on a non-divisible load, you are allowed 23k on a single, 46K on a tandem, and 60k on a tridem in TN. You do not have to have a spread to get those numbers with a permit.

 

A lot of states have coil hauling provisions.

 

I thought Ohio did for steel haulers? Maybe it was quarterly. I know in Ohio you can permit a standard five axle set up for 120K. It's been a few years since I hauled steel full time out of the mills. Ohio and Indiana have very similar weight rules for hauling steel. Best of luck!

 

They do for coils only from approved facilities. But the don't for anything else, you can get an annual for a specific machine over a specific route but not a general annual for anything but width. The annual that @Jumbo is talking about I assume means any equipment over any route, he would have to elaborate further.