345C counterweight removal

Update:
I bought a 345DL VG in North Dakota that has the counterweight removal system. It should arrive here this coming week.
I purchased it delivered to Idaho for sales tax reasons, so have not hauled it myself yet. Without the counterweight and bucket I believe I can handle it on most highways here. I may start looking at trailer options soon to haul it fully dressed.

Thanks for everyone's help!

 

I am not sure on 8 JD. And it depends if the 4 on the trailer is closed or spreader bar, but on 7 I can go 151000 on our black highways (interstates and better US highways), and then it goes down progressively from black to purple, blue, yellow, and orange. It seems like a silly method, but it actually works pretty well as one can look at their annual permit load capacity map and the various highways are shown as whatever color designation they have.
My empty weight on 7 is about 43,000, so theoretically I can almost haul it on the black routes, but it is just a 50 ton lowboy. The most that I have hauled with it is a fully dressed D8T with full U and rippers, or a 330 with thumb.
I suspect that the 345 that we just bought will be 112,000 or so fully dressed. It will be tight hauling it ourselves with the counterweight removed, but I think we can do it on most of our highways.
@truckdad , I have seen a lot of pretty decent Cozad west coast 2+2+1s at a reasonable price, but I have also seen mechanical detach RGNs spit the tractor/jeep right back out when trying to pick the load up on snow/ice, so I will probably hold out for a hydraulic neck.
I don't have any experience on either an east coast booster or west coast, but it seems to me that the west coast is probably heavier but would have less risk of tearing the back end of the trailer or booster up when going through larger dips. Evidently both systems are pretty reliable now though as they are both quite popular depending where you run.