Canada Oilfield to Texas or North Dakota...

It's light between 40-45 majority of the time. There's some stuff up near the border that's a lot heavier but they're older wells and it's rarely pulled

 

There's a few restricted loads we run right now that keep us below 80k. Load 130 and get paid for 200. It's about two hours a load. The other stuff is normally 105k but we have 260 barrel trailers but that would put us way over and we would never do that

 

For sure! Plus if TX DOT see those tag axles you can bet they will be getting scaled right and left, LOL!

 

I pulled a triple axle , but never dropped the tag axle on the trailer on a 250 bbl trailer. I never got scaled.

 

Then you my friend have never driven 287 between Childress, TX and Wichita Falls! Didn't matter if you had the tag up or down, guess the DOT figured you had come from an area of heavy hauling and wanted to check you closely. One got a level 2 then 4 days later a level one in the exact spot on that stretch of highway.

I don't think they scale much out your way. Over in the Ozona area north of I-10 we get bothered a lot and down around Cotulla we have been scaled a couple of times in just a normal setup.

 

Those extra axles are weight so you haul less oil. You also have extra tires so more expenses, more drag so more fuel costs. I think we figured out that just the tag axle on our Pete was an extra 1500 pound so that is at least 6B per run you miss out on which adds up over the course of a year.

 

The tractor looks like it might even be a tridrive. Even heavier than just a tag axle. And that much more of a beast to turn.