What exactly is the steer axle weight limit?

Not true. We have certain trucks that have to be right at 13k on the steer in order to gross 101,500 in Oregon because they knock the inner bridge down so much.

 

Words have a very particular meaning and when you get a lawyer involved using them as weapons it becomes literally possible to indict and charge a ham sandwich on the kitchen stove for committing a crime. It is unfortunate that we sometimes need a lawyer to understand.

Generally 12500 at most. If you have the tires rated for that much and a axle that will take it. If you had powerful steer tires you could go to 20K up there. However that's heavy haul country more than anything.

I learned to ignore to a certain degree the steers up front weight wise. The drive axles and trailer axles weight and gross were more important. I'll do what I can for the steers such as being short on fuel a little bit for example if I am coming across a scale that's a nazi.

If I had a spread axle trailer that's 48 foot, it has been my pleasure to put 20K on each of the two axles back there 40K total. It's not necessarily fun to drive that heavy back there but it's really nice not to have to deal with sliding anything except the 5th wheel in really rare situations and even then very little as possible.

 

Words straight from the horses mouth when he charged me $300 for being over bridge.

I had standard tires. Might be different with wides.

My steers were 10,500 with that same weight.

 

So did you get a ticket for steer axle weight or being over your inner bridge? If you’re only 10,500 on your steer you’d hardly be able to gross 100k in OR with a 4 axle truck and quad 53 unless you had a giant 7 axle bridge.

We don’t run wide tires, just regular tall 24’s. I had an extra foot on my inner bridge so I only needed 12k on the steer to go 102k in OR, pretty much the rest of the fleet except one other truck has to carry 13k to bridge out and OR has never been an issue.

 

Ticket was bridge.

Steers weigh 12.4.
Drop the axle and weight dropped to 10.5.

 

Just a question I just bought a 2012 Pete 587 pulling a 53ft reefer and I cannot get my steer axle weight right I have 16 ply tires upfront and if I am empty and full of fuel it is at 11900 to 12200 on the steers if I'm loaded I have to have the load it extremely light on the nose to keep as much weight off as possible but still if if have 29 or 30k on the drives it's up at 12 500 on the steers and if I have 34 on the drives it could be 12750 I was told if I have 16 ply tires up front 13 is legal I haven't been messed with but I don't finish many scales in fact the only time i have I'm this truck was in va and I had on a fema load and got waved thru

 

What do the tires say?

There are three weights that matter, and the legal one is the lesser.
1. State limits, usually 20k.
2. Tire limit. Stamped on the sidewall. 6,250 I belive is a common limit.
3. Axle limit. Stamped (or tag) on axle, and on the door frame. Anywhere from 12k for a fleet speced truck to 20k of a cement truck.

 

My question is, how much weight a steer and drive axle handle, and I'm not talking about the tire. I know I can get better tire that's can handle more weight, but I just would like to know about the axles them self self. Will them get too hot if to much weight its put on...thtas my question? How much weight do you want to put on the axls?

 

Check the truck manufacturers sticker tells you the max weight on steers, must be matched with the tire rating and not excede 20,000 pounds