driving with 48ft reefer?

This week is a prime example of that, on the opposite end. Product is always double stacked to the doors, with a single stack in the middle....somewhere.

Identical pre-loaded trailers, same company, same product, same weight, Trip #1 nailed at the LA scales for being over 1200 on the tandems, even though I had it stretched out to about 44 feet. They let me slide it. Seven more holes !!!

Next day.... I was able to run at the 41 foot mark I scaled that #### before I got there this time.

I never know who or how they're going to load these things.

 

Like i said, i can tell you never hauled a spread reefer.

Bottem line is you can get more weight in a spread reefer then one with tandems!!!!

 

then why don't you enlighten us dim witted, lowely freight haulers how you can get more weight of product into a spread axle trailer then a tandem axle trailer given both trailers have equal empty weight, you don't go over 80k gross and do it legally?

 

---sits quietly, watching this soap opera unfold.

Will Ted leave Julie for Martha

Will Martha tell Ted, she's a transexual.

Will Julie finally tell Fred, she's his long lost sister and a closet necrophiliac.

Stay Tuned for more ..... Tales From the Dirty Side.

 

What's the deal hear,....Did KH's sister find this site and start trying to rile yous up???,............lmao.....

 

ok i'll do it right now! Do you know what this means 12k + 34k + 40k? You should already know this but in a 10 foot spread each axle can take 10 tons per axle as far as i remember. So that equals 40k. If you load if heavier toward the rear of the trailer you take off some weight off of the drivers axles. Because your allowed to be 86k gross with a spread you can overload the trailer a little bit. So to make it simple for you, lets say the truck and trailer (empty) weight 34k you still reach gross as long as it is loaded heavier toward the end. It's crazy to even think of tandems and 80k gross. Lol!!!!

 

Where can you gross 86k at with a divisable load?

 

My bad about that, that was a mistake when i was typing.

 

there are actually a few states that do allow more than 80k if you are plated for it. A good example of how this can be to ones advantage; I have a buddy that used to pull B-trains, but ended up going back to pulling a normal 48' flat. however, he kept his truck plated for 150K in MI(incase he ever came across a load for his trains)
This spring he was redlighted at coop near Detroit, for being overweight.(84K) After showing his registration, the officer was forced to let him go, being that he was under on all his axle weights, and actually plated for more than 80K

 

I haven't pulled OD/Permit loads in many years so I'm out of the current loop on regulations.
The last ones I carried in Texas allowed for 84K/91K but travel was limited to secondary highways(no Interstate).
The other loads were properly permitted when exceeding 84K/91K GVW.