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So is that a yes to my question?

 

Yep, 31k is very light for a truck and trailer combo, but again in my last job I had an old 379 pete, overszed sleeper and they ran Stoughton roller bed box trailers, with those super heavy frames. I was always juggling my fuel situation.

 

Only rarely have I had to worry about my fuel state causing a weight problem. Its valuable to know how its distributed on any tractor. Prime specifies the tank location so that fuel weight is mostly on the steer axle. Thinking about it, the lightweight trailers are the 100's and 110's only.

Yes, can we pull 80,000 lbs of freight? Not likely - it'd destroy a trailer. We usually can pull our freight and full fuel with all of our tractors.

 

If nashville thought i was talking about 80k in the box, no i know you cannot put 80k in a trailer when the whole truck with load and fuel in both tanks have to be at 80k or less. I use to be a reefer driver and hoping to be one again at prime if they will have me.

 

CWC,

First off I really should not have been answering your question as I'm not a Prime employee and I should have noted you knew what you were talking about, because of that fact that you went into detail about the the bridge laws. Sorry about that. Sometimes I need to re-read things before commenting.

 

That's okay nashville everyone has a right to speak on here, i was just letting you know that i knew you cannot put 80k in the trailer. And it is not about bridge laws it is about how much weight you can put in a trailer and truck combo to equal up to the 80k limit. Scale houses(weigh stations) do not want you to exeed that limit.

 

Yep, been there....done that! Whats worse is having to go back to the shipper after you get on the scale at the truck stop and find you can not adjust your weight to meet the bridge laws

 

Nashville i think you might be confused as to what bridge laws mean. Correct me if i am wrong prime drivers. Bridge laws are weight limits on bridges you cannot cross in small towns and maybe some big towns that you drive thru. For instance if you are in a town and u turn on a street that leads to a bridge that your delivery is on and is 20tons limit and you are 40 tons, you can not cross that bridge and if you do and a police sees you, you will get a hefty fine.

 

Thats Bridge Weight Restriction laws, the bridge laws refer the length and indiviual axle weight of commercial vehicles, yes to protect roads and bridges. There are many facets to this law, just open your Rand McNally Atlas to the first few pages.