Bobtail on a little trailer

Your truck PLUS the trailer may have weighed that much...now subtract the trailer's weight and you'll have what they're hauling. 18-20K at most.

 

I AM talking BOBTAIL- I kid you not. And my employer does dry van only- no reefers. Even then at some shippers, we're required to get a BOBTAIL WEIGHT before we pickup a load, regardless if it's preloaded in another trailer or a live load in the trailer we brought.

 

Your truck simply doesn't weigh that much. I don't know where the confusion is coming from, but they just do not. If that were true, you'd be at 80k gross with only around 33,000 of cargo. Our double-frame triaxle tractors with wet kits and all the other crap for pulling oversize on lowboys don't even get near that heavy.

 

Depends. Some of the shippers we're specifically told not to come in with more than half tanks of fuel- the less the better. Refueling stops are planned usually within 1-200 within a receivers location.

 

Did yours have a DEF tank and/ or additional emissions equipment? Mind you, my Cascadia was built during a "transitional period",when Cascadias started going from smoke stack exhaust to the"tailpipe" version- which is what I had. Then again,all the tractors in my employer's fleet are CA certified so they had to have all that junk on there.

 

@mjd4277 Are you getting your bobtail weights with the trailer still attached to the truck? If so that is NOT a bobtail weight. The bobtail weight is the truck without a trailer.

 

Weed burner exhausts are lighter than stacks.

 

Biggest def tank is 23 gallons for freightliner