Cutting fuel to save weight on per ton permits

No.

Fuel it right up.

You are only hurting yourself. Fuel = Life, also fuel = a freedom of action when necessary.

Call me expensive, I love having full pairs at 345 gallons capacity. To me that means I can pick a GOOD fuel stop twice anywhere in the USA per week. It also means since we are facing another winter blast this week it's worth several days to endure if necessary that storm condition.

Pretty much the only time I short the tractor fuel is to get past a particularly nazi scales. Then fuel up right away.

 

1,000 lbs of fuel is roughly 1,000 miles

But I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you want to put your registered weight 1,000 lbs less, or are you oversize and want your permit for less weight?

 

What’s a per ton permit?

If you’re paid by weight it makes sense to cut fuel. My old boss used to spec trucks with a single 120gal tank when the loads paid by the board foot. I’ll run around between half and quarter tank a lot with my truck now if it means loading 26 ton instead of 25 ton.

 

If this is about OW permits, then I'd have to say it's not worth it. Those permits aren't super expensive and don't go up by much if at all with higher weights. 1000 lbs is nothing.

 

No just fill it up, run it. Permits are not expensive when you are talking tonnage.

 

Bypassing cheaper fuel to save weight probably costs you way more than the permit for a extra 1000 lbs would