Discussion about weight and # of miles driven in a year

Funny thing is that I know alot of this information.

In my rookie year, they gave me a load of unknown weight and sent me to a scale that was closed. The shipper left while I was headed to weigh. 5:00 in Philadelphia with unknown weight and truck acting heavy. Later found I was weighing 84,000 lbs. So, yes, I do know about the real world.

My comments as stated before are dealing with the original poster and what he did, not common practice with a different state and coal trucks which I have read about.

You can continue to twist, but I am not concerned or worried about heavy loaded trucks.

If you think what he did was safe, then we will never agree.

 

OH NO!!! 84,000!!! You could have killed someone, you should be in jail!

I have a piece of paper that says 88k net is legal, same truck, trailer, tires, brakes, axles ect. Throw the paper away and suddenly it's deadly again right? Or maybe some of us can handle it and obviously some of us can't.

 

Might be a matter of opinion. But I have seen trucks that are weighing well over 150,000. They are not grain trucks from farmers and such. Never worried about them.

As far as killing someone, anything is possible. Never said what I did with the load, now did I?

 

So it's what the truck is hauling that scares you? Truck "A" pulling a detach with a bulldozer at 100k = not scary. Same truck pulling a hopper full of deadly corn at 100k = scary!

I get it, totally makes sense.

Well I would hope you weighed your massively overloaded 84,000 lb truck and immediately called the DOT and the state patrol and voluntarily went straight to jail.

 

Guess you will have to see some of the grain trucks in Illinois for a more precise opinion.

I was in a truck stop and watched them load one of the big land movers. Fascinating. Then watched it get tied down so to speak. Running next to them does not bother me.

Now, the local coal haulers here that haul from the mine to the power plant. They are not trucks I want to be around at anytime. Poorly maintained and crazy drivers.

 

You should see the ones in KY and WV. They are nuts!

 

Must be like ours and are paid by the load and maybe the ton.

 

Yeah! beginning to wonder if they also get paid by how fast they can turn a round...?

 

Consider the logging industry and their runs in the hills.