Engineering question...

You should be fine.

Most of the bobtail weight of a tractor is on the steer tires. My 2000 Century weights about 11500 (full fuel) on the steers and 8000 on the drives. That amount of weight is no worse than having two overloaded pickup trucks in the drive, or one U-Haul rental truck packed by your spouse. I bring my truck home about once a month and haven't seen any damage caused by the truck to the drive.

Of course, chicken that I am, when I moved and had a new concrete drive put in, I went with 6 inches of concrete (or i at least paid for it) and a double layer of real rebar.

Ken

 

I agree with Frenzy. I have a 4 inch thick driveway with no rebar. truck is 17.9k.

 

I forgot to mention, I did a brakejob in my driveway. Driveway didnt give way even to the pressure of lifting an axle with a 20 ton bottle jack. No worries about the driveway(unless its 2 inch asphalt)

 

My Pete with all the stuff I carry+Full tanks.....300 Gals weighs in at 13 tons... a ton more than my KW with a dump body....

Concrete can be ordered in 2500 PSI for traffic use...That's Cal-Trans standard for a state highway with a 6" Sub-base and 92% compaction at 12% moisture level in the sub-grade.....IIRC.......
That would hold Ken's truck full of the wet stuff and not crack......

 

Would that U-haul be loaded up while you were out on the road?

 

Yes it would. We were moving house and she got the kids (and the kids friends) to help pack up the truck. Mind you we were only moving about 2 miles. I called to see how things were going, and knew there was going to be a problem when she said it was getting easier to move things into the u-haul because the back end of the truck was lower and the front end higher.

She overloads the closets as well. Once I warned her that she needed to get rid of about a third of her clothes from that closet. She put it off until one night the wooden rod bent far enough to let the rod slip out of the end supports.

She was real happy to see that the Century had a closet, so that I would finally have a closet to myself.

Ken

 

Don't you mean so that SHE could have THE closet TO HERSELF?

 

18,000 lbs is more like it. I'd be more concerned if it was tarmac. When I ran OTR I used to park the tractor in the driveway and when my father had it paved he had it laid extra thick for that purpose. You can still see the depressions in it from the steer tires. Hot day+thin pavement+turn the wheel=torn up driveway.