How am I supposed to be able to drive a 43000 pound load?

GVWR is what your gross weight not your actual weight. It means the combination is good to haul up to your GVWR your actual weight for the tractor is probably around 17 to 18k and your trailer is probably around 13 or 14 k so if the weight of the combination is around 32,000 - 80000= 48,000 you can load on your trailer if you’re registered for 80,000 pounds. These are just rough estimates. Your combination might be different but it sounds like you may need some training on the basics. This is trucking 101.

 

What did the loads weigh?

 

Best thing you can do is fill your truck with fuel and get your empty weight and then you will know exactly what you can load legally. Then you can start worrying about bridge laws and axle weights and then you can come back on here and start searching for legal axle weights. Which at that time people will start arguing about what’s legal and you can learn lot about what people don’t actually know what they don’t know! Have fun and good luck!

 

That right there should tell Ya'll this is a Troll

 

He would have to be in a really really big sleeper!!
I just bought a 120” bunk and fully loaded the truck is around 22600

 

That's because it has 40k rears and a 12.5k front axle. Your door sticker doesn't factor in a trailer