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

It takes so much effort and anger to respond like this.
I think it would have been easier just to answer helpfully which might help other people in the future.

 

Don't listen to these guys. They're being funny, but you're gonna get a ticket.

A 43k pound load is too heavy for your equipment. ESPECIALLY with that tube CB.

Hope this helps.

(Geez guys. He just came on asking for help.)

 

The MSO [Manufacturers' Statement of Origin] issued by Freightliner and used to obtain a certificate of title from a state lists a GVWR for the potion they produce. Don't know about most states but New Jersey sees that and makes you pay a fee, in addition to the cost of the actual title, to raise it to 80K before you can obtain your IRP registration.

Most shippers and brokers seek to maximize the amount shipped on each load and there is equipment constructed to help.

Way back we transloaded railroad cars of plastic resin into aluminum dry bulk trailers pulled by day cab Macks. Each car held around 189,000# to 194,000# and we needed to empty the car in 4 truckloads of 48,000# or more and at 49,000# we were just over 79,000# on the scale.

You could tell, driving out to the scale, that you went over. The minute you hit the blacktop outside the railyard gate, those old armstrong steering R models were extra difficult to steer and you had to bust butt to get to the scale to see how much you had to blow back into the railcar.

A van trailer will be lighter than that Vacuum dry bulker and that should cover the heavier tractor.
Loaded properly you should be good ar 45K to 48K though a CAT scale will be your best friend until you get acustomed to this.

I remember an ex-flatbed guy's stories of loading (1) 45K coil, going back to the yard, puling it off and going back to the mill for another and headding out with both. Tha's why there are scales...

 

Right, and I do that with full fuel tanks.

 

Lol wow just wow. How about you oh I don't know go get an empty weight and know for sure what it is. Even my truck and trailer empty is only 44k lbs. And my truck is around 5k lbs heavier then a standard tractor as well as carrying around 4k lbs of equipment.

 

And having fun at the same time

 

Probably because there isn't much you can change about a car to change it's weight THAT much. Where there are tons of ways to spec a truck that significantly changes weights.

 

What, are you trying to tell me that a daycab with dual 75 gallon tanks is different than a condo sleeper with dual 150 gallon tanks and a pto?