How are you overweight with PLASTIC pipe?

I'm curious to see how this one turns out lol

 

I'm with you there...


I have hauled some HDPE pipe, 12"x20' where the walls were 2.5" thick. You can be overweight in a hurry.... Even in FL where your good for 44k on trailer axles in tandem configuration... It's possible...

 

May have a lot of air, but that plastic gets heavy quick

 

I used to haul plastic pipe out of a dedicated mfgr in AL. a lot of tall loads 13'5 were under 20,000 a lot were short loads, not much higher than the headboard that weighed, over 80,000 gross. many times, due to being over width or over weight, I would ask loader to take some off. he would always say, well we had other trucks loading earlier, that went with it. I would always say... look you can take a row of pipe off, or take it all off. the y always complied. being this was 2 miles from home, I did not mind if they said no. I would just go home, but they never gave me a problem if I wanted a load to be legal. plastic pipe can be heavy regardless of the looks or height.

 

Don't really know this, but can it be from the type of plastic? Are some plastics more dense than others? I can understand wall thickness. Just wondered. Only plastic pipe I ever haul is that black drainage pipe from ADS, which is pretty light stuff. I would think that blue water pipe would weigh more.

 

Yes, the plastic pipe I was talking about, HDPE (high density poly excursion) is very dense. Any of your drainage pipe, except for RCP (re-enforced concrete pipe) will be light by comparison. Any pipe that will carry anything under pressure and not gravity feed will be heavy. Comparitively speaking of course

 

HDPE pipe can get heavy. It gets even heavier if it's nested (telescoped) down.
Example- 24"-18"-15"-12".... that can get heavy real quick.

 

PVC ain't light by any mean either....

do a google on polymer density and you'll find some interesting reading.

 

did the company go to a scale and get a second opinion?

a legal cat scale ticket is a great conversation starter in court.