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Get it weighed with full tanks to see what your actual weight is and then tell us. It sounds like you may need to ditch the truck and get something smaller or tell the company what your limit it and stick to those loads.

 

I think I see the problem.

 

I am in a mid-roof volvo with sleeper(VNL 64T IIRC). I can haul a refr trailer at 45K, even CA legal - if they load it correctly. Two 75 gallon tanks and DEF of some volume, 10 or 15 gallons maybe. Plus a 50 or 75 gallon refr tank!

Mikeeee

 

I surely hope that you are not a O/O.

 

With a 102" sleeper, I'd be surprised if your tractor only weighed 19,500.

As for vans, your basic steel plate van is going to weigh ~14,500. Changing to Aluminum or plastic walls, using composite flooring, minimal crossmembers, plastic doors, 2 lockrods, 19,000lb axles, wide singles, etc will get you down to ~13,000 lb but you'll trade some durability along the way. I haven't seen any 53' 102 110 vans weighing under 13k -- but maybe budbugger vans weigh less?

My Hyundai composite, for example, weighs 14,100 with CARB-compliant side skirts (160 lb). It has steel plate walls sandwiched over a plastic honeycomb (making it a "composite" of two materials), havco fiber-reinforced wood floors (allowing a thinner board for the same floor rating), plastic doors, & only 2 lock rods.

Going from steel duals to aluminum wide singles saves ~750 lb. Going from aluminum duals to aluminum singles saves about 500 lb.