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Yep. I didn't have to deal with this Monday's issues. Last week Monday hurt me. I still got 4K last week. 5 was easy this week and I've booked over 5 for the holiday.

Get that root beer you like and light some fireworks for the kids and clear your head. It will get better.

 

That 4-5k net a week is usually just during the nice months though, right?

I net about 3k +/- $500 a week where I'm at now, but it is consistent year round.

 

What you want is a pusher lift axle. A tag lift will take too much weight off the steer and leave a lot of frame hanging behind the 5th wheel when raised.

You need at least a 20k rating with the controls. Some states want the controls outside the cab, some don't care, and a couple states do not recognize a lift axle as far as their weight carrying capacity.

 

When i said net i was talking about a true net. After all expenses. Very few weeks are that good but this week should have been a minimum of that good, for reasons i serrated in that post. if anything that was an extremely conservative amount, it should have been like shooting fish in a barrel. 2500 to the truck on 250 mile runs kind of good.

 

Every state recognizes a lift axle for carrying capacity. Assuming of course the axle is down. They obviously aren't going to give you credit for an axle up in the air.

 

Wanted to also add. Consistently netting 3k a week all year long means you have a taxable income of 150k dollars. That would put a guy in the top 1% of the top 1% of all of trucking.

 

That's what was behind my rant! This past trip out was the best netting trip I had going since I leased here, not best gross, but with fuel down, best netting week!

 

Maybe I am understanding this wrong.

2014 Georgia Code
Title 32 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES
Chapter 6 - REGULATION OF MAINTENANCE AND USE OF PUBLIC ROADS GENERALLY
Article 2 - DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT OF VEHICLES AND LOADS
§ 32-6-26 - Weight of vehicle and load
Universal Citation: GA Code § 32-6-26 (2014)
(a) As used in this Code section, the term:

(1) "Federal bridge formula" means:

Display Image Where W = the overall gross weight on any group of two or more consecutive axles to the nearest 500 pounds, L = the distance in feet between the extreme of any group of two or more consecutive axles, and N = the number of axles in the group under consideration.

(2) "Lift axle" means any axle on any vehicle manufactured after July 1, 1978, which axle may be raised or lowered with respect to the horizontal plane of the vehicle.

(3) "Single axle" means all the wheels whose centers may be included between two parallel transverse vertical planes 40 inches apart.

(4) "State bridge formula" means:

Display Image Where W = the maximum allowable gross weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles to the nearest 500 pounds, L = the distance in feet between the first and last axles of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, and N = the number of axles on the vehicle or combination of vehicles.

(5) "Tandem axle" means two or more consecutive axles, excluding the steering axle, which extend across the full width of the vehicle and whose centers may be included between parallel vertical planes spaced more than 40 inches apart but not more than 216 inches apart.

(b) Except when authorized by a permit issued pursuant to Code Section 32-6-28 and except as otherwise provided in this Code section:

(1) No vehicle equipped with high pressure pneumatic, solid rubber, or cushion tires and operated upon any public road of this state shall carry a load on any wheel which exceeds 8,000 pounds by more than 13 percent or a load on any single axle which exceeds 16,000 pounds by more than 13 percent; and

(2) No vehicle equipped with low pressure pneumatic tires and operated upon any public road of this state shall carry a load on any wheel which exceeds 9,000 pounds by more than 13 percent or a load on any single axle which exceeds 18,000 pounds by more than 13 percent.

(c) (1) (A) On all highways within this state which are not interstate highways, the maximum total gross weight authorized for any vehicle and load shall not exceed 80,000 pounds; the maximum load authorized on any single axle shall be as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section; the maximum load on any tandem axle shall be 40,680 pounds; and subject to subparagraph (B) and subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, the maximum total gross weight authorized for any vehicle and load shall be the maximum load authorized on any single axle multiplied by the number of axles with which the vehicle is equipped.

(B) For vehicles and loads with an actual total gross weight between 73,280 pounds and 80,000 pounds, the maximum total gross weight authorized for the vehicle and load shall be determined by applying the state bridge formula.

(C) For any vehicle equipped with four axles, the maximum total gross weight authorized for the vehicle and load shall be 70,000 pounds.

(2) Reserved.

(3) No lift axle may be used in computing the maximum total gross weight authorized for any vehicle or load.

 

Stranger, my son has 3 dump trucks, they are tandems be cause here in Georgia, they don't recognise the lift axles . If you have one they won't figure it in like the reg states. No you are understanding it correctly. And he can't take benefit of the extra axle you see on the front discharge mixer trucks.

 

That's what I was saying about lift axles in different states. I drive a quad axle dump with 2 steerable lift axles, but here in NC they are calculated into the bridge formula.