Michigan trucks

They can haul more weight. With the right combination of axles, a Michigan train can gross 169,000 lbs.

 

Michigan allows trucks up to 164,000lbs. But max per axle weight is lower than the national average so the trucks that run that heavy need lots of axles.

 

In Ontario we run 6 axle trailers and can gross out at almost 140,000lbs... The Ontario trucks hauling to Michigan run with a 7th axle that doesn't go down until they hit Michigan...

It's all about weight distribution on the length of the trailer and the spreads... Like I can gross out a 3 axle dump trailer that is 36ft at over 116,000lbs.. I have a 5 axle walking floor trailer that I can gross out over 140,000lbs..

This is without getting permits to haul heavy

 

Where have you been? I would think being from Colorado you'd see more because out west (NV,UT,OR,WA,MT, and so on) run Over Dimensional Vehicles (ODV) all the time. I drove in NV and you can see my truck is 8 axles. That's 85' long with a 4 axle trailer pulled by a 4 axle truck with one axle being a drop axle. We are allowed up to, IIRC, 110,000lbs on that type of set up. But that was just us. More companies ran semi's with a pup, some ran truck and trailer with a pup, or whatever they could get to haul more gallons of gasoline. Michigan might have been the first state to run over sized trucks and still may have the largest vehicles but some states have allowed bigger trucks so the companies can haul more.

I know back east states want more weight distribution because the bridges are older than out west. When you go to delivering gasoline into some of these towns you can get into trouble real fast if you don't know where you're going. I'll take out west anytime,sorry.

 

I've noticed the same thing.Anywhere close to Canada you'll see that.Canada has alot of those trks/trls.

 

So what kind of net weight are you talking about. 3 axle 40 ton, 5axle 50 ton maybe?