Overweight

Depending on trk build its not easy at all to move any real amount of weight up on the steers..He only has 240 lbs to put on the trl bogies which will still leave him over gross and over on his drives and a hair over in steers...Hes gettin pulled in if he runs over a scale..

 

He’s not over on his steer axle.

 

Arkansas says it's up to the officer, Mississippi does too. Attitude and stupidity can go a long ways there

 

If he's not up to 13k on the steers.

He's nowhere near a hair over.

Provided the steers are rated for that much. But most of us don't see scales stopping you to check your door label.

 

Yer right..I was thinkin 12600 not 12060,had to go look again....Still,not likely he will get much more moved up on his steers..
He might get his trl bogies close to 34k,drives are still gonna be roughly 500 over and if steers get maxed out he still has no room for fuel,depending where his tanks are on chassie..
Being so close on his axle weight he may get the green light on 90% of the scales but it only takes one officer who had a bad day to give him the come on in for a chat and extra paper work..

 

I never had an issue running around 12600 in those states. Legal on your other axles and under 80k gross they leave you alone. Unless you get mouthy like you said. Lol.

 

He’s over gross no matter what, so that’s the main issue. But like you say, if he’s close on his axles he might make it most of the time.

 

Like I said, my steers are always 13500, and I have never had any problem, even when I had it running the lower 48, I bet if you check most states are 13 000 or over for legal steer weight. I had a dot look at my door weights two weeks ago during an inspection, and ask him why, He told me the weight didn't was not what we were legally allowed.

 

Still chances are his trk will not physically get that much weight off the drives and up on the steers..
Never knew you could have 13500 on yer steers unless registered and a hd front end for it..
On your basic 80,000 lb reg trk,13500 is gonna get you pulled in..

 

zDown south I am like everybody else, 80,000 gross, and have never been pulled in for 13500 at all. I do know they can look at the limits on the tires or measure the width and write you up, but only ever saw Tx do that to one guy, and that was just because they couldn't find anything else to write him up for. lol

 

Just looking at my old atlas, there is only like 4 states that limits a guy to 12,000 on steers, and three of them is ar, la, and ms, which I ran through all of them several times with this truck, the rest unless they physically come out and check your axle and tires, which seems to be somewhat rare, you are good to go.
I know I have had no problem with it.