Single Axle Truck, power only, and axle vs cargo weight

Weight on loadboard is always Weight of the product. So factor in trailer weight

 

Brokers tend to ignorantly and generically list weight as 40,000 lbs - when you call it may be 10-20k or 90k.

 

BOL weight is usually freight only.
BROKERS LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING. What are you going to do if the broker "underestimates" the weight and you already are hooked to it?. Getting some more money for that load may not fix "your problem".

 

Single axle tractors pull for Amazon Relay all the time. I did it for 7 weeks, most of the loads are less than 10k lbs.

My tractor is 15,500 lbs full of fuel and DEF, and I weighed an empty 53' Amazon trailer at roughly 15,000 lbs. My tractor is only registered at 54k lbs so that left me with about 23k lbs payload, plenty for 95% of Amazon loads.

Your tractor is probably registered higher so that would give you a higher payload, but it will be easy to overload your rear axle.

But beware, you can still get heavier loads from Amazon. During the last week of February I was getting a heavy load pretty much every night, lucky for me, they weren't going too far and they didn't put me over any of my axle weights, just gross weight.

My tractor has a 23k lb rear axle capacity and it has a rear suspension pressure gauge so that helped estimate how heavy I was on the rear axle. Most loads bounced around 30 - 40 psi, heavier loads were 50 - 60 psi. 70 psi was getting into the danger zone and 80psi, just say no. I failed to do that on a load coming out of Hazelton PA that weighed way too much and it ended up costing my company $2800 for an overweight ticket. Luckily they like me.

But like other posters said you can't trust the BOL weights. If it feels heavy you better weigh it. I did do 1 live load for them, the BOL said 15k lbs but after they loaded me my suspension guage was reading around 70 psi, so I was thinking no way is that load only 15k. When I looked in the back of the trailer it was only 13 pallets and they loaded it all the way to the front. I went ahead and got it weighed and my rear axle was right at 19,900 lbs, but I was only 46,600 gross, so in this case the Bol was accurate.

Another option is JB Hunt 360. I looked into them in case Amazon took a huge dive. Where I am in the Mid-Atlantic there were plenty of loads listed under 16k lbs and power only. They also let you search by load weight. I didn't get any farther than that with them as my company was pretty happy with Amazon so we stuck with them.

 

Maybe check with a Fed Ex contractor. I see them with single axles a lot

 

Look in to dry bulk haulers in your area. The ones in my area hire owner operators and you pull their double pneumatic tankers.