Thinking about getting a third tractor... Kenworth T800 weight?

you mean close to 19-20,000? or to 23,000?

 

I use my trucks to do many things, but one job is to transport a forklift that weighs about 62,000 lbs. Give or take. I just did some math... With my current freightliner FLD, on five axles, I can legally carry it under a blanket permit, and I would scale under 100,000 lbs and be legal under my IL blanket permit. With a 23,000 lbs truck, say with 16,000 lbs trailer, I would be at around 101,000 lbs and ILLEGAL. I would really love to own a cool Kenworth like this, but it will NOT work well for me unless I move to a 3 axle lowboy.

 

UCI have a quarterly blanket permit and it allows only a hundred thousand pounds on 5 axles. I do not think that Illinois would permit more than that on 5 axles even under a custom permit. So a truck that's much heavier than my current Freightliner FLD would make me overweight with the load that I carry around which is a forklift that weighs about 61,000 pounds.