What if it Snows?

you order for the weight of each axle and must also order for dimensions- overall length width and height. Plus spacing from center of each axle to center of the next axle. You then request a route from each state - (some states will ask for start and end - then give you their route)

that gets submitted along with non refundable payment - the state will then approve or return the permit.

that is an overview - it is a different process for each state.

each state has individual rules regarding axle weight and spacing along with legal equipment configurations

 

Sorry I missed your question. Everything is pretty much online now. And you have an account with each state. Some people go load and then measure width/hieght/ length and so forth. Then scale depending on how far away one is. Most trucks have air gauges and you can make an educated guess. Then they order. Some preorder the first state with an educated guess. I try to preorder as much as I can. Especially if it’s a state that’s slow to issue. I have done so many of these things I know about where the weight will fall. Also I know what the dimensions will be. I permitted this one for 150,000 because that’s all Georgia will give unless I run the spreader bar. At 1600 pounds over the scale doesn’t even bat an eye.

It also helps to know what you can and can’t fudge in each state. What I will do in GA or SC I may not do in Illinois

 

But how do you know what each axle weighs until you load it? It sounds terribly complicated (for a door slammer).
And then, lets say you're going from Illinois to Georgia and Tennessee says 'oh hell no' (and they keep your money). Then what?

 

In Ga as long as you are under 75’ you just give gross weight and axle count. Once you get over 75’ you have to give individual axle weights. In NC under 132,000 you just give axle count and gross weight. Over 132 is super load and over 150 requires an escort. SC requires axle weight on all permits

 

Well, obviously, it's a lot harder than it looks. My hats off to ya'll.

 

Eh, it’s a job. And anyone can learn to do it. Well…. Most anyone

 

I can’t say on the internet

 

Thats just a little one... I've had 3 or 4 that would crush a car come out of my trees in that last 2 years.

 

Had them thinned and topped this Summer. After this the Winter before.

 

depends on how oversize you are as to whether you can weigh it or not. Almost everything I haul is too big to fit on a cat scale and a lot are too big to get on state scales as well.

mostly you need to order permits before you load - as you need a permit just to leave the customer site.
So you use experience and air scales and voodoo and then pad the axle weights to make sure you don’t t miss.

you need to price the work so that you can absorbs some extra cost in permits - otherwise if you short it and get caught all bets are off and the fines can go to the sky