Where do I find weight restrictions on roads

Buy a Motor Carrier Atlas and look up the roads. It's far cheaper than the overweight ticket. If you're too cheap, stop and look at a Motor Carrier Atlas for your few roads.

 

you can call the county highway department if they don't have anything on the Internet and hopefully they would know about the Township roads also

 

State website since many have spring weight restrictions.
Then county if your on county or farm roads.

 

or just ask or call the farmer

 

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Yea, that's the best way to get legal weights....

 

Motor Carrier atlases are a fantastic source of information. However they have one very important limitation. Once you get off the national network and onto secondary roads most don't have this information. In fact there are lots of low bridges and weight restricted bridges that are not pointed out. I swear by these atlases however I have been confronted by problems I never knew was there once I got off the main road. @ad356 I HIGHLY recommend you STAY on the roads you know are legal for you to be on. You may or may not find weight restrictions online, however I am sure if you took a few minutes to look at these city/county websites you might find a phone number OR you might get a map listing these roads and their limits.

 

Weight restrictions on bridges are not mark for their full capacity. They're marked at a much lower weight than they can hold. But the problem is if they have been neglected, as most are, and you go across and cause any damage guess who pays for it?

 

my height restrictions are not nearly as stringent as someone pulling a van trailer, when i was in training i asked my boss what the height was on the rig i was driving, he said somewhere around 12 feet; i would use 12'6" as a safe number, i do however know that i am quite a bit under the 13'6" of a van trailer.....unless you are pulling a tanker with a tractor equipped with a air #### that is setup for aerodynamics and pulling a van. we do not have any such tractors in our fleet, but when i worked as a receiver i remember seeing that sometimes.

as far as weight rated roads, i am almost always on secondary roads so i guess a road atlas would be useless..... i guess that's where sygic truck GPS comes in handy, you can get that on android. i let the subscription lapse because it was costing me money and i have a pretty much set route. if my boss started sending me to new places i would re-activate the subscription.

my solution for yesterday, before i drove around the country block to put me in the other direction; i asked the guys at my other farms before i went there. they told me those roads were safe to travel on with the milk truck. the one farm i asked at, they have a dump truck so he would likely know.... they actually have a gorgeous pete 357 tri-axle, one of the nicest dump trucks i have ever seen.

 

Sure most of them know the weight limits, just because they don't obey them don't mean they don't know them. They're usually informed by a badge bearing individual at least once every few years.

 

Sometimes farms are on 10 ton roads. Go figure. I try to avoid those roads If possible, but if a farm is on that road, their milk must be picked up. The road should be posted local pickup and delivery only. Sometimes there is no apparent reason for the restriction, no bridge, like someone complained about trucks or something.

The chance of being bothered by a badge on these back roads is slim, but that doesn't mean I don't try to obey.

The day I started training the boss got pulled over for weight restriction lol.