Your opinion: What % of dry van carriers can haul 45,500+ lbs?

I can tell you I don't like going over 44,000 pounds. I've done 45,500 but the drives are often over 34,000 pounds, 12,500 up on the steers too.

 

We haul water out of Maine, contracted up to 50k lb. I have 44,100 currently with a reefer and I'll scale around 75-76. With an APU.

 

cheap and heavy will get you hung up on.


Just sayin'

 

USA hauls a lot of beer and water loads many weighing 45.5 to 46.7. As for a percentage looking at the large number of carriers at these places Id say 30-40%.

 

I get calls from Mercer, Sammons, Prime, England, and Swift on loads I have posted. They may not post their trucks a lot of times but they have people who watch the loads boards and sometimes their drivers watch the load boards and then call their FM to get them to call on a load for them.

 

I could haul 46k with my two 2003 Columbias and 2000 Utility/TK 53' reefers. They were Marten trucks and trailers.

 

I can put 50K on the deck of my 48' curtain van.

I wouldn't own anything that couldn't scale at least 48K.