Posted by scotc on January 20, 2013 at 13:53:01 from (75.238.252.251):
In Reply to: Re: Truck Questions posted by JD Seller on January 19, 2013 at 18:56:55:
Around here (Nebraska) the dumps pull a pup. They dump the truck right over the trailer tongue to tailgate the load, or jackknife to dump the entire load in a pile. The truck's hydraulics dump the trailer.
Farther east (Ohio, Pennsylvania) they allow heavier weights on straight trucks. PA allows up to 61,000 on a straight tandem, and 80 or 82,000 on a tri-axle. They only allow 72,600 on state highways with the bridge law and 5 axles.
New York allows you to buy an annual permit to run over federal legal weights.
You see the 5-6-7-axle straight trucks more in Ohio, WV, and Kentucky, especially around the coal mines.
Michigan wrote their largest weight ticket ever about 10 years ago. He was only about a 1/4 million pounds (113,000 KG) over his permits, which were somewhere in the ballpark of 300,000.
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