Truck weigh laws vary from state to state . Way back while many of you were just pups 73280 was the max gross in some states , here in Ohio it was 80000 , Mich. was 13000 per axle up to 13 axles , Va was 76000 Al. was 120000 on state roads , then ya jumped the big creek and inter bridge came into play and in my case with my truck it cut me back to 68and change . Most trucks were legal with around 44000 net . Today trucks are heavier .When the DEREGULATION went into affect it was a nightmare because yes now you could run 80000 on the interstate system BUT once you got off states were still sticking to the old weights and you were now over . Back in the day i pulled a coal bucket and each and every day i was over , we hauled coal out of strip mines right out of the cut . No scales till ya got to the power plants or mills . Some loads were plum ugly depending on what size loader they were loading with . If they were loading with a 4-6 Yd loader then ya could get a nice even load , then ya went some place they were loading with a 992 Cat or a 400 Hough or a big A C and bam one in the nose and one in the back and ya had coal running off all four corners and stacked three feet high above the boards along with a 1/4 trailer full of water because you were in a foot and a half of water loading. and you had close to fifty if not over that tons on. You would drag it up out of the pit and pull over into and area where we would go get up on the load and shovel OFF what was going to fall off and knock the camel humps down and go . You had a rough idea how much you had by what gear you pulled the hills with. Most loads were referred to as BELL ringers and that was anything over 124000 lbs as that was as high the scales at the power plants could weigh and then you had to split weigh . Once you pulled on the scales and the bell or horn went off ment you had to back the trailer off the scales and they would weight the tractor then you pulled the trailer on and only weighed the trailer .
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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