Light Weights??

[Teal 95 KW]

I'm just curious what some of you guys light weight is. I think it would be interesting to see who's got the lightest and the heaviest empty weight.

Mine's 46,900 lbs. 26,040 of that is the trailer alone. Anyone else?

[Rev.Vassago]

42,300. About 25K of that is trailer.

[mike3fan]

between 32,500-34,700 depending on trailer manufacture.

[allan5oh]

My truck is 21,000 full of fuel and our heavy trailers weigh about 15,000 our light ones around 14,000.

[LOAD IT]

Lightest flatbed set up 28, 000 lbs

[Teal 95 KW]

Dear lord that is light! If I remember correctly my cousin's big w9 and 3 axle rgn has a lightweight of like 70k lbs.

[Rev.Vassago]

Back when I was pulling a hopper bottom, I drove a Volvo (with a sleeper), and the tractor/trailer weight was 26,100.

[rank]

just a hair over 30,000 with a T800 and a combo step deck.

[no_worries]

About 36,000. The Studio sleeper is a hair under 20,000 with two of us and our gear but I've got a heavy reefer.

[Jumbo]

Dear lord that is light! If I remember correctly my cousin's big w9 and 3 axle rgn has a lightweight of like 70k lbs.

Are you sure? That sounds too heavy. The Michigan rigs up here (12 axels) weigh about 65M empty.

[Jumbo]

Mine now is 43,000 empty and full of fuel. But, I did drive a Freightliner with the 3176 Cat, one drive axel and one pusher, and 58" sleeper pulling a 45'x96" aluminum trailer that that full of fuel and stuff weighed in at a svelt 27,800.

[Mack2]

25,550lbs Tri axel Mack dump truck.

28,300 Quad axel Freightliner dump truck.

32,000 Mack tractor with quad axel trailer.

[Jackrabbit379]

Back when I was pulling a hopper bottom, I drove a Volvo (with a sleeper), and the tractor/trailer weight was 26,100.

I was thinking about the empty weight when I used to go on harvest every year, and I was reading over everyone's empty weight, and I thought, "man, that's heavy."

31,600. Tractor and flatbed, full tanks and fully stocked with me in it also.

[Rev.Vassago]

Back when I was pulling a hopper bottom, I drove a Volvo (with a sleeper), and the tractor/trailer weight was 26,100.

I was thinking about the empty weight when I used to go on harvest every year, and I was reading over everyone's empty weight, and I thought, "man, that's heavy."

We only had one other truck in the fleet that was lighter, and that one came in just shy of 26K.

These aren't stripped down trucks, though, and they have full size sleepers. The Volvo I drove had a 70" sleeper on the back.

A lot of it has to do with the trailer length too. Hoppers come in all shapes and sizes. I was pulling a 45'.

[Part Time Dweller]

Dear lord that is light! If I remember correctly my cousin's big w9 and 3 axle rgn has a lightweight of like 70k lbs.

Are you sure? That sounds too heavy. The Michigan rigs up here (12 axels) weigh about 65M empty.

That does sound too heavy, we have a 4 axle KW T800 day cab and with our 60 ton 4 axle rgn the light weight is around 55k.

[Sonny Pruitt]

36,000 full tanks/reefer

[Teal 95 KW]

As stated, that's just the number that pops into my head. It's a 4-axle tractor, and it's got a big steel full length fenders, big steel headache rack, and a few other things on it. It may have been less, who knows....

[tdriver1959]

tractor light weight 21,500

total weight depends on which trailer i use so combined weight is any where from 32000 to 37000

[Jackrabbit379]

Yeah, super hoppers are light, too.