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S. L. Schrader Co · #1 08-20-2007, 10:27 PM

Talked with an officer from Nevada DOT today with some concerns about weight limits and how shippers overload and what to do. If you carry an empty weight ticket of your vehicle and are found to be overloaded on axles or gross and present a shippers document that clearly shows there is no way you could be over, The shipper has the opportunity to correct the problem at that point by paying all the fines and costs to shift or remove the load at the scale. If they choose not to they can be fined by DOT for false documentation and the load seized. Now a real kicker is since Nevada companies are lobbying that they can't make any money being restricted to the 80,000 gross the State has up for vote a new bill to allow for a new gross weight of 90,000 for Nevada alone. How in the hell is this going to work. We get loaded to 90,000 in Nevada is ok, but what if the load leaves the state. This will be a cluster F___

GMAN · #2 08-20-2007, 11:19 PM

It isn't going to do any good to put 90,000 on the truck if you can't leave the state. I don't recall much being hauled intrastate in Nevada. If the major trucking companies have their way, gross weights will be at or above 90,000 across the country. I think this is coming, but I don't really see it anytime in the near future. If they expect to haul that much weight we will need to add another axle or two.

brian · #3 08-21-2007, 01:15 AM

the only thing they haul intrastate in nevada is old prostitutes from the bunny ranch to street corners in vegas, not a well paying commodity imo :lol:

Scoe · #4 08-21-2007, 01:25 AM

You can haul 105,500lbs. in Nevada right now.

S. L. Schrader Co · #5 08-21-2007, 03:34 AM

Well if it gets to above 80, I won't be hauling much. With the roads in the shape they are in and I do understand only one bridge has fallen in MN in the past month, I am not sure what will these bridges will hold if we do increase the max gvw. I sure don't want to be sitting on the bridge at MO and IL on 55/70 with a string of 90,000# or more loaded trucks. That thing is old and rough now. After the I 35 bridge thing I did notice a lot more people with white hard hats looking bridges over. Makes me wonder. They are the ones that said our infrastructure is at the very best poor. How in the hell can you say it would be ok to up the max load limits if what we have now is questionable or even rated for this. Next thing we will have to have is 5 or more axle sleds like in MI. MI on the other hand from what I have seen on road repairs, puts down some serious concrete and base under it. In IL I have seen concrete that at its best would be 10 inches thick, this won't work. That is why we have to constantly keep refurbishing what we have. I know this will never happen, but it is time our government becomes accountable for what it does with our tax money.

#6 08-21-2007, 12:15 PM

Before they raise the weight limit any more the ATA better known as the American SHIPPERS ASSOCIATION better remember most of the brigdes in this country were designed for 73280 not 80K they throw 97K like they want to on them what happened in Minneapolis will be repeated time and time again.

mike3fan · #7 08-21-2007, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by S. L. Schrader Co

I know this will never happen, but it is time our government becomes accountable for what it does with our tax money.

yep,that will happen..... :?

Dispatch_This · #8 08-21-2007, 05:08 PM

The mining industry has quite a bit of political clout in Nevada. The purpose for raising the weight limits is to lower costs for THEM. It has nothing to do with INTERSTATE transport. The mines require raw materials in bulk for processing ore which is normally shipped on INTRASTATE B-train pnuematic tanks . Most of their final product is then shipped out of state by rail.

yoopr · #9 08-21-2007, 06:14 PM

We're allowed around 165,000 in my state but you have to have the corresponding Axles to do it.
Just don't go into a surrounding state with it

Ian Williams · #10 08-22-2007, 06:07 AM

Every state has its industries with clout that shape regulations. Here in the Silver state its gaming and mining.

My barn has floating overweight permits for triples that allow us to have a set up to 105k.

If we had 3 axle Vans 90k would allow us to pile more product on the trailer from some of our customers that give us heavy freight. But thats just pulling the van back to the barn to break it out and reload it into pups for is destination.

It would also be helpful when pulling a set of doubles in state. With doubles and a single drive axle tractor you can be legal on every axle and 12k over gross; 26k with a twin screw tractor.