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I agree on your gross weight comment, but I just don't think it's possible to achieve that weight with a tandem because you just can't get enough weight (18,000) on the front to avoid being over on the rears (32,000). First ticket I got was for being over on the rears, but only got a warning for the gross. The second, I got tickets for the gross and rears, was trying to clean the bin out in 2 loads. Got it in 2 loads but the last load was even bigger than the one I got caught with. Right idea, poor timing.
With the tri-axle, the weight you couldn't get on the front could be on the "added" axle, and wouldn't all be on the "regular" rears.
Cousin brought over his tandems to haul beans, and said we could gross 54,000 pounds. I questioned whether we could legally gross 50,000 pounds because of the axle weights (distribution)
I believe they used to write warning tickets for up to 990 pounds on each axle, so maybe the 54,000 limit keeps you from being fined for being overloaded on the gross weight and only getting warnings for the axle weights.
Edit: After reading Little Duck's post below about the weight range on the different license plates, I'll bet the cousin isn't thinking about the limitations on the axle weights when he told me we could gross 54,000 pounds.
Edited by Ron (Cen. IL.) 1/18/2013 15:01
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