Big truck woes

wing_zealot wrote:

mpierce wrote:

wing_zealot wrote:

rhagfo wrote:
Well just because you can move it doesn't it will handle well.
Tail wagging the dog! pulling a TT that is almost twice the length, and twice the weight of the TV is asking for trouble.....

How do you explain 192" WB over the road trucks pulling 53' long, 50-60 ton trailers all day long and not flying off the road?

And did you notice the thread from the guy with the diesel dually? clicky

Because it is made to do it, and a 1500 is not. Also, the normal weight limit is 80,000#. Of that, the tractor weighs about 20,000. Thus, the max the trailer AND the load can be is about 60,000#, which is 30 tons. NOT 50-60 tons! You know not what you talk about.

So, you say it is perfectly OK for a 1500 pickup to pull a huge trailer? You think the GVWR and GCWR mean NOTHING?

Remind me when you are out on the road, so I can get off.

Michigan doubles are allowed 164,000 lbs every day of the week, night and day. Sorry for the confusion. Fact is, they still are not flying off the road at 3 times the weight as you pointed out.

Further, no where in any of this thread has the OP told us what his payload capacity is, his GVWR, his GCVWR or any salient facts. All I was trying to say was twice the weight and twice the length has nothing to do with it. Nothing more, nothing less.

I would hesitate to call out someone as not knowing what they are talking about. Sometimes what someone is saying may not be as clear as they would like it to be. And sometimes the reader maybe misinterprets what is said. Does that make one or the other wrong or is there just a gap in communication? In either event, one should be careful about making incendiary statements like "not knowing what you are talking about". They are really rude and unnecessary. Your apology is accepted.

Time to get your facts straight! Michigan max weight without a special use permit is 80,000#. See the document in the link below, I believe the Federal max is 105,000 GCVW, in Oregon they also allow triples (three trailers), but the max is still 105,000#.

Michigan Max Load document