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Couple questions.

CM1995

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I see all those trucks for sale with 2,3 and 4 lift axles. We don't have any of those here. Everybody just runs tandems with 1 lift axle. With a permit they are legal with 22, 21 ton depending on wheelbase and empty weight. What do they allow in your state ?

Here in AL on state and secondary roads a tri-axle dump can legally carry 25 tons depending on truck weight with no permit required. Tandems are rare as everyone wants to hire out tri's for obvious reasons.

This truck here can legally scale 25 tons everywhere in AL except the Interstate hwys.

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Don.S

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But why do you guys do the straight truck with lots of extra axles. Around here i can put 55 000lbs in a short tractor with a short 2 axle trailer. It drives far better then any straight truck and i can put it anywhere i need. Only thing it cant do as well is off road.
 

AzIron

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Most times it comes to brige law you can run short end dumps here with 2 pushers to get 80 thousand plus a framed short end dump weighs more than a super 18
 

dbloomin

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Here in AL on state and secondary roads a tri-axle dump can legally carry 25 tons depending on truck weight with no permit required. Tandems are rare as everyone wants to hire out tri's for obvious reasons.

This truck here can legally scale 25 tons everywhere in AL except the Interstate hwys.

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That's what everything around here looks like. Last year they made non steerable axles illegal so a lot of guys just took them off and didn't bother replacing them with steerable ones. A setup like that is good with 21.5 - 22 ton depending on empty weight . 90 percent of the time you end up dumping off road. No place for a trailer.
 

Tyler d4c

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In pa your allowed 73280 on a tri axle dump truck how they ever came up with that number I have no idea. Should be 80000 IMHO
 
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