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monster truck
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Here's a question, wouldnt that dozer qualify as a reducible load since the blade and machine are disconected. I have done the same thing with excavator atachments but never with a dozer and always wondered about the legality of it in either situation. 
Contract Logger
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C500's, in Alaska
Power is 3408, Main is an 18 spd, Brownie is a 4spd, Rears are Clark 102,000 lb planetaries. Charge is $ 350.00 per hour, 3 hour minimum. Permits and pilots are extra, but rarely used (sometimes-- for paranoid customers only). No scales up here, so what's the point of a permit? Troopers dont care.
Price is for any trailer- largest is a 120 to Peerless. Not much shine, but routinely brings in $ 3,000.00 a day.
She'll pull anything we hook her too.
Power is 3408, Main is an 18 spd, Brownie is a 4spd, Rears are Clark 102,000 lb planetaries. Charge is $ 350.00 per hour, 3 hour minimum. Permits and pilots are extra, but rarely used (sometimes-- for paranoid customers only). No scales up here, so what's the point of a permit? Troopers dont care.
Price is for any trailer- largest is a 120 to Peerless. Not much shine, but routinely brings in $ 3,000.00 a day.
She'll pull anything we hook her too.
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That is so ugly it's beautiful. Thanks.
prenn1984@gmail
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Contract Logger i dont know about up there but here, say if some idiot ran into to your load and killed themselves and you have no permit, its not gonna be good for you.
And your bringing in 350/hr for a 5 axle? damn i'm moving to Alaska thats the best rate i've ever heard of!
And your bringing in 350/hr for a 5 axle? damn i'm moving to Alaska thats the best rate i've ever heard of!
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prenn1984@gmail
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Here's a question, wouldnt that dozer qualify as a reducible load since the blade and machine are disconected. I have done the same thing with excavator atachments but never with a dozer and always wondered about the legality of it in either situation.
Its legal, for some reason you can get permits for it. but i agree with you... looks like a reducible load to me, but were not complaining.
hvy 1ton
Senior Member
Its legal, for some reason you can get permits for it. but i agree with you... looks like a reducible load to me, but were not complaining.
Contract logger, you have much trouble using ground-bearing goosenecks? Do they even make non-ground-bearing trailers that big?
prenn, I don't have that strong of a grasp on most of these regulations, but i'm sure I've read in atleast a couple places that anything detached from a permit load has to be hauled separately. Is this something that is different in CA or is there something i'm missing?
prenn1984@gmail
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that d10 was hauled from texas to arizona with permits for all 3 states that said the blade was removed and reloaded. totally legal as long as you can make weight.
prenn1984@gmail
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SOCALLOWBOY
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Pier F Berth 206?
prenn1984@gmail
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you got it
Chaz Murray
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Its legal as long as its only serves a single function... lets say you have a excavator with a hammer detached and reloaded with a bucket still attached to the machine that would not be legal...but if you did not have a bucket on the machine or trailer and the hammer was still detached and reloaded it would still be legal.....weird but that's the way it is in Ca. I am not sure if that's the way it works anywhere else.
prenn1984@gmail
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yep your better at explaining it then me Chaz haha. we've gotten permits like that in Ca, Az, Nm, Tx, Nv, and right now were doing it with a d9 in Wa and Or
SOCALLOWBOY
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Renn, Do you have a nine axle up in the Northwest? I have 2 loads up there I need to get down to Riverside.
prenn1984@gmail
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aww man if only I knew that 2 days ago. we got a D9 out of Wa. Thanks anyways!
Contract Logger
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monster truck
Senior Member
I just took a little trip to san diego and back and saw quite a few of your tankers, it seemed like every time I saw a nice lookin tanker goin down the road I would look at the door and sure enough it had your name on it. :drinkup
hvy 1ton
Senior Member
Contract Logger, is it really necessary to have a USDOT number in Alaska? :lmao
monster truck
Senior Member
One more question. Have you ever been hassled about the stacks on your T 800's I had mine the same way on my pete and got pulled in for it at a scale. They told me that stacks couldnt be turned out unless they were at least four feet above the cab, that was the only thing they pulled me in for and they were hell bent on giving me a ticket for it. So while they went in the scale house to write it up I pulled out my tools and pointed them straight back, when the officer came back out and saw it he let me go on my merry way. One mile down the road I pulled over in a wide spot, turned them back out and never had another bit of trouble about them. :beatsme
prenn1984@gmail
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Thanks! We used to have the stacks on most of the tankers turned out but probably like 8 years ago we started getting hassled about it and turned them all back. I heard it was 11' to the bottom of the opening of the stack to be able to turn them out, but who knows what the real law is. We haven't had anything said about the ones on the T-8's and i've never measured them but who knows with as tall as those trucks sit they may be over 11' haha! Also maybe they don't care anymore because those new engines don't smoke:beatsme