Weight Of Truck And Trailor

Daniel, a new driver makes 42c per mile in those lightweights.

.42 a mile is pretty darn good for a new driver! Have seen info on some companies that start out at about 1/2 of that.

Starting pay for a Prime company driver in a lightweight is now .43/cpm with a potential of .01-.06/cpm in fuel bonus. They pay a min. Guarantee of $700/ week during the second phase of training.

Beer loads are always difficult to balance because I'm always at maximum capacity.

Too bad ya cant just take it off and bring it by my house

You can exceed the 80k lb gross if you have an exemption for an APU. Your allowed 400lbs over. I just ran from Denver to KC at 80300 and got green light through. Your also only allowed 400 over on the drivers. So with an APU your max wieghts are;

Steers - 12,000 Drives - 34,400 Trailer - 34,000 Gross - 80,400

With out an APU exemption

Steers - 12,000
Drives - 34,000
Trailer - 34,000
Gross - 80,000

My MT weight is around the 35,200 range with half fuel. Our tanks are maxed at 200gal (100 each side) so if fuel is 7.15lbs a gal and i have half already or 100gal, then an extra 100gal to fill would be 715lbs added which would put my total around 35,900 or rounded up 36k MT.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

I weighed a truck (w/DEF tanks) and reefer trailer empty. The fuel tanks were full and the DEF tank was at 7/8ths full. The weight was around 35,000 pounds.

Dave

With the flatbeds that we run say a 53' spread axle, the truck runs 32 to 35k with full tanks. Now these trucks are usually specked heavier for the heavier weights that we haul. But we also carry a lot of straps, chains and binders. It can also change depending on the trailer. Oh and these are daycabs that we run. The trucks with winches also are heavier than say my truck.

My truck with full fuel tanks and a 48' aluminum flatbed trailer is 31k empty.