Florida Axle/weight Limits
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Just pulled a 44000 lb load out of Florida this week I was 12650 33400 and 33100 in the 8 hole. If your below my weights you'll be fine. Even though I was a little heavy on the steers I knew my fuel would burn off most of the weight before I hit the scales. In fact I was pulled through 2 scales
Florida is a bit of a special case. If you look it up in the atlas, they allow up to 44000 on tandem axles. They really aren't worried about axle weights, but more total weight and distance from kingpin to center of tandem axles (41' max).
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
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I'm headed to Florida and was looking up their axle and gross weight limits. I'm confused. Not sure if I'm legal. My gross is 75380 I got tandems set at 6 holes from front so center of rear axle is just to rear of the 40 ft mark. Can someone explain Florida's weight limits and if I'm legal? I was thinking as long as each axle below 34000 and steers below 12350 and not over 80000 you're good for the weights.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".