how many tones can a tri axle log truck hold?

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That will vary from truck to truck depending on the trucks "empty weight", when I drove for Beckley Magnitite, we had S-2575 trucks with 350-400 cummins, 13spd trans, tandem on hendrickson, with a air up / down axle, we would not come off the hopper / scale until we hit 73,000 lbs gross, but we were mostly running backroads into the mines. I'm thinking you can get 65,000 lbs gross legal on a tri-axle, 34,000lbs on rear tandems, 40,000 lbs gross on the rear of a spread axle trailer, and 45,000 lbs gross on a tri-axle trailer, just going by memory here, so hopefully others will chime in.Jim

We had a Self loader 44,000# rears, a pusher and a 20,000# rated steer axle, we could run 77,000# legal in summer, 87,000# legal in winter (frozen road), truck empty was just under 37,000#.  We would figure in softwood about 10 cds, @ 3,000#/cd =30,0003 of wood give or take, depending on MC of the wood.

I don't know how heavy the truck is or what the road restrictions are, should be around 18 tons

In maine, we are allowed 75900# gross and my truck weighs empty 31000 so that leaves 44900#s or22.45 tons at a legal load.

If you're loading tree-length, you may find the crooked, small-diameter stuff won't weigh up as much as logs. Too much air space.

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Back in the day, i used to gross in almost every load at over 100,000 pounds on a 1985 gmc general tri axle self loader! Thats when a 25000 pound overload might have been a grand! Now it would be 7000 or so! Hauled the biggest load of spruce/fir  into sappi paper in hinkley maine on a self loader, 108000 ppunds gross! Used to haul 8500 feet of logs almost every load! Them was the days! ;D

When I was contracted to Hammermill, I sub-contracted the hauling. Our drivers targeted 22 ton trips. 20 was too light, 24 was a bit risky of a fine. When we went to tractor trailers, 25-27 tons was the range.

The last load of pine pulp I put in scaled at 32 tons on triaxle + pup

Thanks for the help guys!

Sounds like your going to be starving at $25 a ton delivered, the amount you can get on any tri-axle ,depends on the actual size of the body, the straightness of the wood, the ability of the trucker to screw a bunch of ugly wood into a tight mass in the truck body, you will have to cut crooked wood short to pack a truck and get any weight. I just think after you pay the trucker theres nothing left for you. Don

Well the mill only gives 200 per truck load and thier not buying any wood. The wood isn't all that crooked it's actuall straight, just mosy of it is small diam. Plus I'm getting paid on top to clear the land and remove the stumps.

Well that does make a difference, sending it in by weight you probably will do all  Donright,good thing you are not getting it scaled ,small wood just dont add up well.

legally here gross is 73000, and you are allowed 3% if DOT weighs on a portable scale so you have a little wiggle room. Lot of guys do what they can to save weight, like only run one tank, smaller size stakes etc to get a 21-22 pound payload. Not sure I would want your job though. Most guys here have a minimum of 300 bucks a load for hauls under 20 miles, anything over that its a by the loaded mile and 100 bucks or so for time to load and unload at the mill. Even if you are close to this mulch place you are going to eat up 12-15 bucks or more in to trucking. You cant make a living cutting pecker wood by hand for 10 bucks a ton, so that better just be extra on top of the clearing.

Legal weight here is 76,650lbs. Trucking will not be that bad. The home owner and I will split the cost of the trucking. Plus like I said I'm getting paid to cut the wood, remove the stumps and chip the brush so I think I will make a good profit.

I hauled poplar on a tandem permitted to 66,000 lb. and averaged 20 ton per load and stayed within the permitted weight. It was a dump box with log racks. Got $30/ton and hauled one or two loads a day. What was even better the wood was given to us. The property owner wanted it out of there so his maples would grow better. That job kept the bill collectors at bay for a while. lol Perhaps you could get 30 ton on a tri-axle, 25 anyway.

Heres MN weight laws, i could haul about 28 on the semi.http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/about/programs/truckweight/videos/documents/educational_presentation.pdf

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