I parked my loaded rig (40-22, 7 axles) across from one of the wrecking yards around Yakima area and a couple CA fly-by-nighters trying to scam people on asphalt driveways pulled up. They had to come over and ask about my rig and a 53' 8 axle rig that drove by about that time. They had never seen anything like that and had no idea we could haul that much. I told them they should see what gets hauled in MT and pulled/hauled in UT and some other places.

 

I use to work for construction truck and trailer out of salt lake pulling 5 and 9 axle for them I miss working for them but don't miss being away from home

 

back to the original question in the post- most port of entry scales won't give you the weight tickets you need to file to get paid. you'll need to go to a truckstop to get the weights and scale tickets
2nd, you can actually go up to 36,000 gross, 26,000 or more truck gross weight, OR 10,000 or more towed load, are the points where you begin to need a CDL.
I'd be more worried about tire, axle, and brake capacities being exceeded.

I got into researching this while operating wreckers, our rollbacks were rated at 25, 990 gross, and had air brakes. we thought we had to have CDL's to drive them. We talked to the state patrol commercial vehicle enforcement cops, that was the answer we got.

 

I'm a little confused, maybe you could help me understand a bit better...
You say 36000 gross....as in truck, trailer and cargo? But then you say 10k towed load...the trailer alone is 10k...and I'm planning on putting around another 10k on it....so how does that work...if I'm good on one, but over on the other, which one do I go off of?

 

Yes ur gross weight is the trk trailer and load. If I remember right fit the state of Cali for a straight axel truck thats is a truck w no trailer u are allowed up to 26000 lbs gross with a none commercial licence. Any thing over 26001 lbs on a straight axel trk u have to have a class b licence with endorsements for air brakes if the vehicle has air brakes.

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/comlhdbk/comlhdbk.pdf
Here is a link for ca. Ur state may be different so check ur state laws but on page 3 of this link u will find most of the info

 

Class B&C limited to 36,000 gross and no more than 10,000 gross trailer. I drive school bus have a class B air brake with passenger bus and school bus endorsement. I am willing to bet a full school bus of Varsity football players and all there gear would weigh out well over 36,000, I did not pull in to the scale house to find out but I would guess it was close to 45,000 pounds.

 

Ok, Dennhop thanks for ur service coming from a former sailor, your best bet take empty truck and trailer to a truckstop look for CAT scales theyer certified! Pay at fuel desk. Load the trailer and get loaded weight at the same CAT scale. As far as D.O.T. needs to be concerned your moving personal property under Military Orders cdl null&void. Carry your pcs papers with you, You Will not be going near California your best bet though is avoid Ohio, I would drop to Lexington kentucky drop into knoxville, from there take 77/40 to 240/40 into Nc I imagine ur army so Im thinking Charlotte and south se more. My brother left there 6 months ago.

 

Hey all, sorry for the late reply, as I've completed the move and been settled for a while...just been busy as all get out, and forgot about this thread. I hate leaving open ended threads, so I'll try and give all ya'll some closure on it, !

The move went pretty good...I got both my weights at the CAT scales in Indianapolis, weighing in at 17700 unloaded, and 28648 loaded. Truck pulled fine, no issues there, not that i"m really surprised, since the truck was built to haul about that much weight through the mountains anyway!

The only hairy part of the move was on 40 E, in North Carolina, there's a set of scales around Winston Salem, I think is the city...not real sure on that. I found out the hard way that apparently, anything over 11k, regardless of commercial status or not, is required to roll over the scales. I got lucky, since once I pulled my military id out, the state trooper didn't look any closer...and see that I was only rated for 26001 lbs...

(BTW, I'm a Marine...) Got to Sneads Ferry just fine, towed the empty trailer back, dropped it off with my buddy, picked up the camper, and came back, all in about the space of 2 days. That was a fun drive though....I had pretty clear weather down here the first time, on the way back to Indy with the empty trailer, I hit heavy snow in the mountains of WV, whiteout in Ohio, and moderate snow the rest of the time there. On the way back, I was doing good until I hit the hills in NC, and ran into fog so thick you couldn't see past the hood of the truck..
Other than that, it went smooth. Thanks to everyone for the tips and info though!

 

I do weight scales all the time here where I live they never ask for my license, Ive had a gross weight of 34K and my license is good for 26001, but I can pull I a Rancher bs on them too. And i just noticed this thread is old. Glad you made it safe!