How heavy have you towed?

Here is a load of oil I had to deliver 300 miles. This weight was w/o me in it and on a 1/4 tank of fuel.

 

Was that a load of fruit cake or something?

 

26 barrels of oil

 

scaled at 23600 once. scaled the truck(no trailer) at 11600 once too, but I've had the truck heavier than that. I liked the 17000lbs trailer much more than the 5000lbs of dirt in the bed.

 

79,400lbs, not including the pickup.

 

25,050 without me in the truck or anything for camping or a bag for a motel. 1/3 a tank of fuel.

i figure 26,000 once i load all that in. glad i have the exhaust brake thats for sure....
Grant

 

well, I have pulled 110,000 too but that was different. 2 trailers and 34 tires.

 

just over 90,000# and got two tickets to prove it, over axle weight, over gross weight on monument hill here in colorado, in my 2004 freightliner. waytogo

 

Gross weight about 17000lbs truck and trailer (guesstimate) with my current truck. 22000 Gross weight with the 78 chevy CC duelly I had for a few months. 11500 lbs of dirt in a bumper pull, 3500lb (10k gvw) dump trailer and about 7k of truck with tools in the bed. Truck had a built 454. Accellerating was fine, stopping on the other hand...:doah: oh yeah and 5mpg...

 

Over 100K gross by the quarry I was dumping at scale. 80K is the max here.

 

Ever summer I haul round bales of hay and I can put 17 on my trailer. The bales usually weight about #1000 each. My truck and trailer weight about #14500 without me.

I just dug up some weight tickets from the local scrap yard. My total weight was #26060, it was all the iron I could get on there and still make it to the yard without losing any.

 

I try to stay within the manufacturers Combined Gross Weight Rating which is about 21,000 lbs depending on the way you interpet the rating. My combined weight with the fiver is about 20,450 lbs.

I'm sure it will pull what ever is back there. Stopping it, thats another question.

Dave

 

My setup weighs in right around 23K, that's blazer, camper, trailer fuel, water, food, and family.

That's what I tow all the time for the most part, about 3K over GVW.

 

I have a South Carolina Port Authority scale ticket that shows 125,000# gross on a Mack Cruiseliner, 42' flatbed trailer with 2-20' loaded containers.
Did the same thing down in the Savannah port for 110,000# a week later.

The checker in Chasn got a kick out of it and printed 3 tickets, one for the port, one for him, and one for me.

Different story in Savannah, I was promptly told to get the truck off the scale before I broke it. They sent me back to the trans-tainer lift and they placed one of the containers on a chassis then sent me back over the scale. They weighed the other container after that. I wasn't able to get a scale ticket but they said the total came to 110,000. I hauled these down from Charleston without a permit and each container weighed 42,000#.

That was back in 1983 and working for a company hauling containers in 1995 I regularly grossed 90,000#. We ran under a blanket permit for that weight and I crossed dot scale all the time like that. I always got back sided and after about 15 times they started getting the idea that I was permitted and after stopping on the pads got green lighted. We were hauling frozen chickens and turkeys in reefer containers.

Ahh, the good ole days!

Nowadays my gross is 23,000# with my 1 ton dually and 5th wheel camper...no sweat!

Old Trucker

 

I had 9,997# of granite on our F350 flatbed (according to the shipping slip), the trick itself weighed 6,400. I was a lil overweight but only had to go a couple blocks. Other than that I'm small fry.

 

We had an old ford F150 farm truck. 300 straight 6 and a 4 speed 2 wheel drive. It had a big flatbed, 7.5' wide and 9' long. Dad sold 2 ton of hay to a guy 30 miles away and wanted to make it all in one load. Well, 1.5 ton and hay about 5 feet higher than the cab she was on the rubbers. Top speed of 30 mph all the way there.

 

Id say bout 16k max a couple of times.

 

With my 97 F-150 I had to haul a load of wheat in to the elevator and pulled across the scale at 26,000. It was a long slow drive, I wouldn't do it again with that small of a truck.

 

Damn Matt, that's a heavy load

How'd your Cummins pull it?

The heaviest I've been is with my K10 on my flatbed, right about 16k GCVW. Planning on adding a camper here some day.

 

About a week ago I towed 16,400 pounds. I'm guessing I was about 24,000 Gross. A little slower to get going but do-able. Good thing the trailer had brakes on both axles.