Cat 330 on a float..overloaded, but what would it take to be legal?

you can get overweight permits, for non reduceable loads up to the max safe load on the tires,

 

not to be an ###, but are you sure this driver is overweight? and if we are being mr finger wager probably alot more dangerous taking pictures than haulin a bit heavy

 

I take pics all the time, sorry for my tone, all too often people ask a question as a way to point out other peoples mistakes, or wrong doing.
to be serious, if this driver is overweight, the load you describe can't be made legal, permits only cover things that can't be made smaller (the Cat) the mats etc. would have to go separate

 

Disregarding the other stuff, in my state he is not even remotely overloaded on a 3-axle tractor and 3-axle trailer. The truck and trailer will weigh about 42-45,000lbs. depending on how heavy spec the truck itself is, maybe even up to 47,000lbs.

In my area, with an annual permit, you're cleared for 55,000lbs. on a tandem drive-axle grouping (on green roads). On the tridem trailer grouping you're clear for 65,000lbs. It's difficult on most trucks to shift a lot of weight on the steer axle, he's probably sitting between 12-14,000 on the steer. That would permit him to an effective 134,000lbs. on six-axles. A 330 is 78,000lbs, with a 45,000lb. empty weight that puts him at 123,000lbs.

He might be overloaded in other places, but, out here he would be just fine on his weight so long as the excavator is sitting in the right spot.

I've been heavier than that on six...

 

Back when I was floating equipment (early 2000's), I moved the same load (not including mats, etc) many times, including over scales, and never once was overweight. I also had the same set-up, tandem 9900 and tri-axle float.

 

I could scale legal in 11 Western States and 4 Eastern with 6 axles and a 330 on the trailer, just not going to be hauling all that extra mats since they only let us haul one piece of over weight on a trailer.

Not sure how legal that load was in Canada