Feed truck weights

Actually, I'd be looking at how much you are legally allowed to carry.

Then I would weigh the truck and trailer, subtract it, and find out the weight per bushel of what you're carrying, then divide the remaining allowable weight by the weight per bushel, and put that many bushels into the truck.

The truck and trailer could physically carry a substantial weight, even more than the road allowance, so you have to see what the legal limits are.

Hope this helps.

 

yeah main thing is know your tractor and trailer weight EMPTY...then go from there, its not a good thing to guess at it

 

A lot of feed and grain elevators have a scale under the loading chute. Most loads are max legal. Some places won't load you over 80,000, some will load you untill the tires pop.

 

The above is 100% true. Most loads will be just under 80,000 lbs.

In Texas you can only hual 80,000 lbs.

 

so if you can find a truck and trailer to your liking it will need to weigh 28,000 empty to haul 26 ton of feed legally.

 

Most 48' grain trailers can hold about 800 bushels of corn legally.

 

Well I know IN and IL have both been cracking down on this lately.. I can recall it happening in both states where police went too the grain companies and checked the records (or grain companies told police for brownie points I don't know) and set up portables along the routs the farmers would come from... I know some where busted way way way over weight...

 

Scaleboys love to do that around harvest time especially, set up the portables about 1/2 mile from the elevator and watch the overweights roll over em. and while they are at it they make sure your not using ruby fuel, and a strict DOT inspection. They love to nail you good if your overweight.

 

No two trucks alike weigh the same. If you're going right up agaisnt the legal limit then you need to weigh your truck empty with a full tank of fuel and with you in it. I'd go to any CAT scales because I think they guarantee their scales.

Watch your axle weight and don't go over 12,000lbs on the steer. If the loads open and it rains you'll be over so watch for that. And ask the guys that are doing it how they know. Be very careful about this thou because they might not care and it will be your ticket.

Years ago down south like florida on the scales we always went through we would make sure we were legal and then drop alot of paper goods like school stuff to the inspectors. It wasn't a bribe because we were legal. Then ever once in awhile we would roll across over and they would flag us through. Not recommended in todays world.