Posted by Lyndon - AB on November 01, 2017 at 10:42:51 from (72.172.118.156):
In Reply to: A little heavy posted by stonerock on October 31, 2017 at 05:22:35:
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You pretty much pinned the dilemma down perfectly Bret. I hail from Alberta, and have hauled grain all over Alberta and Saskatchewan with a tandem truck pulling Super B trailers. Gross weight allowed is usually just a sliver below 140k lbs. However, like you mentioned, loads that size can brutally tear up a road. In Saskatchewan in particular, there are a couple different weight classifications for roads, and depending on the time of year and if the frost is in the ground or coming out, the allowable gross changes. I've ended up on the wrong roads with the wrong weight before, and seen first hand the kind of carnage that too much weight can do. Even the main transportation corridors see the effect of Super B's running on them all the time. There's several main highways with wheel tracks in the righthand lane from heavy truck traffic. I don't know the real cost of maintaining infrastructure to the point of being able to run Super B's, but I know it's not cheap.
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