Do you know what the legal weight is on your trucks?
Do you know when the legal weights change?
Do you know your weights change depending on your route?
Each year truck traffic is increasing and the possibility of increased truck weight enforcement is possible. Transportation agencies want to protect their highway investments from the heavier truck traffic.
Who Should Attend?
Trucking entities that want to load to the maximum legal weight possible. Scale operators, truck owners and operators, aggregate haulers, truck manufacturers who configure truck axles and tires, township and county authorities who influence truck route weights, any company representative who influences the purchase or alteration of new trucks, out-of-state companies that need to understand and comply with MN’s legal weight limits and truck driving students.
Topics Covered
- An update of road weight limits and differences between the state and local systems
- Road damage issues: how overweight trucks cost us all
- Overweight truck issues go beyond just gross and axle weights
- Classroom exercises to help you identify concerns in your own trucks
- What's different between axle spacing? Do I have the right tires for the weight?
- Issues to consider when purchasing a new truck, or altering a current truck
- Professional, easy to understand "take home" materials to assist you with your own configurations and options
Please note: This class is basic truck weight education and is not formatted for those companies that haul permitted heavy equipment loads more than 80,000 pounds. We will cover permits for winter load increases and the harvest permits for the sugar beet, carrot, and potato industry.
Course Outcomes
- To empower truckers to haul legal loads through education
- To instruct truckers how to read weight charts and make competent decisions regarding truck loading
- To instruct the advantages and reasons for proper tire sizes, axle spacing, and axle configurations
- To explain the current weight laws and explain options that allow the most legal weight possible on various combinations
About the Instructor
Greg Hayes is a retired State Patrol Lieutenant. During the last 16 years of his career, Greg supervised the commercial vehicle enforcement in northwestern Minnesota.
Contact Information
Greg Hayes
Phone: 218-684-1764
Email: Greg Hayes
- Winter load/harvest increase rescource
- 12.5% increase gross weight chart
- 22.5% increase gross weight chart
- 5% increase gross weight chart
