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<p>We do haul well over 80K</p><p>Need over sized permits, Weight permits many axles, special rigged power and escorts and lots of time.</p><p>I remembered that our containers used to have permits allowing 98,000 pounds gross weight provided that the box's maximum gross is not exceeded. I have had rigs weighing up to and beyond 130,000 and believe me, performance suffered; the resulting citations wiped out any profit for that run in the thousands of dollars and that was at one scale house. I think now they try to improve by putting third axle under the boxes on the chassis but I have reason to believe that many of our boxes are overweight.</p><p>My solution would be to have regional groups consisting of daycabs taking trailers to and from trains at railheads all around the USA but positioned to favor how the products flow. Instead of trying to dispatch 400 truck drivers out of Nogales to Chicago with Produce, I have a bunch of Nogales locals load these into trains and have the Chicago people unload it.</p>
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