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ATA now supports longer and/or heavier trucks
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I took a few of those coils out of Hammond and boy did it "Teeter" side to side on that one elevated highway ramp with the 20 mph restriction 40 feet off the ground. I took that one at 8 mph feeling it sway. Not again thank you. <br /> <br />10 chain and 10 straps I used on that monster. Ive hauled many a load but that one I recall almost perfectly. <br /> <br />Another thing about gross weights is bridges. <br /> <br />I recall a bridge in Boring Maryland (Try finding THAT one on Google) where it is a little wooden bridge rated at 4 ton across a set of rail tracks. A smaller sign showed that the fire department could take 3 axle pumpers across it and I used that to get my Mack with a 30 foot milk tanker across loaded 2-3 times a week on my route. <br /> <br />Increasing gross weights only increases damage and strain on countless small bridges rated or not.
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