Brown Swiss
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Load to La Veta Colorado, not the best
roads getting around town with a semi!
roads getting around town with a semi!
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David from Kansas
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Interesting. Never been to La Veta but assuming it is in the San Luis Valley??? What are you hauling to a town of 800 population??
Brown Swiss
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Called armorflex, concrete blocks connected by cable, they are putting it in the ditch/crick bed to prevent erosion! The guy said the area burned back in 2018!
Brown Swiss
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Didn't think of it but I will be rolling through your state tommorrow with a load of straw, I'm in texhoma for the night, going up through Dodge City to Salina then up to Nebraska and on home to Wisconsin! Never asked why but they said stay out of Missouri!?
Josh-nhihguy
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Imagine driving on that stuff with these! We try to stay home on those days
Brown Swiss
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Michigan? When I went to auction school there was a guy little older then me talking about driving the grain trains! Getting into La Veta was little sketchy, high winds and snow drifting across most places turning to glare ice, apparently they don't use salt just some sand! Guy running with me said I have been stuck in Wisconsin for too long! Lol
Josh-nhihguy
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This is South Dakota. I've heard Michigan also allows large trains. The wind is really a big factor when it comes to pulling these... Almost as much as the ice! But yeah haha it's very interesting compared to just a single trailer!
Matt Thomas
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La Veta is east of the Valley. East of the first pass on Hwy 160. Right at the base of the foothills.
The mountains you see in the background are the Spanish Peaks. Interesting mountains.
The mountains you see in the background are the Spanish Peaks. Interesting mountains.
Matt Thomas
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Area has been hit with drought really bad over the last few years. Wild fires have claimed lots of homes but I don't think any loss of life. That fire in 2018 was horrible.
Loren in Iowa
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Where did you go to auction school?
Texasmark1
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So how much of the 80k DOT weight limit is in the tractor? A lot of rock buckets around here with 400-500 mile retired OTR sleepers. Tractor and empty trailer weigh half the allowable load.
Brown Swiss
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Missouri auction school, it was held in Clarksville Indiana at the holiday inn, was March 2001! I graduated high school in May 2001, so I joked that I graduated college before high school! Lol
Josh-nhihguy
Member
Showcrop, the truck and trailers, and some
add-ons like the pusher and accessories
put it closer to the 200k mark. The truck
was 4 years old when I bought it and the
trailers were new. I've looked at some
5900s. Wish I had one for a dump truck.
Constantly look at wet kits for this truck
but of course that opens a whole new can
of worms.
add-ons like the pusher and accessories
put it closer to the 200k mark. The truck
was 4 years old when I bought it and the
trailers were new. I've looked at some
5900s. Wish I had one for a dump truck.
Constantly look at wet kits for this truck
but of course that opens a whole new can
of worms.
Josh-nhihguy
Member
I am unsure if you're asking me or Brown Swiss. This setup grosses at about 140,000. The tractor is around 20,000 pounds by itself. 33,000 with the first trailer. 45,000 is the entire setup.
Texasmark1
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I believe that. I lost my Class A CDL when I retired and wasn't using it (thank you Texas...smirk) and have been away from it......gee time flies, maybe 20 years now. Used to be that rigs running on US roadways were limited to 80k# unless running under a special use permit.
Where/how do you run a rig like that, and no doubt it's beautiful and seems to have all the whistles and bells?
Where/how do you run a rig like that, and no doubt it's beautiful and seems to have all the whistles and bells?
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