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As far as I am aware you can't deduct wheels and add that as potential. Also if I'm not mistaken, so much is added to your vehicle weight to accommodate for persons and fuel. Maybe Im just misunderstanding your question. I know I'm a DA but it kind of sounds like your asking, if I get pulled over and am over weight by 400lbs can I convince the trooper to allow me to take off wheels. Wich is a good one. I'd tell him hold on while I drain 100 gal of fuel on the ground. You got me laughing now, please clarify for this DA.
That reminds me of when I was hauling garbage and we weren't allowed to go over gvwr per the company rules. When ever I would cross the landfill scale and be over by a hair, I'd be throwing everything out the cab and toolbox, chains, spill kits soaked in hyd oil, fire extinguishers, straps and bars, shovel all the slop out, and my dinner sack. Everybody would laugh there a$$=$ off but I stayed out of trouble and kept my safety bonus. Lol hahaha
ahhh the good ole days
Gass on it and don't look in the rear view.
I've mostly read that most states will allow 500-1000 lbs over load before they enforce but 1 rookie cop can debunk all that. Weights set by manufacturer can't be changed ( with out going over the river and through the woods, over the rainbow and an act of Congress with a few senators in your back pocket). Front axle 6000, rear axle 9750, yes that's 15,750 lbs and gvwr is set at 14k, so 1750 difference. Most of the time these values are set on the weakest link of the puzzle, wich is obviously not the axles. Lots of times the manufacture is safe guarding themselves so to not max out all parts and pieces to the brink of maximum specs and possible failure. 43k is a pretty hefty gcwr number to work with and I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate not many of us will probably reach to have to worry about removing items , (ie wheels) to stay under weight. I would have to say that in my personnel 25 yr experience with dot and there inspections that they will allow you to shift weight around and or permanently remove items to be picked up by someone else, for the most part, most of them will work with you , but there not going to let you speculate about removing necessary parts from your vehicle or trailer to hypothetically reduce your weight to be legal or gain you capacity, with out laughing there @$$=$ off at you anyway snd then putting a lock on it.
