Topics Covered:

• An update of road weight limits and differences between the state and local systems
• Laws governing gross weights, axle weights, tire weights, road-restriction weights, and seasonally increased (winter and harvest) weights)
• 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 our own configurations and options

Trucking entities that want to load to the maximum legal weight possible. Scale operators, farm 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