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interstate weight limits?

What are the weight limits (gross vehicle weight) of the interstates across the US?

a government link would be nice...

Update:

so if i have 500 axles, i can have a load of 500,000 pounds?

what is the gross vehicle weight of us interstates from a site like fhwa? or federal

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It depends on your number of axles and the distance between them. this is known as the "bridge law". check out this pdf file for more info.

    www.randmcnally.com/pdf/tdm

    /Federal_Bridge.pdf

  • 1 decade ago

    It depends how many axles are supporting the weight...

  • 1 decade ago

    80.000 lbs. ?

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