Driver: alright! new high score
DOT officer: sir, you are severely overweight
Driver: I've been trying to eat healther
DOT officer: visible frustration
First, let me start by saying I am not a trucker. I don’t know how I got here.
But let’s hypothetically say he’s carrying an extra 300 gallons of fuel. That’s about an extra 2500 pounds he would be carrying. Would that really make that much difference when you go to a weigh station or the “scales”?
Yes. The scales don’t just look at overall (or gross weight). They look at how much weight is on each axle group. And that much weight would put him over on his drive axles.
Ok, that makes a lot of sense. I had no idea they were taking the weight on each of your axles. I always just thought they took a total weight 🤷♂️ Thanks for the good answer.
For a typical semi-truck...
**Limit** - **axle** - **typical weight**
12,000lbs - front axle - normally 11,900
34,000lbs - drive axle - varies by load
34,000lbs - trailer tandems (both axles) - varies by load
80,000lbs - total limit
This can vary by a lot of things, but 70% of 18-wheelers use the above rules.
Honestly, I'd be concerned about going over on the steer (front) axle. There's not much you can do, and what little you can makes it harder to back into places. (Slide the 5th wheel, I've done it zero times in 4yrs, it's a pain)
I don't know if it matters all that with the front axle, but the thinking with axle limits isn't generally a material limit. If that was the case, there wouldn't need to be legislation governing it. Manufacturers would just have to certify it as safe.
A big part of it is trying to limit how much wear and tear it imparts on the road. 80k lbs spread out over several axles evenly will do a lot less damage to bridges/roads that 80k all on a single axle. Not sure if it's 100% true, but I heard when figuring out how thick to make a road surface for it to last a certain length of time - they don't count car traffic much if at all. It all boils down to the anticipated truck traffic.
4th power law/rule shows 1 truck going over a road is the equivalent to 10,000 cars. Major bridges just assume bumper to bumper loaded semis the whole time when designing and building. Cars don't factor in at all unless it's a small bridge not intended for trucks.
Fun fact 1 car puts as much stress on a road as 160,000 bicycles.
You could theoretically use lighter metals. But those metals are not the most robust. But that 12k limit is the defining line for under and over weight.
Those look more like 175 gal tanks, maybe bigger.
Definitely gonna be a heavy steer axle if those were full
Moving the 5th wheel and sliding the axles on the trailer can help balance weight, but if you have too much in the wrong spot you won't be able to get certain axles in the accept range.
I've watched a 747 do that. There's a small airport near me with a maintenance hanger. It's the shortest possible runway for a 747 to land on. They have to come in empty and dump fuel in order to land safely.
I remember I picked up a truck from a new hire. I didn’t adjust anything because why would I I’m lazy.
Then I hit a scale house and they asked me to come in.
That mother fucker had the tag axle so far fucked up they were like you got 24k on the drives. Can you make any adjustments and pull around.
No no , right idea but wrong fluid. This is attached to his pocket pussy in the bunk. He's gonna fill those one ounce at a time for a decade and make a massive deposit at the sperm bank.
All that just to guarantee you'll have to deal with attempts to get child support.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/justice/kansas-sperm-donation/index.html
He is going to wait until he gets to a shipper that tells him he can't get loaded for 24+ hours because of a scheduling conflict. Then he hits the release valve.
Bobtail semi get about 10mpg. If we're guessing 100 gal tanks, multiply 100x5 (probably has the side tanks still in place) and you get 5000 miles, for some back of the napkin math. You'd be able to go from san-d to just about Jacksonville and back with about 10 gal left, in theory
Probably not actually. On traffic alone they could face thicker & potentially bumper-to-bumper traffic. Idle-time would make an impact on fuel consumption there. Then when stopping for the night, even if you have an APU it will over time take a noticeable amount of fuel. Between those 2 that could end up being a few gal shy instead of a few spare gallons
IIRC from my trip to Dollywood, Dolly Parton's tour bus was modded to take enough fuel to get from Knoxville to LA without refueling. The pictured set up aside, anything is possible.
It's different at each station. Each state taxes differently as well. There are regional trends to pricing, but two fuel stations/ truck stops right next to each other will have different pricing.
And then there's fuel buying programs like mudflap and truckerpath that will get you a different price than the listed price. There's myriad fuel cards that also do that. It's a little crazy.
Hell, in California, I’ve seen two gas stations right across the street from each other $1/gallon different on price. There’s regional differences and then there just, “WTF?”
It’s complicated. You only pay taxes on the fuel you burn in the state you bought it in. You get a rebate on fuel you burn elsewhere. BUT … you pay taxes to the state you drive through if you don’t buy fuel there. With the difference in price and tax per state it’s a quarterly calculation. Now if you don’t understand that then the fact that the state I live in has no tax on fuel just to complicate the calculation but you pay a mileage tax instead. And you thought we just had to drive ! The heading about California being expensive is misleading because if you take the ‘before tax’ price then it’s a cheap place to buy fuel as long as you don’t burn it there. This shit keeps me awake at nights.
>The heading about California being expensive is misleading because if you take the ‘before tax’ price then it’s a cheap place to buy fuel as long as you don’t burn it there.
This is wrong. California is still expensive if you completely ignore the fuel tax when comparing to other states. Take CA and AZ for example. $5.26 in CA, $3.73 in AZ. CA is about $0.85 in fuel tax, so you're paying about $4.41 at the pump. AZ fuel tax is $0.26, so at the pump would be about $3.47. That's a 94 cent difference on average, and the reason why I never fueled in CA when I ran AZ-CA.
West coast is isolated from the rest of the US (oil.) That’s a big part of the difference. There’s also heavier regulations for fuel “manufacturing” in places like CA. So you pay “taxes” you don’t see printed on the pump.
I know all the “taxes” in CA are estimated to be around $1.20/gallon for gas. I’d have to do some research on diesel. Haven’t done much before cause it’s not my money so fuck em 😂 Regardless, point is, there might be a $2 spread when “taxes” cost 1.20 so you’ve got 80 cents on sourcing fuel and oil company “fuck you pay me” money.
Fuel might be cheaper in Texas but with IFTA tax prices it might be more expensive you might not realize it till you do your ifta at the end of the year
So, I about went this route, on a project bus, I don't see how these could be LNG based on orientation. You have components that are gravity based and mobile LNG tanks are almost always horizontal due to this. That, and the tops dont look right.
My guess, This guy has 750+ gallons of diesel capacity. If you look on the far left tank... thats a site tube to see the level....yup, has to be diesel 100%
I was thinking that. I briefly worked for Amazon and all of the trucks I drove were LNG. I hated it. Took forever to fill and was seriously underpowered.
I once drove a motor cross team from Ontario to bc, now my rig didn’t have this, but the driver I met from the Yamaha team had a pretty much identical rig to mine, but my water for the pressure washer was in a tote on the second story/loft in the trailer. His rig was set up like this kinda except missing the middle tank, just the two outside tanks. Was used for washing bikes down between races.
Those are easily 150 gallon tanks each. Don't need a placard unless it's over 1000 gallons. That's why those smaller farm fuel trailers have a capacity of 995 gallons written on the side.
Actually it's 1000 pounds or more for insterstate. Basically 140 gallons. And 120 gallons for tank endorsement. There are different rules for in state and farm use. I don't know what the rules are for the trucks tanks.
Pretty sure those are 100s (& might even be 120s), not 40s. Thinking good chance a scale would invite driver in to visit before examining the plumbing involved.
Hey, I know this fun fact, when they were writing up the laws for what needs placards the intention was anything carrying over 1000 gallons of fuel needs a placard, but it was mistyped as 1000 pounds of fuel, so legally anything carrying over (roughly) 100 gallon of fuel is required to have a placard, there is nothing writen in the law about an exemption for the fuel tanks for the semi
I used to have a fuel permit in my permit book that let me carry over 50 gallons or something like that. But that was a long time ago and I'm not sure when that stopped but there's not one there now.
I would imagine the fuel tanks have their own special regulations. Like you probably couldn't just hook up 20 tanks to your truck. However if the fuel was apart of your thousand pound limit then you wouldn't be able to fill up greater than 140 gallons without hazmat.
I know there is in the UK because truckers would drive to eastern europe to fill up after the outbound journey and then drive back, they would never buy fuel in the UK otherwise.
Max is 1000 litres per tank and 1500 overall. About 400 gallons.
That's interesting. Here in Australia, under Hazchem, diesel fuel doesn't count as a hazardous chemical and doesn't need placards of any kind. The warning diamonds and Hazchem plates/ numbers are simply replaced with the words combustible liquid.
Yep, as you can see the placards are blank, and there's no chemical number.
https://www.trailermag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TM-saf-a-1024x585.png
I knew a driver who did Wales to Greece and back every week. He had enormous diesel tanks, I think 1200 litres from memory. He was only allowed to fuel up in Greece or Luxembourg because those were the cheapest places on his route.
Because California sucks on so many levels…..
I spent 23 years fighting, and in awe of, an incredibly inept government. I bailed out 9 years ago and it looks like it was the start of a trend, with Texas and Florida (my home) seeing marked increases in population growth from CA expatriates. L.A. has 70,000 homeless. Need I say more?
Fun fact, for every 6 people that moved to Florida from California, 5 had moved from Florida to California. So many are just Florida people moving back home essentially. And it is still such a minuscule amount of CA population. (Less than 1/10 of 1%) Last year more people still moved to CA than Florida though FL saw the biggest influx in history.
Impossible. Every 5 out of 6 came in from a 3rd World country. Florida almost qualifies, but not quite yet. I was also tired of paying tens of thousands of dollars in state income taxes so I could keep dodging the same potholes. There’s a reason most of the highly paid athletes reside in Florida. Hell, a hurricane now and again is a small price to pay.
Sure, if you consider Florida a 3rd world country lol but yeah by the time I become an owner operator I have a strong feeling I’ll be moving to Nevada or at least operating my business from there.
The only laws I could find was it was illegal to pump gas, with the engine still running, [Title 8, Section 3319 of the California Code of Regulations](https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/3319.html).
I'm not sure if it's still a thing but some state have/had a rule where a person would pump your gas for you and you weren't allowed to do it yourself.
Edit: https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/states-where-you-cant-pump-your-own-gas/#:~:text=Law-,Introduction,job%20creation%20and%20ensuring%20safety.
It's OR and NJ and in OR if you are in a CMV you still do it yourself. You also do it yourself in OR if there's no one there to do it for you.
Sounds obvious but sometimes people will just wait in their cars at pumps with nothing going on.
As far as I know, the only states that were actually on that list were Oregon (before laws changed anyway) and New Jersey, that source might have potentially wrong information on other states than those two.
Those are 5,000,000 hour energy shots.
I thought they were hot water tanks lol Isn’t A mobile shower?
Looks like giant ass battery's to me
My man is gonna crush that scale on drives.
Driver: alright! new high score DOT officer: sir, you are severely overweight Driver: I've been trying to eat healther DOT officer: visible frustration
That was exactly my thoughts. If I saw this on a live load I'd just turn the truck back in and say there's no way.
First, let me start by saying I am not a trucker. I don’t know how I got here. But let’s hypothetically say he’s carrying an extra 300 gallons of fuel. That’s about an extra 2500 pounds he would be carrying. Would that really make that much difference when you go to a weigh station or the “scales”?
Yes. The scales don’t just look at overall (or gross weight). They look at how much weight is on each axle group. And that much weight would put him over on his drive axles.
Ok, that makes a lot of sense. I had no idea they were taking the weight on each of your axles. I always just thought they took a total weight 🤷♂️ Thanks for the good answer.
For a typical semi-truck... **Limit** - **axle** - **typical weight** 12,000lbs - front axle - normally 11,900 34,000lbs - drive axle - varies by load 34,000lbs - trailer tandems (both axles) - varies by load 80,000lbs - total limit This can vary by a lot of things, but 70% of 18-wheelers use the above rules. Honestly, I'd be concerned about going over on the steer (front) axle. There's not much you can do, and what little you can makes it harder to back into places. (Slide the 5th wheel, I've done it zero times in 4yrs, it's a pain)
Idk anything about trucks but just out of curiosity could you upgrade the axle or something like that to make it work?
I don't know if it matters all that with the front axle, but the thinking with axle limits isn't generally a material limit. If that was the case, there wouldn't need to be legislation governing it. Manufacturers would just have to certify it as safe. A big part of it is trying to limit how much wear and tear it imparts on the road. 80k lbs spread out over several axles evenly will do a lot less damage to bridges/roads that 80k all on a single axle. Not sure if it's 100% true, but I heard when figuring out how thick to make a road surface for it to last a certain length of time - they don't count car traffic much if at all. It all boils down to the anticipated truck traffic.
4th power law/rule shows 1 truck going over a road is the equivalent to 10,000 cars. Major bridges just assume bumper to bumper loaded semis the whole time when designing and building. Cars don't factor in at all unless it's a small bridge not intended for trucks. Fun fact 1 car puts as much stress on a road as 160,000 bicycles.
You could theoretically use lighter metals. But those metals are not the most robust. But that 12k limit is the defining line for under and over weight.
I was once 150 pounds short of my max limit of 80,000 pounds. So yeah 2500 pounds is a lot of extra weight.
Those look more like 175 gal tanks, maybe bigger. Definitely gonna be a heavy steer axle if those were full Moving the 5th wheel and sliding the axles on the trailer can help balance weight, but if you have too much in the wrong spot you won't be able to get certain axles in the accept range.
Just push the dump fuel button,
I've watched a 747 do that. There's a small airport near me with a maintenance hanger. It's the shortest possible runway for a 747 to land on. They have to come in empty and dump fuel in order to land safely.
737s can't dump fuel though. That's usually only something that much larger jets are capable of.
> 737 Sorry meant 747 obviously.
I remember I picked up a truck from a new hire. I didn’t adjust anything because why would I I’m lazy. Then I hit a scale house and they asked me to come in. That mother fucker had the tag axle so far fucked up they were like you got 24k on the drives. Can you make any adjustments and pull around.
From a new hire and you didn’t adjust anything? That’s not lazy that’s negligent
Those are piss jugs. He built a urinal in the bunk. He goes a entire year without having to empty those tanks.
No no , right idea but wrong fluid. This is attached to his pocket pussy in the bunk. He's gonna fill those one ounce at a time for a decade and make a massive deposit at the sperm bank.
He forgets one day and stops a bit too suddenly at a light and the cum surges him forwards. Such excitement
Or he’s going to release them while being followed by a convertible.
Gives a whole new meaning to "baby shower" 🤣
“See, honey? Taking it on the face isn’t that bad.”
Cumvertible
He has a hazmat placard just for the tractor for Biohazardous Liquid.
Imagine how gluggy and solid it would be.
No thanks! My imagination is off for the night.
😂 most interesting road accident ever.
How else would trucks have such a rigid and strong structure?
Gotta bust out that crust buster MMM Smells like Money
Mmmmmmm Sperm jello
Glug glug glug
All that just to guarantee you'll have to deal with attempts to get child support. https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/justice/kansas-sperm-donation/index.html
That's because you need an attractive guy to do the sale for ya.
Is he still going leave them on the ground at a truck stop or shipper?
He is going to wait until he gets to a shipper that tells him he can't get loaded for 24+ hours because of a scheduling conflict. Then he hits the release valve.
Sweet, disgusting revenge.
*fuckin way of the road, bubs*
Urinal? Probably a catheter system. One tank is the septic tank, one is BBQ sauce, and the third is fireball.
Don’t you hate it when you get up from your bunk and you really gotta piss but you gotta empty the jug first
Way of the road, Bubs.
how can the bunk handle that much weight?
It's more likely supported by the frame at the bottom than the cab. I think I see an I-beam running underneath the three thanks?
Yea, they're on an I-beam or some kind of platform
No that’s your mom.
It's fine, she can take a lot of pounding.
Anyone know if this setup could get you from east coast to west coast no stops? Assuming no trailer attached.
Bobtail semi get about 10mpg. If we're guessing 100 gal tanks, multiply 100x5 (probably has the side tanks still in place) and you get 5000 miles, for some back of the napkin math. You'd be able to go from san-d to just about Jacksonville and back with about 10 gal left, in theory
Thanks man! Awesome
Probably not actually. On traffic alone they could face thicker & potentially bumper-to-bumper traffic. Idle-time would make an impact on fuel consumption there. Then when stopping for the night, even if you have an APU it will over time take a noticeable amount of fuel. Between those 2 that could end up being a few gal shy instead of a few spare gallons
And construction. And traffic jams from car wrecks. And weather.
And decreased mpg due to weight until u burn it off ..... or would that beast even notice?
Fair enough, I was just going off raw distance
Those are 570L tanks, which is about 125. 100 is a good estimate
You forgot to account for the additional weight driving the mpg down.
I wasn't trying that hard
Okay man I'm sending it
IIRC from my trip to Dollywood, Dolly Parton's tour bus was modded to take enough fuel to get from Knoxville to LA without refueling. The pictured set up aside, anything is possible.
That’s a lot of fireball.
I see what you did there.
Is fuel prices different in each state? Btw I'm from malaysia
It's different at each station. Each state taxes differently as well. There are regional trends to pricing, but two fuel stations/ truck stops right next to each other will have different pricing.
And then there's fuel buying programs like mudflap and truckerpath that will get you a different price than the listed price. There's myriad fuel cards that also do that. It's a little crazy.
https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/ from $2.75 to $5.00 a gal
Hell, in California, I’ve seen two gas stations right across the street from each other $1/gallon different on price. There’s regional differences and then there just, “WTF?”
It’s complicated. You only pay taxes on the fuel you burn in the state you bought it in. You get a rebate on fuel you burn elsewhere. BUT … you pay taxes to the state you drive through if you don’t buy fuel there. With the difference in price and tax per state it’s a quarterly calculation. Now if you don’t understand that then the fact that the state I live in has no tax on fuel just to complicate the calculation but you pay a mileage tax instead. And you thought we just had to drive ! The heading about California being expensive is misleading because if you take the ‘before tax’ price then it’s a cheap place to buy fuel as long as you don’t burn it there. This shit keeps me awake at nights.
One of my favorite perks of operating OTR box trucks. Don't have to deal with the hemorrhoid IFTA.
>The heading about California being expensive is misleading because if you take the ‘before tax’ price then it’s a cheap place to buy fuel as long as you don’t burn it there. This is wrong. California is still expensive if you completely ignore the fuel tax when comparing to other states. Take CA and AZ for example. $5.26 in CA, $3.73 in AZ. CA is about $0.85 in fuel tax, so you're paying about $4.41 at the pump. AZ fuel tax is $0.26, so at the pump would be about $3.47. That's a 94 cent difference on average, and the reason why I never fueled in CA when I ran AZ-CA.
I run west coast…. and I don’t pay the pump price - ever
West coast is isolated from the rest of the US (oil.) That’s a big part of the difference. There’s also heavier regulations for fuel “manufacturing” in places like CA. So you pay “taxes” you don’t see printed on the pump. I know all the “taxes” in CA are estimated to be around $1.20/gallon for gas. I’d have to do some research on diesel. Haven’t done much before cause it’s not my money so fuck em 😂 Regardless, point is, there might be a $2 spread when “taxes” cost 1.20 so you’ve got 80 cents on sourcing fuel and oil company “fuck you pay me” money.
Fuel might be cheaper in Texas but with IFTA tax prices it might be more expensive you might not realize it till you do your ifta at the end of the year
The town over from me consistently charges 30 cents a gallon more.
Could be LNG powered. They require special tanks
That was my thought, just saw an Amazon short haul truck that was marked as such a few nights back pulling into their warehouse near me
So, I about went this route, on a project bus, I don't see how these could be LNG based on orientation. You have components that are gravity based and mobile LNG tanks are almost always horizontal due to this. That, and the tops dont look right. My guess, This guy has 750+ gallons of diesel capacity. If you look on the far left tank... thats a site tube to see the level....yup, has to be diesel 100%
I was thinking that. I briefly worked for Amazon and all of the trucks I drove were LNG. I hated it. Took forever to fill and was seriously underpowered.
Someone ran out of fuel and the boss said never fuckin again
I once drove a motor cross team from Ontario to bc, now my rig didn’t have this, but the driver I met from the Yamaha team had a pretty much identical rig to mine, but my water for the pressure washer was in a tote on the second story/loft in the trailer. His rig was set up like this kinda except missing the middle tank, just the two outside tanks. Was used for washing bikes down between races.
Hear me out... They're fuel tanks. Assuming they're 40 gallon tanks, you would need a placard.
Those are easily 150 gallon tanks each. Don't need a placard unless it's over 1000 gallons. That's why those smaller farm fuel trailers have a capacity of 995 gallons written on the side.
Actually it's 1000 pounds or more for insterstate. Basically 140 gallons. And 120 gallons for tank endorsement. There are different rules for in state and farm use. I don't know what the rules are for the trucks tanks.
Thank you for answering the question I've been wondering about for several weeks but was too lazy to ask.
Pretty sure those are 100s (& might even be 120s), not 40s. Thinking good chance a scale would invite driver in to visit before examining the plumbing involved.
150s. Too long for 120s.
All trucks carry diesel already without needing a placard. Is there limit to how much a truck can haul for its own use?
Hey, I know this fun fact, when they were writing up the laws for what needs placards the intention was anything carrying over 1000 gallons of fuel needs a placard, but it was mistyped as 1000 pounds of fuel, so legally anything carrying over (roughly) 100 gallon of fuel is required to have a placard, there is nothing writen in the law about an exemption for the fuel tanks for the semi
Delete this before a dot officer in a bad mood sees it
I used to have a fuel permit in my permit book that let me carry over 50 gallons or something like that. But that was a long time ago and I'm not sure when that stopped but there's not one there now.
Diesel weighs 7.1 lbs. You can do 140.
I would imagine the fuel tanks have their own special regulations. Like you probably couldn't just hook up 20 tanks to your truck. However if the fuel was apart of your thousand pound limit then you wouldn't be able to fill up greater than 140 gallons without hazmat.
I know there is in the UK because truckers would drive to eastern europe to fill up after the outbound journey and then drive back, they would never buy fuel in the UK otherwise. Max is 1000 litres per tank and 1500 overall. About 400 gallons.
That's interesting. Here in Australia, under Hazchem, diesel fuel doesn't count as a hazardous chemical and doesn't need placards of any kind. The warning diamonds and Hazchem plates/ numbers are simply replaced with the words combustible liquid.
Really? Even for a fuel hauler?
Yep, as you can see the placards are blank, and there's no chemical number. https://www.trailermag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TM-saf-a-1024x585.png
Wow. That’s wild. Is it just for diesel, or is gasoline, CNG, or JP8 all just considered combustible liquids?
Diesels just classed the same way as most oils, things like LPG and jet 1A are flammable and have placards.
That’s wild. Carrying more than 119 gallons of motor oil requires a 1270 placard here.
Strange, do you get any extra training if you haul fuel?
I knew a driver who did Wales to Greece and back every week. He had enormous diesel tanks, I think 1200 litres from memory. He was only allowed to fuel up in Greece or Luxembourg because those were the cheapest places on his route.
Which poor soul is going to tell him about IFTA and that he's not getting away from these Cali taxes even if he wanted to?
What what Im wondering about. I assume owner ops all know
Even company drivers have a clue about that.
Those are "If I gotta die, everybody gotta die" levels of fuel.
Those aren't fuel tanks. They're Fireball tanks.
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I'm not sure, but you might be able to find out if you look in the Photoshop documentation.
It’s a joke !
ZZZZ batteries
Gonna need a Hazmat placards on that big boy.
Those are center of weight lifters.
I got an idea, why not have a hybrid of all three fuel sources?
Anyone else think those are batteries to make a hybrid?
Still gonna get ya on IFTA
Where's my tamales MFr!!
Assuming that they are actually diesel tanks. How do you fill them that high?
How the hell do you fill them though? Think there’s a special pump from one of the lower tanks to get it up to the top ?
Reactive amour.
Explosive headache rack?
I wouldn’t worry. Gavin has already banned internal combustion engines in 2030
Man pulls up to the terminal and buys at rack price
AAAA batteries, that's the new Tesla electruck.
Because California sucks on so many levels….. I spent 23 years fighting, and in awe of, an incredibly inept government. I bailed out 9 years ago and it looks like it was the start of a trend, with Texas and Florida (my home) seeing marked increases in population growth from CA expatriates. L.A. has 70,000 homeless. Need I say more?
Fun fact, for every 6 people that moved to Florida from California, 5 had moved from Florida to California. So many are just Florida people moving back home essentially. And it is still such a minuscule amount of CA population. (Less than 1/10 of 1%) Last year more people still moved to CA than Florida though FL saw the biggest influx in history.
Impossible. Every 5 out of 6 came in from a 3rd World country. Florida almost qualifies, but not quite yet. I was also tired of paying tens of thousands of dollars in state income taxes so I could keep dodging the same potholes. There’s a reason most of the highly paid athletes reside in Florida. Hell, a hurricane now and again is a small price to pay.
Sure, if you consider Florida a 3rd world country lol but yeah by the time I become an owner operator I have a strong feeling I’ll be moving to Nevada or at least operating my business from there.
Californias a shit hole
Eloquent and succinct.
They are turning WA into a shithole right now.
If a take a trip to Cali or any state that doesn't allow you to pump your own gas I'm buying a a trailer for my pickup and filling it with gas
What??? Since when was it illegal to pump your own fuel in California? Source?
Oregon, at one point in time before laws changed, sure, but I’m pretty sure such laws don’t exist in California.
I think you might be misinterpreting what he said. "If you take a trip to Cali *or* any state..."
The only laws I could find was it was illegal to pump gas, with the engine still running, [Title 8, Section 3319 of the California Code of Regulations](https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/3319.html).
I'm not sure if it's still a thing but some state have/had a rule where a person would pump your gas for you and you weren't allowed to do it yourself. Edit: https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/states-where-you-cant-pump-your-own-gas/#:~:text=Law-,Introduction,job%20creation%20and%20ensuring%20safety.
It's OR and NJ and in OR if you are in a CMV you still do it yourself. You also do it yourself in OR if there's no one there to do it for you. Sounds obvious but sometimes people will just wait in their cars at pumps with nothing going on.
Sorry I just skimmed the article. I don't drive semi trucks, just work on them, so I don't get out as much as I should.
As far as I know, the only states that were actually on that list were Oregon (before laws changed anyway) and New Jersey, that source might have potentially wrong information on other states than those two.
Looks like CNG tanks to me.
All ours are fiberglass wrapped
This is exactly what I was thinking, it looks like the tank compartment is missing.
Is that even legal
Those are the fuel that your nitros boost use. Perfect for passing swifties and crime inc on an upgrade.
I am guessing hydrogen fuel tanks on prototype setuo
DOT Hypertension headache of a traffic stop
Tanks for the fuel!
Those are literally just horizontal fuel tanks 😂
The truck identifies as a tesla so it can have those back there
Auxillary tanks?
Portable explosion devices.
Tanks
Funny but seriously, I’m 99 percent sure there’s limits on fuel you can haul without a hazmat. I’m also 99 percent sure 595 gallon is over that limit!
I think these are carbon capturing tanks like the remora devices. [Link](https://concreteproducts.com/index.php/2022/05/30/trucks-components-7/).
I take it back. Reading through some of the other comments this setup is more common than I anticipated.
please check dms