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What Happens When a Truck Is Overweight but the Cargo Cannot Be Reduced

Splitting a heavy shipment sounds like the obvious answer to an overweight truck. Take some cargo off, send it on another vehicle and bring the first truck back within legal limits.

What Happens When a Truck Is Overweight but the Cargo Cannot Be Reduced

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Splitting a heavy shipment sounds like the obvious answer to an overweight truck.

Take some cargo off, send it on another vehicle and bring the first truck back within legal limits.

It does not work when the cargo is a single 70,000-pound machine, transformer or […] The post.

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Splitting a heavy shipment sounds like the obvious answer to an overweight truck. Take some cargo off, send it on another vehicle and bring the first truck back within legal limits. It does not work when the cargo is a single 70,000-pound machine, transformer or […] The post.

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  • That works for pallets, boxes and many other ordinary shipments.

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