I gotcha!!! I thought it may have been a triple axle, but wasn't sure. Do you feel the need to have 3 axles with that load and does that rig bring alot of attention with the State police in your area? I bought a 12,000# pd and derated it to 9998 to keep under DOT because I do not have a CDL. I hate trailering my unit, and often think of just paying someone to deliver it to the job site. Average prices around here is about 2.50 -3.00 per loaded mile.
Here your commercial if your doing anthing that looks like work, weather it pays or not. And if you truck weighs over 10 000 or your trailer is over 6600 then you are considered a 18 wheeler. Daily circle check records and hours of service must be produced on demand.
The catch 22 is if you licence either the truck or trailer over that weight, then even when you don't weight that much you still have to do the paper work and comply with hours. When were working in the summer and I have my licence up over 10k, I don't drive that truck more then I have to. I bought a 1/2 to run into town with.
The one idiot we had here stopped me on evening, put me on the portable scales, and I was 10440, so he fined me $390.00 for not doing the paper work my walk around inspection, (which I would not have needed if I was 441 lbs lighter) even though the truck had no mechanical defects, it had 11000 miles on it.
So don't kid yourself, they are all on a "quota" system and flat deck pickups and larger trailer are a**hole magnets just like a semi truck.
Here I wish they would put one of those truck police in every commercial vehicle, then when the whole economy colapsed within a week because no one can comply with all the BS rules, they could begin to rethink some of them.
In Ontario you can drive you 300 hp diesel 35' motor home and tow a big a** boat for 30 hours straight to come here fishing, but not you 3500 pickup to the coffee shop.
Ken