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Freight load and trailer fit calculator
How many pallets fit a trailer, the load's weight against the legal limit, and the trailer's cube use.
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Freight load and trailer fit calculatorForge by Norventus
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A load plan, an axle-by-axle weight estimate with how far to slide the tandem, the securement the load needs and what the rate pays per pallet, with sources. Numbers in the result and in the plain-words read point here.
- 123 CFR 658.17, WeightCodeeCFR (Federal Highway Administration)The federal Interstate limits used here: 20,000 lb on a single axle, 34,000 lb on a tandem, 80,000 lb gross, and the steer axle limit of 20,000 lb or the manufacturer's axle rating, whichever is lower.
- 2Federal Bridge Formula Weights (FHWA-HOP-19-028)GuideFederal Highway Administration, Office of OperationsHow the bridge formula can hold a truck under 80,000 lb when its axles are close together, with the table of allowed weights by axle count and spacing.
- 349 CFR 393.106, General requirements for securing articles of cargoCodeeCFR (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations)The aggregate working load limit of the tiedowns must be at least half the weight of the cargo they secure; how each tiedown counts toward it.
- 449 CFR 393.110, Minimum number of tiedownsCodeeCFR (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations)The length rule for cargo not blocked at the front: 1 tiedown up to 5 ft and 1,100 lb, 2 up to 10 ft, then 1 more for each extra 10 ft or part of it.
- 5Cargo securement rulesGuideFederal Motor Carrier Safety AdministrationFMCSA's plain-language page and the Driver's Handbook on Cargo Securement: blocking, bracing, load bars and working load limits.
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