It’s a free NTEA member benefit - not available for public purchase. Interactive instructions make it user-friendly for those in your company responsible for weight distribution and center of gravity calculations. The TruckScience Axle Weight Calculator offers enhanced features for advanced applications, includingĪlso available, NTEA’s Vehicle Center of Gravity & Axle Weight Calculator is a web-based, interactive tool providing vehicle specification and weight information. You have to know both limits, and whichever is the lesser limit is the one that will determine your max permitted weight. Two of the most important things for determining max permitted weight are: 1) tire weight limit and 2) single axle and axle group limit. It was recently awarded the Best Technology Award 2019. Multiple things go towards calculating the maximum permitted weight for an axle or an axle group.
Since 1985, TruckScience has been developing solutions for the commercial vehicle industry its software is used by body builders, upfitters, truck dealers and fleet companies in 30 countries. You can find the maximum allowed weight specific to your set up here Max axle weight calculator.
Access at /ntea (m embers $399/nonmember $449). Note: Although the maximum legal truck weight for Federal Highways is 80,000 lb., specific maximum allowable axle weights for single, tandem, and other axle arrangements vary, sometime significantly, from one state to the next. NTEA partnered with TruckScience to offer their cloud-based Axle Weight Calculator app to members at a discounted annual subscription rate.