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I have a medium duty truck, 1981 International, 10 feet high by 24 feet long, I need to go to Houston. Already bought it, and it's in Inverness, Florida.
Affirmative. I'm trying to coordinate a look-see preview in Florida, and I cannot see my SteelSoldier brother members because when I go to resources and click on membership map, it comes up with a large paragraph about a google key, or other nonsense. I cannot capture the message and paste it...
Had a conversation with a good friend this evening who hauls his bulldozer all over Texas and he informed me that all trailers with a load (that's cargo) rating over 4,000 pounds now needs an inspection sticker on the trailer. Any Texas members have any intel on this?
Google up Titan Insurance; I have both my 5 ton and deuce insured with them and they are a growing company and I like them. They are aware of this site and have no problems insuring our vehicles.
The 1997 model 923 which I own is 21,750 pounds empty on the data plate. Depending on how one titles one's vehicle in Texas, regardless of full air brakes, as long as one is not engaged in a 'commercial enterprise', then you do not need a cdl to drive said 923. Sorry for the compound sentence.
Well you got a thanks from me because I've been pondering this for some time. Here in Texas I have the big 923 and only have a regular dl, and for the record, I'm just going to haul flowers in it. It's just my FUN vehicle.
For what it's worth, mine shifts until I get the rpm AND the speed of the truck up enough to where it shifts through. I have 7 speeds forward in the "D" pushbutton selector setting. I can hover all day in 1st gear, if I don't give it enough juice to get going. I still have not figured it out...
I just pulled out the biggest mother of all palm tree stumps here in El Paso today with my 923 you can imagine. But that was today. Yesterday, 21,750 pounds of empty truck just hopped up and down on the street and we broke chains, straps, you name it. Bottom line: get the stump soaked, I mean...