Guam § 5107 - Gross Weight, Axle, and Wheel Loads.

§ 5107. Gross Weight, Axle, and Wheel Loads.

No motor vehicle or combination of vehicles equipped

wholly with pneumatic tires, which has a gross weight, an

axle load, or a wheel load in excess of the limits set forth in

this Section shall be operated or moved upon any public road,

street, or highway; and no vehicle or combination of vehicles

shall be operated on or moved over any bridge or other

highway structure if the gross weight, including vehicle and

load, exceeds the posted maximum gross weight limitation

for the bridge or other highway structure.

(a) The total gross weight, in pounds, imposed on any

public road, street, or highway by any axle group on a vehicle

or combination of vehicles shall not exceed the following

when the distance between the first and last axles of the group

under consideration is:

(1) forty (40) inches or less; the axle load shall not

exceed twenty thousand (20,000) pounds;

(2) more than forty (40) inches, but not more than

eight (8) feet; the tandem axle weight imposed shall not

exceed thirty-four thousand (34,000) pounds.

(b) The total gross weight, in pounds, imposed on any

public road, street, or highway by any axle group on a vehicle

or combination of vehicles shall not exceed that resulting

from application of the Bridge Formula:

W = 500 (LN/(N-1) + 12N + 36) when the distance

between the first and last axles of the axle group under

consideration is over eight (8) feet and where

W = maximum gross weight in pounds carried on any

axle group,

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L = distance in feet between the outer axles of any

axle group, to the nearest foot, and

N = number of axles in group under consideration;

provided that two (2) consecutive sets of tandem axles may

carry a gross load of thirty-four thousand (34,000) pounds

each providing the overall distance between the first and last

axles of such consecutive sets of tandem axles is thirty-six

(36) feet or more; and provided also that the overall gross

weight does not exceed eighty thousand (80,000) pounds.

(c) No vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be used

or operated on any public road, street, or highway with:

(1) a load upon any single or tandem axle or

combination of axles which exceeds the carrying

capacity of the axles specified by the manufacturer; or

(2) with a total weight in excess of its designed

capacity as indicated by its designed gross vehicle

weights or gross combination weights.

(d) The single axle weight shall not exceed twenty

thousand (20,000) pounds.

(e) The maximum wheel load imposed upon any

public road, street, or highway shall not exceed ten thousand

(10,000) pounds.

(f) The Director of the Department of Public Works

(DPW Director) may place and maintain signs to limit the

gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles traveling

over a bridge or other highway structure in the interest of

public safety when it is determined that the theoretical load

carrying capacity of the bridge or structure is less than the

maximum gross vehicular weight allowed by this Chapter.

(g) The DPW Director may issue an Overweight

Vehicle Load Permit for a vehicle that meets the axle group

load requirements of the formula in Subsection (b) of this

Section, but with a gross vehicle weight in excess of eighty

thousand (80,000) pounds. Such special permit shall be

issued in accordance with § 5114 of this Chapter.

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CH. 5 SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD LIMITATIONS

AND RESTRICTION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES