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Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR)
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In the AASHTO Green Book there's a table of vehicle dimensions but no weights. In the AASHTO Bridge Spec's you'll find the design live load but not a table for various types of vehicles. This is the closet the AASHTO bridge specs came to gross vehicle weight for actual trucks:
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The diagrams above came out of the 1983 AASHTO Maintenance Manual but they're also in the current AASHTO Manual for bridge Evaluation, Page 6-67.
The table I cited in the 2011 Green Book is on Page 2-3.
The table I cited in the 2011 Green Book is on Page 2-3.
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