Kingpin Settings

Don't forget Maryland with their overhang limits.

 

PA is 41' to center of rear axle group. Last time I checked it was wrong in the atlas.

Also in Illinois you can be longer on class I and II highways and a certain distance off the highway.

Mikeeee

 

see guys everyday with the tandems all the way back and they tell you,"it's the only way it will scale".

thnx for the update.

I buy a new atlas every year, just for that kind of info. (the cheap one)

 

You guys are saying the bridge is measured from the center of the tandems to the center of the king Pin. Are you sure thats correct?

Everytime I've been measured out here in CA they stretched the tape from the center of my rear trailer axle to the center of my king pin.

 

it is different for each state.

Look at the first post again, it specifies.

Mikeeee

 

Each state has it's own rule.

 

Again you guys are confusing bridge law with kingpin to tandem law. Bridge law is ALWAYS measured center of front axle to center of rear most axle. It has ZERO to do with your kingpin.

Don't they teach you this stuff in school?

 

They didn't teach you? Bridge law is from kingpin to tandem. Sorry you have been misinformed.

 

Here is an FHWA document regarding the subject.

http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/Freight/publications/brdg_frm_wghts/index.htm

Mikeee

 

This is the "coin-flip" selection ... get weights right and LOOK like a moron (all stretched out)? or get length "looking about right", and hope they WEIGH you across giving you the benefit of the doubt, without looking too close at the weights?

All the way back, any CHP with half a brain knows he has a sure-fire fine from a half mile away, being heavy on the trailer is much harder to detect visually, without rolling onto a scale. I'll look good visually and keep my fingers crossed.