CHAINING...are you ready?

Here's the scoop on chaining CA style.....(after getting the tech lesson from the formerly known as teenager....smart phones aren't that smart if the user needs to contact a youngster for instructions!)
Stopped in to have a chat with the "powers that be" at Dunsmuir. Told them what we talked about here, that one driver was required to re-install chains from forward drag axle to rear drag axle....Sgt. Hermstad got on the phone right away with Truckee, and Truckee knows which CalTrans "checker" is responsible for the miscommunication and will be schooled about the regs!

Now the regs...don't go completely be the pictures, they could not show an "option of choice" with the shading of tires for chain placement. However, there is on the bottom of the inside fold, first inside page, the statement allowing either non drive axle for application. Evidently (the Sgt's words) staggering of chains is not a part of the program, but, a driver can opt to place chains on the inside tire of a set of duals......after saying this, and pointing at the picture, he just shook his head, and the other two officers started laughing.

Here is the current flyer with regs and applications....can be obtained at any scale (in snow country...Banning says they don't do that stuff!)
http://imgur.com/a/Ay3gM

 

On the third pic...and the second....at the bottom, it shows "acceptable on either axle of semi-trailers".
So...forward or rear axle.....and of course, inside or outside tires.....LOL....no staggering any longer!