differences between US and Sweden

What is your deal? A spread axle can not be loaded heavier without a permit. No truck can. Spread axle just is a less of a pain in the rear getting it to scale correctly.

 

Yes they can. On a truck with an 80k limit to be legal you MUST have the weights at 12k on the steering 34k on the drives and 34k on the trailer if it's a closed tandem. (as I'm sure you know) However if your trailer is a spread axle, 10'-1" is common (however some states recognize an 8' spread) you can have no more than 34k on the drives but up to 40k on the spread.

Here is a link to the US Federal Bridge Formula.

 

oh my god! Here we go an other nobody who thinks he know everything when really you don't know anything. How can a spread axle be less pain in the ##### when it's harder to turn with it, harder to back up with it and it eats tires like crazy, so tell me that? So what was your point again? It can be loaded heavier as long as it is toward the back. I guess i have to go over this again a 10 foot spread can "legally" hold 10 tons per axle. Depending on what the weight of the tractor and trailer (empty) is you can load it heavier then a trailer with tandems because if you have a trailer with tandems and trying to get 80k gross on it is a goal but with a spread you can actually do it. So to make it easy for you lets say my tractor and trailer (empty) are 35k, i can put 45k on my spread and still be legal at 80k.

Just remembetr this, next time you try to type something make sure there actually isn't a person who had a spread axle reefer on here who knows how it works.

Do you even drive a spread reefer?

 

Correction on my comment above, i meant to say "that there isn;t a person who had, not had but has a reefer lol.

 

I'm not trying to start an argument but the spread is worth every penny. I'll take the tire wear over the hassle with weighing all the time, I've seen too many drivers waste time with the whole weight/slide/weigh/slide crap and still can't get the weight on the steering without overloading another axle group. If you never haul anywhere close to max weight a tandem is fine. I'll dump the rear axle and spin a circle around most other trucks, load and go and never get hassled by the scales. It took a couple thousand dollars worth of overload tickets before a guy here bought a spread axle dump trailer. No more worries about where the load is placed, same applies to vans/reefers. Portable scales here love to pull over trucks because if they can't get them for over gross they can almost always get them for over axle.

 

You actually said what I already know. When you bark off comments on here about spread axle you keep saying you can load heavier. You are still limited to 80,000 no matter what. We are saying the same thing you have to yell at someone to feel better about it. So again, what's your deal?

 

No I don't drive a spread reefer. Started pulling reefers in 1990 though. Pulled a spread flatbed for a while. What's your point?

 

you didn't start no argument. It's just that j.b. And that medicman talking about things they don't know anything about trying to look smart.

 

my point has already been made and anybody who knows anything about this already knows that you don't have any idea about what your trying to talk about. Please do us both a favor and don't embarrass youself any more! You messed up right off the bat when you said a spread is less pain in the rear then a tandem. Wow! A spread is way more money to up keep then a tandem but you didn't know thata s well. So once again please don't embarrass youself. That's why you didn;t awnser the questions buddy lol.

 

Dude you need to chill. Why are you so angry? You're goin to give yourself a stroke. I just don't get people like you, always trying to prove somebody wrong to boost your super-truckerness.