Ive been pulling a bucket more lately and if I can keep business up I would like to upgrade my old 1/2 round eventually. I was curious on how you guys that pull spread axles dumps across states that use the federal bridge law make inner bridge weight on the drives and trailer axles. Here in IL you loose your exemption of being able to carry 68K on 4 axles if you do not have to consecutive tandems (going to the spread) I have measured and if I put my 5th wheel center (maybe one pine forward) of the drives I can get the 39' required from axle 2 to axle 5 to carry 68K but that still leaves me having to carry 12K on the front. I doubt with the 5th wheel slid that far back I would be able to transfer any weight to the steers. I know individually axling out would be easy its just the 2-5 that I am having problems mathing out correctly. Unless you all just run and dont worry about it. Say run 10.5K or so on the steer and the rest on trailer and drives even though together the would technically be 1500 lbs over on the inner bridge.
Hopefully that made some sort of sense. I would like to run the spread just to be able to always axle out easier on the scales leaving the quarry's since it never seems like i get loaded just right. I see plenty of guys pulling 40' spreads through IL but nobody local to me runs them. Thought it would be nice to run one with a rear axle dump to get into tight places since it would turn on the front axle at slow speeds and axle out easier. I run local just trying to figure out how to make it work to my advantage and not be more of pain than the extra worn out tires are worth.
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Nobody on here pulls a spread axle 40' dump?
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I ran a Ravens covered wagon 48 foot flatbed trailer aluminum in coil work and pipe etc. It had a 10 foot 1 inch spread back there with real axle dump.
You could scale 20K a axle back there 40,000 pounds on the ### end.
If you handed me any trailer with at least a 10 foot one inch spread Ima be happy to load it up and run it. Issues come in when you come up against wheel base length and spacing between trailer and tractor etc. In the Bridge Law algebra.
I actually prefer the spread against a normal tandem. The normal tandem is inadequate. And gets abuse in sliding back and forth all the time, skating tires, flexing airlines and so on etc etc etc etc. -
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Hmmm.
What happens if you got rid of that 40 and got a 48? -
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Pretty much I want my cake and to eat it too. That and a spread axle dump looks great and can pivot on the front axle and get in tight places since my W9 turns pretty much like a bargex1Heavy Thanks this. -
Oh wait...
Ha.
I guess if you got length you have your spread. But load it like a 40. Ignoring temporarily the extra what? 8 feet of air?WHY NOT Thanks this.
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