Florida ticket for distance between axles

Understand. Maryland doesn't give you the chance to get a permit they will write you. Say you have a 53' stationary spread

 

Most states don’t offer permits if you don’t meet KPRA, but FL does, and the OP didn’t say what kind of trailer was being pulled, only that the driver got a ticket. If the trailer being pulled doesn’t have a rear axle that slides or a sliding tandem and is over 48ft then a permit in FL is an option.

 

Didn't know Florida did, I had a spread but it was a 45' I have 53' tandems now. Never had to worry when I ran Florida, as I have an air space on my tractor and trailer. I am thinking the driver slid the tandems to the rear at the dock and forgot to slide them forward

 

Also if I remember correctly, Pennsylvania has some wierd laws, and they get you for the bridge law

 

It’s not a bridge law. Lol. And I’m not sure if PA has a KPRA regulation or not, I don’t run there. I was only trying to answer the OP’s questions about FL since that’s what they were asking about.

As for your other post, the driver could’ve set the tandems to be legal on weight at 42ft or something and got a ticket for being over 41ft. Or the driver could be pulling a spread axle over 48ft. Who knows, the OP didn’t say. It doesn’t mean the tandems were all the way back just because they got a ticket. FL has marks painted on their scales and if you’re close to 41ft and don’t have a permit to show them they will park you and measure.

 

Your probably right. When I ran to Florida I was always light, heavy coming out but never had my tandems past the 40' used to live in Pa, but they have so many stupid truck laws I can remember them. But thanks for the Florida info

 

Nobody measures their kingpin to the axle
Unless their going into California.
If they tell you they do they're lying.

All the these guys saying the the driver should
Have known better is ########.
I've crossed the whole country many of times
With the tandems almost all the way to the rear.
So have many others.

It was the only way to get the load legal,
And it sure as hell beats going back to get
It reworked.

The DOT had to write a ticket that day and your
Driver just happened to be the next guy to roll
Through the scale.

They can't get us for logs anymore so they
Have to find something.
I got a ticket a year ago for,mud flap sailing in
The wind, in Arizona.
Talk about some made up bull. I never heard of it.

If the wind blows your mudflap more than 8 inches
Of the ground while going down the highway at 70
Miles an hour. That's a ticket.

Somehow the DOT guy could measure that 8 inches
Just by sitting in his car while I blew by him.

Moral of the story, just pay the ticket and move on.

 

Very common knowledge... Driver should have known. Driver should pay it, because he should have known. Waste of time to try and fight it... You will just incure more debt trying to fight it. Many states have such laws. As an owner you should also know these laws.

 

Yep, I got one a couple of years ago.
The upside it that Florida allows more on your rear tandems than anyone else.
44k.
$100 later, I learned.

 

I must have got lucky as a rookie because even I was warned about axle distance going into some states. Even more lucky because 95% of the time, no matter how much the load was, I was able to run axles forward. I loved being able to run full tanks and how the trailer handled. I know a lot of truckers that don't like that. Pay the ticket, learn, and inform others.