Load configuration

@Long FLD is the guy to ask.

 

Does the load have to be tarped? If not I’ve found that the ride is better loading the ends of the trailer, it takes that buck out of it compared to loading 40ft right in the center. This load below is 20’s, the half unit on top may have been an 18 for weight I can’t recall for sure. But this is how we hauled long stuff back to a triad plant that didn’t need tarped. And provided you can load like this and have your weights right for Canada and the States this is how I’d suggest.

 

Whats the weight of the lumber itself?

 

Just guessing I would say 65-66k. You can only go 101k in Canada on 6 axles.

 

Looking back through my phone I split a lot of no tarp loads. We used to run these like this because the stickers weren’t banded to the unit and it was a pain in the rear trying to pyramid them to stretch the load out.

 

I'm confused. That looks like a 8 axle.

 

At least in MI, when you say 6 axle or 8 axle you are talking about only the trailer. If someone was to ask me I'd call that a 4 axle. Yes it's not quite accurate as it only counts the trailer, but around here in MI even our 8 axle trailers rarely use a tag axle on the power unit.

 

Ok. It's a regional thing. Thanks for the clarification.

 

Lift axles have to be in the air in Canada. So 3 axle truck and 3 axles on the trailer north of the border, then drop the 2 lift axles in the States.

 

Really. What's the point of having drop axles. Just so you can legalize your bridge weights in US?

 

Yes. In Western Canada you can’t have manual control of lift axles. In the States you’d be about 88k or so gross on 6 axles out west. With 8 you can bridge about 105k. Canada let’s you go 101k on 6 so it’s a happy medium.