Loads heading to CA

If they don't, they will after you return to them with your scale ticket.

 

Well, I’ll just tell you “You’re flat wrong.”.

5th wheel movement moves the weight, fore and aft, along the tractor’s frame rails, shifting weight between the steer and drive axles. Again, it has zero influence on tandem weight. Only sliding the tandems, fore and aft, along the tandem’s rails changes tandem weight.

I sure hope you’re not a trainer.

 

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Depending on your tractor, and trailer, let's use a Cascadia and a dry van for example, don't ever book a load going into THE COMMUNIST STATE that's over 40K pounds.

Even at 40K it almost has to be loaded perfectly to axle out.

 

Good grief! I’m not going to argue with you.

You’re not changing any aspect of the trailer. The kingpin is in the same place and the tandems are in the same place. Those are the trailer’s load-bearing points. Unless you move the location of one/both of those, the amount of weight being applied at those points doesn’t change. What you do with the 5th wheel does NOT change the amount of weight on the trailer’s load-bearing points.

You need to step away from TTR and go educate yourself.

 

A little trick to load California to be legal. Tell shipper to load trailer just like a 48 foot trailer. If your pulling a 53 foot trailer you need the last 5 feet to be empty. So the load is loaded in the first 48 foot. This will force them to double stack some pallets in middle of trailer vs them putting them all on the floor to back of door on 53 foot trailer.

 

Usually after a decade of doing it wrong someone may accidentally let the shipper know the other way to load freight for CA. I've been to customers discussing the matter and other customers who don't know of anything more than 6 inches from their dock doors. "What's a California?" You are responsible for getting it reloaded if it's not legal for the destination because you are going to get the fine and the PSP points when you take an illegal load into CA.

 

Most shippers have no idea there were even 48 foot trailers at any time in the past. The 16 year old on a forklift barely knows there are trucks in the world, let alone about trailers that virtually disappeared before he was born.

 

Wow, it's been a long time since 48 foot trailers been on the roads. Hard to believe, it's been that long. That was the trick to load to California when the company I worked for first started getting 53 foot trailers.