over length

Yeah because according to the professional driver's seating area talk, Tennessee gives you the death penalty for overdue 41' kingpin violations.

 

I think I slept through that part of class in driving school.......I was a tanker yanker, so I didn't have to deal with sliding the tandems, and then I pulled hopper bottoms, so I didn't mess with the sliding tandems......and only on occasion a 5th wheel slide. What is the deal on 41" feet from kingpin to center of rear tandems? What is the purpose of that rule?

 

virginia is another state that you have to make sure your tandems are not to far back

 

My guess it has to do with the narrow winding secondary roads you'll find in Virginia and Tennessee, especially in the Smoky and Blue Ridge mountain areas.

 

just got this ticket in FL .. scaled load to be leagle 12k/34k/34k. and was too long. been driveing for 12 years though the only state i had to worrie about being to long in was CA

 

In Florida sometimes they enforce it sometimes they don't, depends on the mood of the dot man I guess..

 

And btw you're allowed 44k on tandems in florida...

 

ya i just marked the hole i was leagle 12/34/34 and moved it full forward.. wil move back to that hole at the rest area in AL