Is it legal to pull a tri axle 53' dry van with a single axle tractor unit? This would be for Canada.
My company has never tried this before so I'm just a little skeptical about doing it. I've definitely never seen anyone else do it.
Weight wise I'd be fine, about 19630 kg in the trailer. I'd likely need to slide the trailer axles but I'd still be legal.
Single axle tractor with tri axel trailer
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by lulzzors, Feb 24, 2014.
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I don't think I've ever seen a single axle tractor in Canada. Even the yard dogs have twin screws. Should make for interesting conversations.
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Well we have 3 of them, we only have 1 tandem and it use to pull this tri axle trailer across Canada weekly but it's doing another trip right now.
We just don't haul enough weight to justify a tandem, well yet, they're getting tandem trailers now for us to use so we're ending up overweight sometimes with the single axle (the tandems don't slide on the trailer). -
I assume by "single axle tractor" you mean single drive axle? Not illegal unless you exceed axle weight.
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He is talking about a single screw tractor pulling a three nine foot spreed trailer. I've seen lots of them over the years, just have the weight distributed correctly. 18K each I believe.
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Sounds like a European setup.
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I was looking into it today and I can't do it, well I shouldn't say I can't do it but I shouldn't do it.
The truck is registered for 23,800 kg but the truck alone weights 9,778 kg, no idea what the trailer weighs but I'm already overweight with just the truck and product.
I mentioned it today so they're either going to go and increase the weight that the truck is registered for, or just wait until next week or this weekend and I'll use our tandem volvo 780
And yes, this truck is single drive axle. It's a peterbilt 382. -
Back in the 70's there were a lot of single axle Chevy gas jobs running between Ohio and Chicago pulling 3 axle trailers. Owned 4 of them myself. And then there was Milton Baker King of The Chevrolets . At one time he had 17 Chevys leased to B&P. Sunday night on the Ohio Turnpike you could see us heading west to Chicago. We are not talking hot shots either we pulled 60K- 80K payload on a regular basis. Once in a while 100K+.
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picture fromhankstruckforum.com
Polyform of Granby Quebec, thanks Pascal Followed by its twin sister and same trailer.
they use single axle trucks to transport matrasses
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