How to drive legal weight for California

That's why I have a 50 foot steel tape. Eyeball it where the kingpin is, clamp it to the trailer, then stretch it out to wherever the max kingpin to center of rear axle/center of tandems is. A piece of duct tape to mark the spot when sliding tandems helps a lot.

 

"50 foot steel tape." +1 (I think mine was 75 feet.) I just put it on the ground, put one end even with the kingpin, paced off 40 feet, and marked the trailer with tape. I went into CA so often that measuring became a habit. Indiana used to be 42 feet and one time I had to measure for that.

 

What kind of trailer are you pulling?

 

Why doesn't the threat start at page 5 right away?

Best advise on the thread.

 

Because it takes 5 pages and a bunch of truckers to figure out what's the bridge law in California. Everybody needs to chip in

 

But it's not the bridge law but the kingpin law.

 

12k max on steers is in accurate unless you are 34and 34.