Load is overweight

Why didn't you just ask a few drivers at that truckstop for help?Your load is so easy to make legal and not one DOT would fine you for being too long.I think Milwaukee has a bypass.

 

Can someone slide this for me ?

 

I find it funny that you stay around instead of driving 50 miles to get out of the storms path when you were under 80k. I will grant you that the 2016 atlas IS WRONG on the kingpin setting and many have already given you the correct answer. But with your experience I can see how that would lead you to believe you couldn't make weight by sliding your tandems more. I hope you have learned not to trust the atlas at least.

I do wish you the best sir. We have all made mistakes and all we can do is learn from them. If you learned something then in the future you may have more success.

 

I try to stay as close as possible to 11-6-6.

 

You by chance dont have a 2016 truckers atlas do you?Maybe you or somebody can tell us what it says concerning the states the op has to go thru.

 

In the 2016 atlas it says "trailers require no more than 41 feet from kingpin to rear most axle" for Wisconsin. It should be 43 feet.

 

All the yrs I drove OTR I never worried about any laws concerning the length just worried about it being legal.I never touched my fifthwheel.

 

Mine's older. That's what it says for non STAA in mine. STAA says 43'.

 

Did Op say how many feet his trailer is after moving tandems?

 

All that snow should be gone buy the time he gets to the North Platte scales, Ft.Morgan should be OK there also, they give up to 36,000 on tandems and you would think alot of snow would fall off even by Ft. Morgan.