alberta and spreads

Western Canada is not picky about stuff Ontario is the shield ie hard ground Alberta is soft ground the roads buckle during the winter and stretch during the summer the ban is in place to alleviate yearly repair cost Ontario isn’t repairing roads on a yearly basis due to being on rock. I am born and raised in Ontario and have been living in Alberta for 7 years now not having full weight spreads really helps to save the roads here. Most guys will buy a tridem and lift the middle axle by ratchet straps when in the states it’s cheaper to invest in a dump valve for those bags than to purchase a lift kit.

 

This is painful and hilarious to read.

You guys are brutally stupid. Like this is comical.

I have a tridem centre lift flatbed. I lift the centre axle when I run south, and drop it when I'm in western Canada. I do this because the 10'1 spread as you mush heads know it isn't legal in Western Canada.

So for you guys who can't understand rules.

No "10'1" in western canada. We have a 'SPREAD AXLE LAW' but it is not the '10 FOOT 1 INCH SPREAD LAW' you knuckle heads use down south.

Like Jesus, Mary and Joseph. How many time do you gotta be told no we don't recognize the 10'1 before you learn.

LEGEND:

10'1 LAW = 40,000lbs on axle spreads 10 feet 1 inch apart (generally)

Spread Axle law= axles spread beyond a certain distance are rated as single axles and not axle groups and limited to the tire/axle rating.


In review.

No 10'1 in western canada,
No 10'1 in western canada,
No 10'1 in western canada,

You wanna run it at weight? You'll get shut down. Can you run it empty? Sure. Without a lift axle.

 

I just got stopped at the weigh station on the Canadian side of Blaine, WA. I was overweight on my split axle, as I didn't know anything about their split axle rules. I don't know about Alberta or any other provinces, but in British Columbia it's 10,000 lbs per axle (20,000 lbs) on a split axle according to them.
They did not give me a ticket, they said because it's my first time and I didn't know, I had two choices, I can go back to the USA, or I can stay in their parking lot, have a forklift come and unload some of the freight, get to a legal weight, then deliver some of the load, and come back for the rest later, and that I could leave the rest of the freight in their parking lot.
I walked down to the Border, and I talked to the USA, and they said I would have to file customs paperwork, to reimport the load back into the USA.
A big cluster "F"!
I found a solution, but I'm not going to post it here.

 

Yes, proceed down the road when they leave at 4:00 PM

 

Manitoba used to make the guys chain one axle up in order to proceed 20 years ago . I’m not sure if they still do.