NORTH DAKOTA - Explain spread axels to em

Ur able to work down there as a Canadian?

 

Nice truck!

It doesn't look like you have spread axles, it looks like you have closed tridems on your drives and your trailer.

 

I'm in ND, I spent 1.5 hours with the permit office to try to figure this out. If an axle is 40+ inches away from another axle it is considered 2 axles, Max benefit is a grouping of 3 axles for a total weight on the 3 axles being 48,000lbs. On a trailer, if you add a 4th axle between 40" and 8', you will not gain any weight capacity. If that 4th axle is 8+ feet away from the grouping, you can now carry 48,000 + 20,000 more because of the extra axle.

The trick is finding a trailer that has 4 axles and under 53'. For what we haul, it would be impossible to have a stinger.

We were ticketed for not having an overweight permit. We have 7 axle rig, 1+3+3 (steer, single tag & 2 drives, 3 trailer) i can legally have 12, 45, 48 on that setup. I was weighed at 12, 42, 51. The load was non-divisable and i am unable to transfer the weight forward anymore. I am looking to switch the trailer from a hydraulic detach lowboy to a sliding axle as we haul farm machinery. If i had a sliding axle that consisted of 4 axles with a 8' spread between one grouping, I could legally haul 12,45,34,34. Has anyone seen a trailer like this? Im assuming 1 or 2 axles would need to lift and probably be steerable. Anything?