Upper Deck Length for a Step

Get the spring removable mud flaps. Then see how far forward you can have your fifth wheel. You could gain 6"-10" if you only had to worry about the tires hitting.

 

This doesn't make sense to me. With an 8' top deck, you will have such a small swing that your 5th wheel will need to be all the way back in order to keep your mud flaps (and maybe the frame) from hitting the frame of the trailer (at the drop). With the 5th wheel that far back, the trailer weight will be taking weight OFF your steers not putting weight on them like Doonan is saying....could be a problem in winter.

Gonna be lite on the steers and might push through corners into the guard rail in the winter.

 

Eliminate the mudflaps and install fenders :smt115

 

didn't realize we were talking about a fair weather driver with a show truck.

Plus the truck would still be light on the steers.

 

I think wizard misunderstood Doonans reasoning for moving fifth wheel. 8/40 trailers end up being heavy in the spread on large footprint heavy loads. When I pulled a 8/40 Fontaine, it had outside rails so it wasn't as drastic, and 45,000 would gross out at 80,000. You can see how tight it was here. If that was a Doonan or any other trailer with inboard frame rails at the neck, my mudflap light bars would be disfigured.

 

I never considered black plastic to be of "show quality".

 

I must have missed something. Regardless..... plastic, steel, chrome, stainless...whatever. I don't think I'd like to put chains under those goofy looking fenders I don't care what they are made of. I'd have no use for them. They are for show IMO.

 

Some of us have no use for chains

 

Yep. Figured as much.