weight distribution

42500 is gross on a tridem in WA. Can you move the freight yourself? So your running a 7 axle semi.(101K?GVW) 56k-54k on the truck depends on wheelbase and 42.5+54=99kGVW. Under your gross. Like I said slide the 5th wheel it will take the 110 off or move the freight by hand,ect.

 

Depends on permits. I run a triaxle in Ca. also MT,Co,Ut,Wy.

 

It might move a little don't expect much, the 5th wheel slide affects the drive/steer weight shift, the trailer axle slides are what changes your drive/trailer axle weight.

Try it then reweigh and you'll know for sure.

Personally for only 110 lbs over I'd just run it, I used to load so that I was about 250 over on the trailer so that I could carry more fuel and be under gross and never heard a word about it between KC and Edmonton.

Another issue, being stretched out that far are you bridge law legal for your weight?

 

Aren't most tri dems fixed position? Or can some slide? The ones that I see regularly are all fixed position.

 

Move your driver's seat forward.

 

I'm looking at your photo here with that super long load,is that what you haul?I seen a driver today hauled some farm equipment and the load was twice as long.Never have I seen a load that long till today.He made huling those wind towers looks like anormal load.

 

I have driven OD trucks for since 1987. That Pipe truck(Stringer Truck)I have driven since 1992. I now drive a RGN for the most part. There are many types of OD "specific" types of trucks. Long load trucks/trailers depend on what type of load and what kind of terrain. Here is another type of long load truck I drove. It's a Truck flatbed with a Log trailer in tow. This a closer view of a Stringer truck from last year in CA. And now back to our regular schedule.