Who knows the Bridge Law....or thinks they do?

Thanks Ronin.

 

Sliding your tandems all the way forward,

may violate the bridge laws !!!

Check before doing that !!!

I believe there is a minimum distance between #2 and #5 axle........

 

yeah, it seems like everyone (at least most) are putting the two laws together and that's where the confusion is coming from. there are two separate laws, dealing with two separate lengths. king ping rule which is states the furthest distance your last axle on your trailer can be from your king pin.. (pretty sure it has to do with states no wanting trucks destroying curbs and knocking down light poles... and then the bridge law, which states the maximum amount of weight your vehicle can carry, and that weight is determined by the distance between your axles. i know in Florida there's inner and outer bridge.. if you have a small outer bridge (trailer axles slide all the way forward) you can't gross 80K, you're limited to 75k i believe.. there's a chart..

 

Federal Bridge Law

http://www.ntda.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=NiMFqXy27gw%3D&tabid=115

 

I think we're safe on the close-together style of running - looking at 35 feet between axles... which is about what you get with a 40 foot kingpin to second trailer axle center... the load is 67k.... max load on normal trucks is 68 k.

It's hard as all hell to have a maxed loaded truck (80K) scale for CA...

 

spread axle configs can do it easily.. they're allowed 20k per axle.. well as long as it's a 10'2" config.. when i had my deck and my T2000, i never worried about the bridge law.. never really scaled either.. i'd read the package they were loading, do some math, throw in 2k lbs for pallets and blockage.. jumped in my truck and look at the air guage, as long as it was under 61psi with the brakes release i knew the drives were under 34k. and then i just rolled.. never had an issue with scales..

 

it's almost as if they set this stuff up to not allow you to be 100% compliant


It's all about ways to make money for the state.

 

Why am I not finding these specs in the 2013 Rand McNally Motor Carrier's Atlas???

 

Page A16 State/Provincial Weight and Size Limit charts, its all there just not laid out near as nice as that. I would print that off and keep a copy with you, thats what I did. Most of our trailers have a pin hole that is red or white painted for the Cali legal spot on the trailer and they also have red tape on the side to mark the 40' spot. The 48' and 45' I'm not sure one but won't be hard to make those legal.

 

I don't know what's wrong with me. Which column should I be looking at on A16?