California tandem law

I know that my lovely home state of California is not very trucker friendly. So with the tandem law in mind I have this question.......Say you pick up a load that is headed to CA. It is a bit on the heavy on the trailer tandems so you slide your tandems to the rear to make it legal. You stop before you hit the state line and slide the tandems to the 40ft mark and proceed on your way. Once inside CA you get pulled into a scale and get popped for being heavy on the tandems. when you picked up the load it was a bit heavy on the trailer tandems and you needed to have your tandems pushed to the rear but now that you are in CA you need to have them pushed forward to the 40ft mark, thus that will make you over on your tandems. I dont get it....CA wants every trailer tandem at the same lenght, but every load is different and that will make every tractor and trailer show different on the scales. isnt the point of having movable tandems, a way of balancing the load? How would it be balanced if every trailer has a limit to where they can be? Is there special "CA" loads that are lightwieght so the driver can run the 40ft rule and still be weight legal? I would not doubt that CA has some kind of law that states that loads can on weight so much.California is nuts in my opinion. I will leave all political reasons out of this post but i will say that Im sure the rest of this great nation laughs at the Golden state for all of its silly groundbreaking laws we have. I know alot of you drivers either will not or dont look forward to driving in this state. This may be a stupid question to many of you out there, but being a total newbie (barely about to start training) this question has made me wonder for some time now. Thanks ahead of time for any input that can be provided!

 

Ok I see. If you know you are going into CA then you should make sure it is loaded in a way that you will be legal with your tandems set a 40ft? I know its a pain to have the load reloaded and if the shipper does not have a scale on site then you will have to go to the nearest CAT scale to see what your weight is with the tandems set a 40ft. I assume if its not legal weight then you have to go back to the shipper to have them reload it?

 

would you have them load it with as much weight as possible on the nose of the trailer, toward the rear or have them split or stagger the load? then if needed you can slide your 5th wheel if you are heavy on the drives? Or am I thinking too much into this?