Long Wheel base question

i donno about the polar bears but down here in the Free States we can do as we please. You'll see allot of VERY long 300+" WB trucks out west



American Trucker

 

Get a job you bum.

 

Only restrictions you have in the US is overall length. I know California and Florida have restrictions on 300" trucks with a 53' van as we used to have to slide the 5th wheel all the way forward when going across the FL scales when I ran with my uncle. Not sure about others but I do know Western Canada restricts you to a 234" wheelbase I believe w/o a permit but they also don't recognize a 10'1" spread either.

 

244 on the tractor, I went up there with a spread axle and they didn't say a word.

 

You can go anywhere in the US, mine is 285", no problem and a great reason to not go to Canada. I think western Canada is limited to around 250. Someone will post the exact rule.

There is no truck length limit on interstates, just trailer length.

 

Nice equal playing field between the US and Canada! We gotta have slow short cheet to go up there.

 

These days you can go everywhere in Canada but Newfoundland and another small province in the northeast. Saskatchewan will give you a permit, but overall length can't be more than 65', good luck with that 40' trailer. The Frenchies are supposedly not to happy about over 244", but there is a permit available. Everything west of SK is good to go with a cheap permit for over 244" but your trailer kingpin to center of axles must be under a certain length. Ontario is good to go if it's a 48' trailer. Thankfully Landstar has a cheat sheet for all this stuff. Big thing with spread axles out west is they only give you 10k pounds per axle, so the load must be light.
In the US, you can go anywhere with a 262, even Cali, though I'm not sure why you'd want to. My Star is 265.

 

Mines 300" No problems whatsoever in the states. Length/bridge laws come into effect in California, Florida and Tennesse with 53 foot trailers. I know Ca requires 41' from Kingpin to the center of the rear axle. I don't know what Fl and Tn require. I don't pull a 53' trailer. I know overall length comes into play on secondary roads in California. But none of the other states I could say what they require.

Canada is 244" in the western provinces and Ontario is 244" for permit loads.