pulling a 7 car with a single axle

Haul Yugos! What is your weight limit on the trailer?

 

Average car is 4500lbs. 4500x7=31500. Gross weight on a single axle truck is 32000, and trailer given its a tandem is 34000 giving you a total gross of 66000lbs. So as long as your tare weight is under 34500 you will be legal given you can axle out. Load tail heavy and you should be alright. I see pickups pulling 5 car Kauffman trailers if they can get legal I'm sure you can.

 

Yugo's ????? Holy Crap !

You Go - We Go !

 

Yeah buddy!! Those are old!! I thought I might get a rise out of someone!.

 

No kiddin. Did YOU know that Yugos were still mass produced until 2008 in the Czech Republic ?

 

I'm not disagreeing with you but keep in mind that a P/U pulling a Kaufmann 5 only weighs about 16,000 TOTAL, Dorsey's trailer probably weighs that alone, and his old S/A Freightshaker is right at 14,000, so he is around 28-30,000 EMPTY.

As you said, I'm sure he can come in under gross at 66,000 but it will be a balancing act on the drive axle.

Dorsey, can you get any more weight on your steer? I know on my S/A trucks with a short neck trailer, I am leaving 1,500 lbs on the table as my front axle is only 10,500.

But I am so short necked that I can't move my KP forward at all, I am 4" forward of axle centerline.

 

That is true but you lose a lot of gross on the pickup as well. 10 ply tires will only give you 12k on the drive as opposed to 20. How them guys do it I do not know. He can do it but loading the trailer is going to b another story as you said with the balancing act. Better him loading it than me. I can't get my axle weights legal with 2 cars on a 40 ft gooseneck trailer always end up heavy on my drive axle. Then again its got a 6600lb limit and empty its sitting at almost 5200 lol.

 

I know exactly how you feel, just had to break a load this morning, a low floor van and two 24' buses, got it all loaded, legal height and length, then we scaled it here at the yard before leaving.

1680 lbs over on the trailer axle and there was nothing I could do to correct it, pulled the low floor off and just shipped the two buses, #### it any how!

 

You can do it if you haul small to medium cars only. My Miller is pushing 21,000 lbs if I remember correctly & assume yours the same. Thinking without much fuel, was pushing 38,000 truck/trailer empty the day I bought it. My truck weighs just over 16,000 alone. If you try to load full & add a truck/SUV pushing them to the back, you will be over on the trailer as both Miller & Sun Valleys are easy to go over 34,000 fully loaded. Assuming Cottrells are the same too, just have never ran one of those.