Spread axle racing trailer help pls

My dad pulls a Nascar Car Hauler lol. Only reason they've ever pulled him in is so they could check out the cars...




American Trucker

 

just because he didnt get a ticket doesnt mean its legal,if race haulers can do it at over 40 feet then i want to be able to do it also

 

That trailer should have dump valves in it. My Pete, which is a former RCR truck, has switches for both the fornt and rear axles.

 

"American-Trucker" is partially right, I'm not sure of the status right now, but, a lot of the NHRA race teams got pulled into port last year coming up for the Pomona race. NHRA tends to run longer trailers than NASCAR does, and they were hammering on them hard for it. As some of the teams were running 57-foot race trailers this put them both overlength on the trailer as well as beyond 40-feet kingpin to first trailer axle. Now, in California's infinite wisdom they would not recognize the race trailers as "specialized trailers" like, say, a lowboy. What does this mean? When the trucks got pulled into ports they shut them down and WOULD NOT issue them a permit to continue to Pomona. Teams running longer-than-legal trailers were forced to call an oversize operation to come up and load the race trailer onto a lowboy to get it to the race. The irony? What was a 57-foot trailer is now on an extendable lowboy that is likely in the neighborhood of some 90-100-feet OAL for the whole combination, and went from around 13-6 tall to at least 15-4 assuming a deck heigh of 22-inches on the lowboy (common height for a lowboy's deck).



(Not my photo).

Now, this all makes it sound like American-Trucker is in the wrong because, in fact, the trailer's weren't legal. However, a big problem with pissing off NHRA hauler's is racer's like V. Gaines who, among other thing's, started Western Distribution (WDTC, you know, the shiny blue Pete's and Kenworth's). When all of this came down they started pushing California to draw up legislation to permit overlength race-trailers in California. And considering they've gotten in and out of Pomona this year, chances are the permits are now available.

But, they're not the only state with laws restricting OAL for non-specialized trailers.

 

there is the key word-permit- as in paper permits,probably what all the teams have

 

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/22392-oversize-trailer-issue-resolved-in-california

 

good enough then,but its still not right for the rest of the truckers having to abide by the 40 rule

 

when you start pulling a $350,000 trailer and bring Millions in Revenue to every state you go to (to race) then you'll be able to as well...





American Trucker

 

Last time I checked race cars were NOT a vital or even neccesary good or service. Same old ######## one guy thinks he is better than everybody else becauase he has money.

 

Boo hoo. You guys aren't happy unless you have something to ##### about. Get over it already. These spread axle haulers drive all over the country each year with no problem. Nascar uses them as do many of the World of Outlaw sprint car teams as well as other types of racing, no problems. I know because I've been involved in racing my entire life and have been around this style of truck for a long time. And the funny thing is oilfieldtrash, you are the only one saying anyone thinks they are better than you. Don't be jealous because a guy gets to drive a shiny new truck with millions of dollars of race equipment in it. I wouldn't want their schedule shiny, fancy truck or not, lol.