Hi guys, need to pick your experienced minds.
If you were to push the 5th wheel as close forward to the cab as possible and you had a skelly, with a 40ft box on loaded to 44 tons, would this make you overweight on the front axle?
Regards
Aaron
AaronR:
Hi guys, need to pick your experienced minds.If you were to push the 5th wheel as close forward to the cab as possible and you had a skelly, with a 40ft box on loaded to 44 tons, would this make you overweight on the front axle?
Regards
Aaron
POSSIBLY - there are no easy answers.
Also, you’ve got to watch the legs on the lights too, most skelly’s are designed to sit quite far back.
You could possibly fit super singles on front, and even mid-steer, and uprate the front axle/s to reduce the risk - this is why you see so many lorries with front mounted cranes on super singles.
The other thing you have to be careful of with sliding the 5th wheel too far forward is the rear of the chassis touching the trailer when the unit is at a downward angle/going over humpback bridge etc.