Improve 5th wheel capacity
Here is one for you. Our current rig has 2 @ 7,000# Dexter axles. If we go to 8,000# axles, will that legally improve our 5th wheel weight capacity? We are in the throws of the great 5th wheel v...
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Bumpyroad wrote:
when I registered my U Haul type trailer, they asked me what weight I wanted to use. I think I had a choice of 3,000, 5,000, and 10,000. I asked why not just go to 10,000 and was told I would have many more hoops to jump through so I stopped at 5,000. numbers are guesses from memory.
bumpy
As with essentially all jurisdictions, all they care about is licencing fees for small and moderate trailers, no proof and no liability on actual capacity. Truck capacity trailers become another issue, and should be kept as another issue and not confused with any but the extremes of the RV class as is so commonly done.
