i have not seen that ticket issued yet.

 

I agree that it's strange, but that's California for you. I mean, all trailers off-track. But they're dead-serious about the 40-foot maximum for 53's. I don't think any other state is. I recall that Utah used to have a 40 (?) 42 (?) foot maximum, measured to the center of the tandem. Indiana used to have (may still have?) a 42-foot maximum; don't recall how they measured it or if they even bothered.

I remember a Schneider pulled in at the Mt. Shasta POE (I-5, northern CA). Tandem all the way back on a 53. I'd guess they wouldn't let the driver proceed until he was legal on his KP AND axles. Could have been a major headache.

I've been of the road for a few years, so I don't know what my former carrier is doing to comply with anti-idling regs. I don't think they're buying APU's.

 

I just found this KP setting chart

It's the first Google result, so I don't know if it's current.

 

Glad you got it legal for the next driver. Just last week, one of the company drivers picked up a load in Sacramento, dropped it in the Orland yard and left. He didn't scale it at the 49er or Pilot in Dunnigan. Instead, he scaled it in Corning and then found out it was 80,600. Dispatch told him to drop it back in Orland. 3 days later the next driver is told to take it to the receiver and be ontime, but he finds the scale receipt from the previous driver. I told him to go scale it in Corning just in case the other driver had a heavier tractor. I guess it was still overweight. He drops it back in the Orland yd. The next day, I come back thru the yard and another driver is taking it back to the shipper to rework it. All of this could have been prevented had the first driver done his job right the first time instead of assuming it was right. California scales are not to be messed with on kingpin to axle length. They have a pad on the other side of the scale that measures this and will put you in the parking lot in a hurry if it's wrong.

 

i've gone through being one hole over. in most cases, they won't be able to spot it when the tandems are only one hole overboard. i won't gamble on being more than one hole over on the kingpin setting.