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Originally Posted by specialkay
If you can't slide the 5th wheel ahead because the trailer hits the rear frame of the truck it's hard to load the front axle. The shorter the upper deck the less clearance you have between the truck frame and the drop. I'm with G-Man on the 11' upper.
I have 35,000 lbs in my dry van trailer and the fifth wheel is in the perfect position for weight distribution. I measured the distance from the king pin to the support legs of the trailer and it's ... 8 feet almost exactly. The problem is for some reason the king pin is really far from the front of this dry van trailer - close to 36 inches. 8 + 3 = 11 feet. Now an 11' deck makes sense
but that leaves only 42 feet to move that expensive stepdeck freight on the 53' trailer