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[Matthew Reid]

Originally Posted by George McKenzie

We had a 500 gallon fuel tank on a single axel trailer and were told to get a tandem trailer .I'll do some checking on this . I know we never see them any more on the road . To haul a carrier with duals it would be over width or you would have to put the carrier above the wheels .With tires big enough to carry the weight it would be a pretty unstable load .

Ya those figures were right off the Alberta Motor Vehicles Website in the regulations.

And the question is who told you. Police certainly do not always know the regs. We used to get flak for pulling the M101CDN Trailer behined the holiday trailer (Caravan for our brit friends) The Holiday trailer was NOT a 5th wheel but no where in the regs did it say the primary trailer had to be a 5 wheel. Now the regs have changed and they specifically state that the primary trailer must be a 5th wheel.

Alberta and Sask are the only provinces in the Country I belive that will let non Comercial vehicles double up trailers.

I think they may have asked you to get a tandem axel trailer cause you may have been over weight when the road bans are inplace in the spring.


Matthew