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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M700man" data-source="post: 2830" data-attributes="member: 365"><p>Jim, I'll run it down for you. It's NOT the tires, it is the style of wheel/axle. Open center rim. Lose a lug bolt or two, fail to torque them evenly/properly and you have a runaway missile. I've seen those things come off and rip a PATH out the back end of a mobile home. Yes, the law is just for US. Here's the deal. When mobile homes first became popular, the axles were left under the house when it was delivered. Sometime in the early 80's, the cost of new axles started to rise. The axle refurbisher was born. They would go around to all of the mobile home sales lots(still do) and pay a small sum for axles and wheels. Upon arrival at their facilities, they cleaned,greased and replaced needed parts, inspected wheels and tires. They then sold them back to the MH manufacturers to be used again. They had low miles on them so this was a viable solution. However, folks like myself and others still bought them to build trailers out of. Equipment trailer manufacturers didn't like this either as it put too many people in the business of building trailers without having to have a wholesale connection for axles. So, only one thing to do - get the politicians and the DOT to outlaw them for use as equipment trailer axles. THAT is why they are illegal. Now, I can only speak for GA, but I suspect it is pretty much universal. May not be in FLA. How do they haul house trailers on them, you ask? Like I said in my previous post, they are NOT outlawed for use under MH's, just on equipment trailers. It was all done by the manufacturers so that the number of new axles they had to purchase was greatly reduced. That's the bottom line. Thanks, John</p></blockquote><p></p>

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