Originally Posted by
Rollfast
And one last thing...triple trailer rigs usually head straight to the delivery point or shipping center and unload or scan, relump before returning to the road. Or the truck stop. I've seen local drivers who park their bobtails next to their house or in their driveway too.
But no, you can't get multiple trailers through most city traffic, that's why they make 'truck routes'.
One exception seems to be gasoline tankers. When I was growing up, we had "double bottom" tankers in my state, and after a number of spectacular crashses, they were outlawed. The truckers argued that they needed the flexibility of a double trailer to get in and out of the smaller gas stations. In any event the gas stations all got rebuilt due to leaking underground tanks anyway, and the new ones can accommodate a regular tank truck.