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You may want to call it legal but since your flatbed is bolted to the frame the trucks becomes primarily a flatbed that can tow a small trailer as a secondary application so it needs to be registered as a three axle flatbed. In the pictures your flatbed looks like it is to low to allow full...

The information I was given was that the bed had to be connected using the semi fifth wheel. Mid the top of their head the dot guys named a half dozen or so trucks owned by the big rock and sand companies that use the fifth wheel to attach a removable dump bed. The added weight of the fifth...

federal requirement to have registration reflect the correct type of vehicle, flatbed, tractor, etc Look up the European swap body concepts. This is a method to use one power pack to move several body modules.

The problem with your design is each time you remove the bed and put the fifth wheel back on, or the reverse you have to do a vin verification and have the title and registration changed. By bolting the bed down you have permanently modified the truck. The bed on every truck would be...

If you read the whole table that is the minimum based on federal title 49. The states can and do have additional requirements. The other problem is I did not see a date on the chart. I can having the intermediate marker light on 2 axle dump trucks in the early 80's, the trucks were from the...

What is you citation on that? If the rule exists it is not what is being done or enforced in Southern California.

What about the amber lights at the front and forward side on the bed?

Talked to the dot guys and your design requires reclassification because the fifth wheel is removed and the bed is bolted. To be exempt from reclassification the fifth wheel needs to stay on the truck and the bed needs to be attached with the king pin and at least two other pins, no bolts...

Did you remove the fifth wheel?

Interesting question. The regulations apply to commercial vehicles. If you are not operating commercially you are not required to update the vehicle. The flatbed is either the load, removable, or part of the vehicle, bolted. Since you converted the vehicle you may be required to comply...

A truetrac is not a locker, it is a limited slip differential. It is still a lot better than an open differential. One of my navy trucks has Detroit lockers in each of the rear axles and the other one has an air locker.

If you are having to adjust your brakes every 500 miles there is something wrong, really wrong.