You can find useful info on this topic in the following research paper:
Magdy Samaan, Khaled Sennah, and John B. Kennedy, "Positioning of bearings for curved continuous spread-box girder bridges", Can. J. Civ. Eng. 29: 641–652 (2002)
thanks indeed Aria Tsam. In some of the FHWA Design examples, the orientation of bearings is selected such that their axis intersect the basic bearing.