I was just sitting around thinking, I know a few guys who run dedicated steel coil runs, how come they don't use tri-axle straight trucks? I was wondering if it would be more profitable to have a tri-axle with a small sleeper and a 20 foot alum. flatbed or to run a tractor trailer with a 48ft flatbed from an owner op's point of view. Just me sitting in the truck bored one day lol.
question about flatbeds and steel coils
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Logan76, Jul 3, 2010.
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You ever see a 50000 + lbs coil on a 20 foot trailer?
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heh, I could put 23 ton on my flatbed tri-axle and still be legal beagle. that's why I was just curious. maybe 25 ton would be alot to ask, but you could load 24.5 in the dumps we run and still be on the border line.
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nope its not, It was just my silly head wondering around while waiting to get loaded one day.
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The concentrated loads wouldn't be an issue, Mac's 80k 48' aluminum flat (2 axle) is rated for 80,000 in 4' so it wouldn't be hard to spec a straight truck to do the same.
I always thought if I owned a multi-axle dump it would be neat to build it so you could take the dump bed off and slide a flat on for extra cash when things were slow. Wouldn't be all that difficult.johnday Thanks this. -
I've seen those somewhere. It was empty though. I wondered what kind of crazy setup that was.
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Some companys that do alot of coils use coil hauling trailers like this.
Most of the companys i have worked for just have you use coil racks 4x4's on a flatbed.
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