Real world weights on 53 flats?

I pull several different brands of 53' flats and run between 29k (all aluminum) and 32.5k (combo) with my Pete. Don't carry tarps, but have chains. A few of our combos have boxes.

 

What do you haul you don't need tarps ?

 

You must have some light petes, I weigh in at over 32k full of fuel with a 48' all aluminum, steel tarps, 3 coil racks, dunnage, and chains. Still trying to figure out what the previous owner used the 300lbs of angle iron for though that I havn't taken out.

And wideglide13 concrete block, drill pipe, plastic pipe, lumber, etc, etc, etc. Not everything has to be tarped in the wonderful world of flatbedding.

 

How about 37.5K but I do carry to much stuff including ramps, tarps, coil racks, dunnage, chains, moving blankets, straps, ect.

 

Right around 20k, maybe a bit less.

 

Steel; mesh, plate, rails and poles.

 

30,000 on the nose with my 63" bunk long nose pete and 48' benson all aluminum flat full of fuel im now 34,000 and some change with my 53' combo utility step deck both had aluminum rims both had boxes and a set of lumber tarps. trucks carries 8 20ft 3/8" chains and 8 snap binders