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I see, thanks, I understand now, With the overall length laws here rather than your trailer length laws, there is never enough space between cab and trailer to have any over hangs there. Another reason why we haven't had your advantages of big cab sleeping areas.
In fact the big discussion here is the extreme difficulty with coupling suzies (do you call them that, the air and elec. lines from tractor to trailer?) as there is hardly any room for all but the slimmest drivers to couple up with a fridge motor in the way.

 

What was the plan @redneck TT/ ayayron9685 | Redneckmemes | Aaron Tippin · Big Boy Toys

 

a real winner

all we need now is someone to manage to smack a 17’ bridge

 

And chained down over unsupported sections of the track, too.

 

there isn’t a supported section of track

 

True enough with twist, I was thinking about having to fight with the sag by chaining away from the idlers/rollers like that. Never have messed with tracked equipment.

 

No, we just call them what they are; air and electric lines, although we usually refer to the action simply as hooking up, or connecting the glad hands.
In addition, there's usually at least 2 feet of room behind the cab, so unless you're freakishly huge, hooking up to the trailer isn't much of an issue.

 

Looks like plenty of room to pull the stick in and sit the boom down.

 

What I don’t get is even as a newbie flatbedder my 25’ tape measure was right in my drivers side door pocket. Used it ALL the time. Granted I wasn’t often checking height of stuff but the 2 dozen or so times I had something tall on the deck I double checked it. I know this guy is RGN but it seems to me that all open deck work the tape measure is as basic as gloves and a hard hat unless you’re constantly doing something like coils or hauling the same stuff everyday but when the machinery etc varies in size double checking your dimensions seems pretty basic

 

Dead right mate, ever since one of my very early loads which was another truck mounted up which I guessed about 13 feet. Came across an arched bridge where the sign said 10 feet, but the road dipped right down under it. I guessed they measured the bridge at the kerbs and as there was a bloke standing in the road for me on the other slope with his eyes at the exact level of the centre of the arch, who cautiously waved me through, I chanced it. The first thing I did once through was buy a tape at the first place I found.