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But how many are willing to pay for it, not many. The 53' trailers will become more common just like the 48' did and the pay rate will be the same as a 40'. Don't believe me, just look at what rates are now. Everyone wants a 48 but the rate is for a 38! Besides I never understood the point in having 5' hanging off the back that is useless unless you haul all light stuff, and then its just to benefit the shipper, who isn't paying any more or very little extra. Last I checked there is a price difference between a 48 and 53.

Sorry but I watched all this happen when everyone got sucked into the 48x102 era from the 45x96.

Nope just a spread axle. The third axle is setting in the garage waiting to be put on.

 

LoL you may be right, to me, you're trailer is your most important tool, all your truck does is pull it, if you have a idea but don't have the right trailer you may as well forget it, I love having a 53', load it from front to back, if I hauled steel I'd set myself up with a 45' fastrak, if I hauled Insolation I'd set up with a 53' Flat, if I hauled grain carts I'd pull a rgn, my extra 5' pays my trailer payment every month, a lot of the stuff I pull out of Ohio is a couple machines and a bunch of parts orders, 5' has been the difference between 5 or 6 stops and 1000 Miles and 1200, so to me the 53' works just fine, plus you don't add on to a rate the "53' trailer charge"

 

I used to do LTL's with a 45' covered wagon, now they are done by a bunch of idiots as stop offs.

Now if you had a 53' with the spread set all the way back that might be worth something, or atleast back to the 51' mark.

 

I went from a 53' to a 48' step and lost almost 2K lbs. The difference in weight made more of a difference in freight than having the extra 5' for me.
So everyone's set up is little different. Sometimes the smaller trailer is an advantage. Sometimes I wish I had a constago but that's additional weight too.

 

It's all your freight and what kinda wagon it needs

 

The 53' flat I was looking at (revolution Hybrid) had a sliding rear axle, which would go all the back to about the 51' mark. I'm still debating on what to do tho. i can just go back to renting the 48" Revolution 52 and not worry about it either. Which is what I'm leaning more towards at this point.

 

Buy, don't rent. Then you can add all the boxes, etc that you want.

 

The SD I have is already pre-drilled for boxes so that's not an issue. The problem is the Revolution Allumnium trailers require some special made brackets that Fontaine charges $300 for per side. You can put boxes on the rental trailers, just costly on the flatbed. I already have 2 60" boxes at home.

 

Here's the bed plates I have on going to GE Wind Energy in Pensacola tomorrow. They are already wrapped in plastic and they just want tarps to keep it from ripping and coming off. Most the guys do these once a week and all have the mesh tarps. I wasn't that lucky lol

 

Throwin those tarps more and more SHC!