Hello guys, I'm back 13 months later with the architect telling us he'll be done in a couple of months, so I wanted to run by you the updated figures for the driveway and area around the house and ask the same question as before: If a semi driving down the driveway (at 18% slope on stabilized gravel) and turning to the right towards the front door would have enough space to make that turn and to back up into the paver area by the garage and drive back up the driveway. I'm thinking specifically of those 40' ocean container trucks (for our stuff) once the house is built, and during construction those import fill trucks that hold something like 20 cubic yards of fill - 10 cubic yard in the bin attached to the cab and a second bin towed behind it, and of course the commercial semis that some of you guys drive. If you need any further dimensions, let me know. Thanks so much - I really appreciate it!
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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by MikeHasQuestions, Dec 3, 2020.
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Are you in califorina, or at least on the west coast? That’s about the only place they run that style of dump truck, called a transfer dump. They will leave the trailer on the road in a flat spot, dump the box on the truck, then go back to the trailer and slide the box on the trailer into the box on the truck to dump it.Rideandrepair and MACK E-6 Thank this.
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Yes. Unless you place the trailer just right as you back around the corner, it would take some maneuvering to be able to get lined to get back into the drive. Rounding off that corner of the drive and along the front of the house would help tremendously. Especially with the house being so close and constraining the ability let your overhang go over the inside edge of maneuvering area.
Here's an example, we get 80' of Carhauler out of there, but only because we can back our rear overhang over the curb near the street.
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Current set up is way easier lol. Come from the bottom of pic and back in easy cheesy.
Till we built the house we’re in now I used to sight side into this drive off the gravel road. 275wb long hood Pete with a 50ft tandam axle Merritt cow trailer. It was tight and you had to try and ditch it but it would go. Had to really watch the steer axle if you ever got it off the road when it was wet it was over. I wouldn’t attempt to put my 53ft spread in there
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