54k coil.....

I have posted on ttr before. I don't know if I saved it.

Running in and out SDI in Butler IN all day long.

 

I’ve never hauled a coil in one, but I do rent one to deliver cars in the city. So much easier to deliver in this than my 80’ car hauler.

 

NO u-Haul truck has ever had a 40K rear. Maybe a 2.5 ton Rockwell at best.

 

Sometimes I still rent them to haul the little park models. Did 2 rounds of these from Elkhart, IN to Denver, CO. 1100 miles at $3.25 per mile. I did around $3500. $400 in fuel and $29.99 to U-Haul I still cleared around $2900 per round. I've been trying their big gas powered U-Haul with Flexfuel. So far I've done really well with those.

 

Hah it’s a small world. I had a towing service once. All my wreckers were out on a job and this call came in. The guy was towing RV’s and he lost a cam position sensor on his 7.3. I was on rotation with the city police and if they called I had to do the tow. So I rented a uhaul and a trailer. I had to do it about twice a year.

 

I believe they haul coils one way and scrap back to the plant for the automotive industry. Pretty smart business model.

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COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION FUEL CONTINUOUS-LOOP RECYCLING NETWORK
September 29, 2016
Aluminum manufacturer Novelis faced an intriguing business challenge: how do you provide a continuous supply of aluminum to support production of a highly-anticipated pickup truck at plants located hundreds of miles away -- all while ensuring safety and sustainability, optimizing capital investment, and providing efficiency, flexibility and visibility into shipments?

The answer turned out to be a closed-loop recycling process that shuttles huge aluminum coils from a recycling plant in Oswego, New York, to a stamping plant in Dearborn, Michigan, and then transporting the aluminum scrap back to Oswego to be melted and incorporated into new coils. The entire process runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – with a truck heading out on the road approximately every 40 minutes.”

 

And if it paid in lobster rolls and Perrier water?

 

This is why it's important to get the coil weight centered in the box. A little too far forward and you are going nowhere fast, and being penalized by the broker for a service failure.

 

It’s also important not to place it too far back.