End dumps that haul steel coils

Oh I'd watch, unless I was the guy that paid the 56k for a new dump about to get crushed.

 

Guess you don't need chains............

 

Looks like a CarFax add: For Sale, used flatbed with conestoga. New tarps and bulkhead. That's the only way I could get the 16k on the steering my permit calls for.

He couldn't have been moving very fast for the sleeper to be able to stop it.

Wouldn't you like to have been listening in on the phone call that guy had to make?

 

nice pic. Anyway, I was half-joking. I hauled spools of aluminum cable that were about 4 feet in diameter, unsecured, in a dry van, ....laying on their side, and single stacked. I was more comfortable with that than the darn roll paper loads.

 

I have a freind who drives van trailer otr, he always talks about those loads of paper rolls, are they big rolls? anyone have pics?

 

paper rolls come in different sizes hauled some that were only about a foot tall laying on there side and others that 96 inches wide and about 6 inches shorter than the inside of the trailer

 

I was always 31K empty when I pulled a flatbed...and that was with a "lightweight" Freightliner. I'm 29.5K with an end dump behind my Mack. Company Freightliners (even the sleeper trucks) are 1 to 1.5 tons lighter.

I've loaded and unloaded coils where they use a fork truck with a big donkey d#$% (for lack of a better term) to unload. These type of places can only load or unload flatbeds, and HAVE to have the coils loaded suicide. If BOTH the shipper AND the receiver use an overhead crane, then I see no reason at all why an end dump COULDN'T be used. 50,000+ pounds of rock gets dropped in 'em all the time...and some of the larger rip-rap doesn't take up a lot of floor space. If you have a liner in the trailer, you'd need to use friction pads beneath your coil racks to help keep 'em in place.

Remember, that trailer box is strong enough to support the entire weight of the load while being supported by only the hoist at the nose and the hinge at the rear of the bed while dumping. I wouldn't have any concerns at all about putting a coil in a dump trailer...even a frameless....other than securing them, of course.

One other thought, if you have a 2-way gate in the rear, you can swing it open and bump a dock as well. Pull the bows and swing 'em out of the way so the fork lift can get in and out...and there's no reason you can't haul dry-box freight, too....you just have to pay attention to wall height. Most dumps are only going to have 5' sides (give or take a little)....although there are some that have higher walls.

I doubt there's any difference in deck height.

...and most dumps have ladders/steps on them in order to provide access to the inside of the trailer for load leveling/clean-out purposes...no extra ladders needed.

 

i like that coil trailer, i haven't ever seen one like that. cool picture.

 

That one is a ThruWay. The one we have is a Wabash.

 

thats awesome