Truck hauling paper rolls, rolls over in a truck stop

Id like to think im a careful driver. Pulled food grade for 2+ years and had minimal spill (despite later learning that my company were cheap ##### and the dome lid gaskets were the wrong size and were gonna be prone to leak endlessly) ill haul tankers but I just feel the paper rolls are excessive rollover risk. As safe as I feel it am I wouldn't even trust not rolling it

Maybe im just too green to understand but with my available knowledge and seeing pictures of the >"what can possibly happen" it just doesnt seem logical

Anyone know what these loads even pay hauling them? I know a lot of drivers wont touch em they gotta be at lease somewhat decent load pay

 

A tank trailer and a dry van loaded with paper rolls have a comparably high center of gravity. Using the same caution pulling tanks will keep you upright.

 

I already posted a reply in this thread back when it started a couple of years ago, but again, I regularly hauled paper rolls for Georgia Pacific out of their Monticello, MS mill for about five years, and I never had even a tense moment. It probably helped that I spent 20 years driving buses, where the rule is the same: DON’T MAKE SHARP TURNS AT SPEED! In other words, just as you don’t want to throw around your passengers, you don’t want to throw around your load. And really, that’s true for most loads, isn’t it?

 

it's those 7' tall 5K rolls that will get ya.

4 in front, space, 5 in back.

hauled ALOT of paper my last ten yrs.

doubled stacked shortees were easy

 

I hauled a lot of paper rolls from the mill in Cottonton Alabama and Cedar Springs Georgia to Atlanta .

In a IH cabover with a 350 Cummins and no power steering .

oddly I never flipped one .

a full load of Cheerios cereal or a load of cigarettes was more topheavy Than rolls of paper .

also used to haul rolls of aluminum to a beer can factory and that was kinda tippy .
And rolls of wire that goes inside car tires , those wernt top heavy but one of the rolls would always have come loose inside the trailer and while they were small , only a few
Thousand pounds each , you could feel it bumping around inside the trailer .

I got daylight under the trailer wheels one time according to the driver behind me , on an entrance ramp that had a curve and a hump , and I didn’t see the hump .
Almost flipped a load of cigarettes, which was worth millions even back then .

 

In Western Express days I’ve hauled quite a few paper roll loads between WestRock plants in Connecticut,Virginia,Georgia and the Carolinas. It was always pucker time,as most of those loads were already pre sealed,meaning you couldn’t see how they were loaded in the dry van. And given WE’s reputation of running ratted out equipment at that time (10-15 year old trailers that should’ve been scrapped in half that time) they were eye openers for certain!

 

Back when I drove for Schneider from 2002-2006 we did lots of paper roll loads. I remember many of the paper mills having age limits on the trailers. I think it was no more than 10 years old from the date of manufacture to the current month.

 

Yep westrocks policy is nothing older than 10 years, no damage or oos whatsoever and must be mint condition