This will get your trailer rejected at international paper

Man....they took that to a new level. Most places I've gone to get roll stock, they just look at the manufacture date of the trailer to see if it's older than 10 years. Some don't even care. I never understood why they were so anal about trailers. By the time you get to International Paper, you’ve hauled many heavy loads, perhaps heavier than what you may get there. Unless it was completely falling apart then I understand.

 

Guess the question is, what happened to the load after the refusal?

 

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that location had a trailer collapse, injuring a worker. Then a few months later it happened again, this time with a fatality. Would have been about 2012.

 

Because even a small water leak or a dirt cloud spoiling the paper can cost them tens of thousands. Those big paper rolls are expensive.

 

It doesn't look like just a bent crossmember in the second picture.
It looks like there is also a hole in the floor.

 

I've never had them look under trailer, as long as there were no holes anywhere (Roof, walls, or floor, and the doors latched tight).