opinions on what is the best flatbed trailer out there?

Like to see a reitnour hold up like that....

Another daycab sissy I see... You and jfaulk will be really good friends....

 

I have a big bed in a nice warm house with a beautiful young woman in it.



I see no reason to sleep some place else.

 

The dog house sucks, therefore I have a truck, with a bed...lol

I also like to have options...

 

Well that was Western Trailers issue. Get a lighter weight tractor and stop making us weaken the trailers to make up for it.

My point exactly! What's the point of working to pay for a house and never sleep in it. I'm afraid if someone sees me sleeping in a truck they might label me a "truckdriver". LOL

 

Doesn't that 8'2" spread screw you weight wise? I believe your only allowed like 38k on a short spread correct, unless you have a permit? I'm just curious on how your permits work out being so short overall and close axle spacing. We just had 5' added to a trailer so it was easier to permit which made it like 50'1"

 

Me too.. and an electric blanket

 

Yes in a bridge law state I can only do 38k on the trailer but Pa. is not that way. I get 25k per axle for the drives and the trailer and 12 on the front for 112k, axle spacing does not matter. I dont leave Pa. very often and never with a permit now that Mingo Junction shut down. If I ever would need to sell that trailer it will probably wont be worth much.

 

Well, now jfaulk can pick on someone else for having a smaller trailer than me...

 

I put a couple more pics in the photo shack under heavy haul. It's of the twin to the roll I put on here. From the front of the truck this time.

 

When Sky-Traks were being built in Port Washington, WI they were my primary outbound load.

Often the traffic manager would call for a truck and I'd load one machine weighing 26K or so... that would ship at a truckload rate. Then I could put on a mini...two skid steers, another smaller Sky-Trak or a mini-excavator or two. All in all I'd have 46 to 48K on the deck paying around $3.20 per mile or a little more... this was when fuel was $1.20 per mile.

We also hauled out of Georgia Pacific in Lower Alabama... 55' engineered trusses on a 48' trailer. Load weights were usually about 47K and I usually ran back home ran up to Wisconsin/illinois/Minnesota... most were paying around $2.20 per mile to the truck.... again with $1.20 fuel.

There was another cheap freight carrier in at GP but they had a self-imposed 45K weight limit so any Mercer truck that could haul the weight got the good paying freight.

The only way I ran California back in the early 00's was too put a few LTL's together.... again with a light truck I could manage to put $4,000.00 on the deck so the sting of $1.00 freight heading back east was a little easier to handle.

When doing LTL's a low empty weight was always my friend.