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Yeah he was a little ticked and we moved his fifth wheel back as far as we could without getting the front axle too light. I told him no to be too put out though, I have a mack vision with 63" mid-roof, 222"wb and the same 39" dump with an empty weight of 28000ish. His truck and that trailer empty was 26000ish. I was running 80K and he was at 78K, but we both still had on 26ish ton.

 

What are coils? Maybe I missed that, IM not sure...lol.

As far as hauling different products including ones that can damage the trailer...what about getting a rubber lining installed? I used to work for a coal power plant during the summer a few years back (communit involvement thing, something like that, lol) and they hauled the coal in via truck. I thought some of them had rubber lining. We also had a truck that was hauling ash out and he was talking about that trailer being his ash trailer because the ash ate the metal or something. I figure a rubber lining would add to the cost, but wouldn't it also increase the types of loads one can carry?

 

That rubber lining you mention is not rubber it's a type of very slick plastic, which you only put in a dump when you haul the same products over and over that the trailer needs protection from. Most dumps are not lined because it stops the product from sliding out of the trailer and can cause the trailer to lay over. Liners never last because the weight of the product that is dumped on them eventually over time deforms the liner and the product won't slide out. Water stands under the liner causing more corrosion than if the product was just loaded on bare metal. It's impossible to get all the product dust that gets trapped under the liners.
I've hauled ash along with about every other product you can think of including pasteurized human waste and I've never put a liner other than a sheet of plastic that slid out with the product such as as a HAZ Waste load or clay that I didn't want frozen to the bed.

Steel coils are wire that has been formed on a spooler into a circle of sorts, hence the name coil. It looks like rope that has been coiled into a circle but much more dangerous.