load limits

That's what I thought yet you see it everyday and they can't all be MT. I wonder what the ticket costs for that and what it will cost to have a fork lift or crane come out after DOT makes you fix it?

 

i paid $1100 for a guy to come out with a forklift. a tonka toy. 2 hours because he couldn't even lift the load back on the top deck. so i could take it back to shipper and get it fixed RIGHT. the way i asked for in the first place. and it was FOAM.

 

NOPE. i'm not that crazy. seeing WAY too many trucks on the side of the road lately with there loads LITERALLY falling over. last one i saw was 4 feet over. how it was still on his trailer is beyond me. i can't imagine what that bill was for those 3 crane like wreckers he had fixing him

 

If you secure pipe PROPERLY it won't go anywhere.

 

Not really if you're hauling general freight. If you pull a step look for loads that require a step deck.

 

Milatary doens't allow any container over hang anymore because of south carlina law no longer allows any overhang on multiply containers. Loaded or not. You can overhang a single container as long as the total trailer and load is not over 53' long. This would include any front overhang.
Mo. is very picky about the 53' law. With a 50' trailer that gives you 3'. With a 53' trailer is no overhang.

 

With a long wheel base you might want to stay with a 48' trailer so the total lenght law doesn't bite you. With any trailer longer than 48' you are restrictred to a total lenght which varies state to state. Florida and Indiana is 75'. Virgina is somewhere close to 77'. I use to run into this problem till I traded for a 48' trailer. And I still get ask by Dot about my trailer size when I can not fit on their scale. With my 48' I am 81' long. Imagine when I had my 53' trailer.

 

I'm 75' with my 48 flat. I was 80' with my step and IN never bothered me at all.

 

Pipe isn't that bad at all. Keep it tight and it isn't going to go anywhere. I prefer the pipe that's in cradles over hauling the crap that isn't but I'll haul either or. If you keep your straps tight and actually use enough you shouldn't have any problems. It's the people that don't over secure when they're in doubt and then drive like a maniac that have problems with pipe. Call me crazy but if I could get paid a little better to haul the cradled pipe that's all I'd haul. 30 minutes I'm loaded strapped and ready to hit the road.

 

Indiana hasn't inforced this rule in quite a few years. Florida is quite different.