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We haul pretty heavy stuff so most times we max out well before the trailer is full.
23 unit trailer and usually 17-18 units of chips or 14-15 units of sawdust and we're maxed but it's well over 80,000.
My truck has a GVW of 105,500 lbs although we're currently are only permitted for 103,500 in Oregon and 104,500 in Washington.
Empty it's at about 34,000 give or take a little depending on the trailer I have at the time.

 

It WILL fit.

 

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Just some of the sites I've been to...

 

I don't drive in the wood chip industry, how often is this a problem in the winter? Do trailers in the winter usually come out nice clean or is there usually some frozen haulback that doesn't come out? What do you usually do when the load is frozen?

 

Wow - talk about digging up an old post ! No worries thoo. Frozen loads of bulk wood product are always a worry in a CDN winter, or were in my day. I haven't hauled dry bulk in YEARS. That was an OLD story. I don't know what, if anything, is changed in the business. I know flat aluminum floor trailers dumped pretty good. I know 'possum belly' and chip trains with bellies didn't. Frozen loads in the bellies were very common. What to do about a frozen load ? Garage it in heat for a few days, leave it until spring, pick and shovel it out ....... If you're paid by the pound, then you want it all out. If your paid by the mile, you're not likely to jump into trailer and start digging. Maybe someone in the business currently can answer better. Cheers

 

Man frozen loads suck... I don't have a chip trailer but I do pull an aluminum walking floor trailer... In the winter we have loads that get stuck and it's a pain in the ### ... Sometimes our recycling loads get stuck but with a little persuasion the load with eventually come off after walking the floor forward and backwards and driving forward and backwards hitting the brakes hard as well...Yard waste is worst because if the stuff has been sitting for awhile it starts to ferment and becomes hot and steaming.. So when you load the trailer and then drive in the cold weather the load wants to stick to the sidewalls and floor.. So sometimes we drive 2hrs away and the load is really stuck.. All we can do it bring it back and put it in a heated garage then try to deliver again.. We used to get a tracked skid steerer and dig the load off with it but we don't do that anymore.. Stuck loads are a PITA for sure..

Same with hydraulic lines in the winter.. It makes all the equipment run very slow.. It's like sucking molasses threw a straw... You can get waste moving trailers heated and also you can have heated hydraulic tanks and lines.. I wish we would at least have heated hydraulic tanks so that the oil stays nice and thin, rather then thick... It would make the equipment run better...

 

I was doing some research on frozen loads as part of a project I'm working on to prevent the issue and came across this page. We have done an installation in a live bottom, dump truck and pup combo and have had great feedback.

GOV'T_Trucker, who makes a heated waste trailers?

 

I operated one of Keith's Manufacturing first walking floors. http://www.keithwalkingfloor.com/ We very quickly learned to put a small 8 x 8 tarp on the front of the trailer so that 4 feet were on the floor and 4 feet were up against the front wall/man door access. This formed a sort of a 'plow' that pushed the load out if it solidified. Also learned that with their early walking floors, a frozen load had a tendency to push out the Teflon slider dividers with the load.

Thanks for breathing new life into this thread. It was kinda fun to go back and read it.

 

Hey, just was browsing through here and saw a familiar site...that's Cascade...i'm in there daily