School me on hauling bricks

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  1. ShooterK2

    ShooterK2 Road Train Member

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    This is is a good idea. I saw one of their trucks (I think they have their own trucks for local area deliveries) yesterday, and it looked like it had expanded metal on the sides of the bricks. Cages possibly. I couldn't tell for sure.
     
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  3. billandlori

    billandlori Medium Load Member

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    We always use the plastic snow fence. Its light and easy to bungee together, the bricks will chew up a tarp fast. Two 50' lengths will cover the whole load and keep all the bricks on the trailer.

    Bill
     
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  6. Cat sdp

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    Before you get carried away I'd look into what they pay..
     
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    Thanks. I plan on it. I have no clue about the rates on brick.

    There is also a sheetrock plant nearby, but they won't load my trailer because it has a bulkhead. And I can't take it off and use a headache rack because we also haul frac sand and don't need the extra weight on the tractor. But I do know the rates on sheetrock are decent enough.
     
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    i had put a piece of metal under the headache rack from frame rail to frame rail and stacked theme there
     
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    I've done a few loads of the smaller red bricks. They were on pallets and they were stacked so the long sides were on the sides of my trailer. They were banded together using those plastic bands. I used my longer 10" plastic edge protectors and strapped the pallets that way. IIRC it was only 10 or 12 pallets. Thats all I could carry and scale legally.

    Wasnt difficult at all. Of the 3 loads of bricks that I have done,.. I never lost any bricks. Only reason I dont really do them is because they dont pay very well. Was just a load I took to get me where I had another load lined up.

    Hurst
     
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    I was delivering theme steady for a landscaping company and hurst is right they if they are stacked right and banded they really arent hard to deal with. I seen guys take to pieces of plywood connected together with old straps and that worked also
     
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    Take off your headache rack and call it good...?

    Ive done specialty brick more than a couple times. Gotta be tarped because of uv damage to the colorants used. It's banded real good on pallets and shrink wrapped.

    For regular brick I'd have to haul a lot of it to buy brick mats. They are like $80 per.
     
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