Big Loads - Post Photos

Here are some photos CS to make it clearer

 

sure looks easier than backing it up to a container & chaining it up!!

 

Thanks Ron, that makes much more sense. Yeah being over 110 feet and needing a pilot car would suck. There are times where our 9 axle drivers put the pilot car and the jeep on the trailer and come home that way. We have 3-4 of our own pilot cars. makes for a tight fitting load with the pilot car backed up on the bolsters... LOL

 

So are you docking his pay and make him write on the board. Unhook airlines and light cord before removing neck
100 times. lol

 

I didn't dock his pay, it was funny enough watching him beat himself up all day for being a #######. Writing lines on the board isn't a bad idea tho

 

Drivers complain about mechanics and mechanics complain about drivers. This just goes to prove that both of us can have a dumb ### moment when the looking at new paint... LOL

 

I don't haul these trailers or anything so forgive me for this question as I don't know the weight of these necks..

When you hook up to the neck... Doesn't this neck slide when you back under it and hook up to the pin??? I mean I don't bang pins when I hook to my trailer but even still I would think there is some movement even if you hook nice and easy... I guess it works since you have already hooked it up after sitting like this... Just curious if it moves... I'd hate to have it slip off the wood and have no machine around to upright it again... That would make for a crappy day....

That's an awesome looking setup... Something I have always wanted to do was specialized stuff like this but I have gone a different route of trucking... I know if I ever do go specialized it will be a long road ahead learning everything... I'd want to start back into flatbed or double drop again before I moved into the big leagues.. Nice and easy and work my way up... But I am hoping I can finish my career as a waste hauler and retire on my government pension.. If not then I will look at trying to work into specialized RGN..

 

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much"

The neck is heavier than you think, but not so heavy that a bonehead driver couldn't knock it over. One of the things that you learn well before you get into a multi axle is to be easy at the controls. All the slamming and banging, and standing on the throttle and sawing at the wheel stuff that you see drivers do...a heavy hauler doesn't do. You finesse everything, easy on the throttle, easy on the steering, easy on the brakes. Why? Several reasons.

1. Standing on the throttle with a big hp motor will grenade the drivetrain.
2. Lots of top heavy loads in heavyhaul.
3. A multi axle trailer is like pulling triple pups.

You learn to be buttery smooth when driving. Almost like you are babying your rig.

 

Triplesix,
I saw one of your well quality company h.h. drivers Fri. that made a boo bo.
He had had jeep and stinger stacked. Well he didn't chain the stinger right and it rolled forward onto the the conveyor belting that they use for fenders and the multi axles.
He came into the trkstp here in Richmond Hill, Ga.
I was talking with a buddy of mine who is still there and was laughing when I saw it. He said what's so funny.
I told him and he cracked up also

 

One of those guys...


Went by the mother ship a few weeks ago. First time in years. I heard MJ mention that they bought a bunch of hoppers, well apparently they did. Also noticed that they had a yard full of those funky looking Coronados with the setback front axle heavyhaul trucks. I guess someone in the office has figured out that they'd better replace all of those drivers that walked out in 2012. Seems like they've hired a bunch in and made quite a few Class 2s into heavyhaulers. Perhaps they think that if they hold their hands tight enough and give them a sunshine injection that it's possible that these guys might be able to do the job.

Never underestimate the power of hand holding. Yessir, 20th century driver was rough and tough. 21st century drivers are spoon fed, arse wiped and coddled. Can't drive, can't think, can't take a shower, can't wear real shoes, can't speak, can't shift...

...and then they cry when you expect them to be able to do their job! The zombie epidemic grows.