Choice RGN

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Everything was good with it. Other than the fact that the clearance light plug under the middle of the trailer had a problem. Worked fine when I picked it up, ended up going out shortly afterward. Wired a jumper around it & told the rental company about it so they can decide how they want to handle it with the manufacturer & the warranty it should have.

Being brand new I wasn't worried about it handling squirrely or breaking on just one trip.

The guy that was dragging my big trailer, which forced me into renting this one, had the problems. Told him where to place the piece, told him to scale it out, he didn't follow any of my input & ended up paying for it. Got himself a nice overweight fine at the scale in Refugio, TX for being overweight on the trailer tridems.

Amazingly, he had eight axles, I had seven, hauling the exact same things 86,000 pound bow thrusters & failure to follow advice he got the ticket. He's never done more than about 60,000 pound loads before, not sure if he will get another chance in the future with us.

 

Nope. Like everything else to do with trucking regulations, it's more about the money than anything else. Not to say I haven't seen them force the issue & you end up with an expensive bill for the equipment needed to move it to come pay you a visit. Haven't had to do it personally, I've been pretty good/lucky with my load placement & scale all but the short local moves.

Actually in this instance if he had scaled it & seen that he was over on the trailer & light on the stinger then we could have adjusted the shims & airbags to get more on the stinger. But some people insist on learning the hard/expensive way.

 

They are more likely to make trucks with the capability to slide axles & 5th wheels or carrying smaller divisible loads to slide or unload some product to get right.

With set axles & a big one piece load, there is not much you can do other than reposition the load, which entails getting a crane or in some cases a big forklift out to the scale to move it. In his case he could have slid his 5th wheel a little but that wouldn't have been enough & probably would have put him over on the drives. His other option was to adjust the stinger to take more weight, but the cop didn't make him.