Beam Hauling - Flat Deck

It's really no different than using a long dolly in the rear. Just gotta make sure everything is nice and straight.

 

Yeah, I would not want to set the trailer back any further than a stretch trailer at 68 feet. After that it gets really difficult to make some corners. Now if I had my preferences, it would be steerable every time. This way I don't have to put the truck in the rhubarb to make a corner.

I have seen steel beams and poles hauled that way but never a concrete beam. Having the landing gear that far back can be an issue also. I would prefer a stretch trailer but that has it's drawbacks too. I have yet to see a stretch trailer as a spread an rarely a triple axle. You also give up weight with a stretch.

Three axle steerable is by far my favorite. Gives you the advantage of a stretch but only weighs about 12k. If calculating the load weight, you just put 50℅ on the truck and 50℅ on the dolly. There is no weight from the dolly n the truck. All you have is the bunk.

 

From what I have seen we could use more professionals like these two in this industry. Father and son heavy haul team. Button down shirt and tie with a clean saftey vest on delivery day. Clean truck and trailers.

 

The landing gear will be what catches the crown of the road when you have to ramp it for the height.

 

That's all we ran, but I know tridems are much more prevalent up here.

 

Yes and that is a stepdeck. You do not see many tridem flats.

 

I was thinking more of the job site but yes just crossing a high crowned road or railroad crossing can give you issues with the landing gear.

 

Most of the stretch trailers I see here in Wait are tridems as well. Spancrete runs a bunch of stretch flats with tridems through Milwaukee all the time. Also every time we've rented a stretch step they are tridems too. We do have a tandem XL 35t stretch mechanical RGN that has a removable flip. Very rarely do we stretch and use the 3rd as the deck tends to flex too much by the time you get heavy enough to need it. At that point we just rent a 45t stretch. Been thinking about trading the 35t in for one of those 45t RUNs as we have been using it more lately and our 35 is getting pretty worn out.

 

I've been watching Nick's videos for a while and he is a great role model for the industry in my opinion. After seeing the way some of our former drivers looked when showing up to job sites I'm amazed they would allow them out of the truck.

We used to have a guy that would wear nothing but running shorts and I usually tried to not be around when he was so as not to be connected with him.

While I don't go as far as a tie and safety vest all the time I do try to at least wear a clean shirt with the company name when showing up to customers. As well as trying to keep the truck in order.

I can never understand the places who don't even wash their trucks. It's the first impression the customer gets when you pull up. If they see some guy pull up in a beat old truck that hasn't been washed in months or years they are going to really wonder if their very expensive machine is going to be taken care of.

 

All you had to do was ask.