Weight limitations for flat beds

Find some fool that will do it and hope for the best. Oh let me know when and I can arrange Police escort and insp... teach you for being cheap... quality moves costs

 

Why are those dam tags up? Get em down.

With that said, I purr and say those are mighty nice rigs to my eye. Wonder what is the magic number of gross box weights on the backs of them?

 

Don't need them down all the time, you have NO idea what those containers weigh.

 

WANNA BET?!

maximum gross mass for a 40-foot (12.2 m) dry cargo container (including the 9-foot-6-inch-high (2.90 m) cube container) is 30,480 kilograms (67,200 lb). After correcting for tare weight, this gives a cargo capacity of 26,500 kilograms (58,400 lb).

You do NOT get to tell me flat what I do not know or know. And Ive loaded both types (Sizes, goosenecks, no gooseneck etc) really heavy beyond the gross weights limited on the back of the doors in pretty colored paint. Walnut comes to mind. 5feet across by god knows how long up to 40 foot shoved into a freaking box for Japan.

 

What if they're empty?

 

And they're 20-foot containers.

 

Now that would just be injecting common sense into the equation, and you know the know it alls don't have time to use common sense.

 

20 footers... I quit worrying about them long time ago, becuause they load em just as heavy as the 40 footers. Ive had cat scales out of Doswell VA with a 20 footer reading 42K on tthe drives and over 50K on the trrailer triple. Never mind the poor steers on those old mid 60's offset cab macks that day. Norfolk to Baltimore Seaport due by 8 am next morning The 20 footers suffer badly from a long wheel base tractor trying to back it any way, they fold fast like a book and refuse to get on a hole and stay in it. The curves on the freeway require you to slow down because those things are so tippy at your 5th wheel. I once ran a attorney off the 83 highway onto the grass median prior to the 35mph rated curve south and west of York when she refused to make room. So I threw my weight and made the room needed for myself. She sued. But without revelant information in those good ol days there was nothing for her in that particular suit.

 

Great story!

 

From 20' cans to shark bait in one paragraph.