Oops,anybody we know?

Theoratically you could put 40K on those spreads back there. With that tiny thin frame ahead of the spreads no wonder it broke.

Step decks is not really my wheel house, but I would have put that coil over the spreads or up near the nose roughly 14 feet back from the step give or take a little bit where the frame is thickest.

But before anything I would have checked the weight capacity of that trailer from it's factory manual to see if it can take the pressure of that coil or not. Obviously it failed under this one.

 

That coil is way heavier than 30,000.

 

You cant reason with one of these, you just cant....

 

When you're right you're right

 

Every inspection barn I've seen has a pit underneath where they can get under the lowest trailers.

I've just never trusted those AL frame trailers. I've never seen one broken like that but I've seen them broke in other places before. AL just doesn't take flex over time like steel does.

 

In Ohio you can get permitted for 105,000 on 5 axle 9' spread. So 80k isnt allways the case.

 

In TN, you can permit 112,000 lb on 5 axles, closed tandem.

 

I didnt know it was that much on a tandem,tandem. But my point is a lot of guys on here dont realize that 80,000lbs is not the heaviest loads on the road.

 

Some states do allow more for coils specifically (mostly big steel states) but I wouldn't be surprised if some states considered them like divisible loads and not allow over 80K. All they have to do is not put as much on the roll to keep it within legal limits. Unless there is some reason they need a certain length of steel at the manufacturer.

TN changed the law at the first of the year to allow 46K per tandem and 23K per single axle for permited non-divisable loads. Now I haven't applied for that much permit but the way the law reads, that would allow 115,000 lb on a 5 axle rig (I made an addition error on my last post where I said "112,000").

All that being said, you still have to stay within the load limits of the trailer at hand. On items like coils, you usually run into your "concentrated load limit" before you reach the total rating of the trailer. It's also been my experience that you don't want to bump against the max rating regularly if you don't want problems as in the pic.