to all end dump haulers...

Well The trailers do hold up. I'm picking up the first one in 10days and the 2nd one ordered for delivery in March. I wouldn't spend that much money on junk.

 

So did you order the all aluminum half rounds or the one with the poly inserts

 

The first one I am getting is a demo model called a panel side which is a new design they are coming out with. I'm goin to field test it. The one that I will get in March is a half round composite trailer which has the UHMW body. It's not an insert. The skeleton of the trailer is aluminum and the rest of it except the tailgate and nose is made from the UHMW plastic. It has disc brakes also.

 

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A lot of great information here. Thank you to everyone for contributing. I'm on the fence between dump and tank. I've driver a dump truck so the whole thing isn't completely foreign, but no where near close to a 40'+ trailer going into the air!!
I did have a experience with dumping near power lines. I was dumping in the middle of town. I dumped it off ok, but rolled forward and the front of the dump was close to power lines. I had to drop the dump a little, stop roll forward, drop, roll, then got it all the way down. If I wasn't paying attention to my surrounding I would have had a VERY serious problem on my hands!!

 

I dump everything, and I am usually dumping on level concrete ground. I usually dump inside buildings as I haul food waste to the processing plants.

I am not concerned about tipping, I do it 1) it stops the air bags from over extending (tractor) when the load starts sliding from the front of the trailer. 2) it gives me a little extra inches of height that I can put the box up since the roof of the building is not that high.

Our trailers automatically dump the air as soon as the PTO is engaged, so this is something that I have no control over one way or the other.

On the uneven ground dumping, I'd rather have somewhat of "rigid" suspension, instead of air bags going up and down while moving forward. Not to say it will go over because of the air bags being inflated, just another pre-caution I take that only takes a sec to do and have peice of mind.

 

I’ve seen a dump hit lines I swear it ain’t anything someone will forget

 

No it's NOT a competition. You do it your way I do it my way and that's how it is period end of story. The difference is I OWN my truck and trailer and you drive someone else's. SO if I damage mine then it's on me no one else. So it would stand to reason I would NOT be doing anything STUPID. How many trailers have you turned over? Me, none zero zip. So please, you do your thing, your way, allow me to do mine, my way and let everyone else make up their OWN minds. I have a square trailer well actually it's called a tapered trailer which means it's wider in the rear than the front, like a wedge. I haul 88,000 lbs. every day and more when I load in the field where there is no scale until we get where we're dumping or someplace with a scale. The liner and other things make a difference. What you haul makes a difference. So as you gain experience you'll learn what you can and cannot do with your equipment

 

A guy I know got in some of those lines coming off the transformers feeder lines (I call them) at one of the plants. It blew out the tires, fired the electrical, melted the trailer to the lines shut down everything in downtown. To top it off instead of staying in the truck where he was safe the fool jumped out of the truck!

 

That was the same thing I witnessed but one of the lines fell on the truck so he stayed in the truck