Can you convert a new trailer with duals to super singles?

Please don't even whisper about 5 dollar fuel.

 

Why not? As my cost goes up my rates go up. I hope fuel goes to 10 bucks a gallon and stays there for five years. All these fly by night shoe string budget guys driving rates down will be bankrupt.

 

It's only illegal if you get caught. Florida DOT threatened me with a ticket once. I pulled over and parked there. One drive tire blow out was a $600 road call and the TA was 5 miles away in Baldwin. I just waited til it was late and limped it in there. If you are close enough, why not limp it in there? It really depends on the cop. DOT saw me do that on Georgia and Indiana and they just waved hahaha

 

The rates never seem to go up fast enough to keep up with fuel from what I've seen.

 

That means you need to work on those negotiating skills.

 

You can trade in the duals on a dealer stock trailer to a place like Vander Haags, there is a place in Joplin called Allied tire and oil that has a bunch of them, or any used trailer dealer. A used trailer dealer would probably swap you for free.
The stock trailer(s) you’re looking at have a standard axle. You’ll need to make sure the wheels you end up with are 2” offset wheels.
If you custom order a trailer, it is not much of a difference, if any, to order it with super Singles.
I runnthem on both my truck and trailer and have no issues. Just check the air pressure and check the tire each time you stop to make sure you haven’t picked up a nail. I strongly recommend to not use recap super singles. I’ve had them blow out on 4 separate occasions.

 

It's no great shakes to swap them out. In fact, I just bought a reefer in March that had super singles that I had replaced with duals. It took them less than a day to do it.

 

Yea that I do.

 

If fuel goes to 10 bucks a gallon, my loaf of bread will cost 15 bucks. As a company driver hauling milk, i wont be able to afford bread, and the entire milk industry would probably shut down. Farmers would be dumping it down the drain more than they already are.

 

Dude the truck fuel cost on a loaf of bread is like a penny. That loaf is loaded up with 10k mile loaves in one trailer. The additional fuel surcharge is going to spread out to every single one of those loaves resulting in a minimal per item price increase.