Advice on 3 car trailer for non CDL?

When I started hauling cars many many years ago it was in a 1 ton dodge 3 car trailer under 26k gvwr and i stayed in that setup for 4 months. You will NOT succeed in that setup. I was the owner and the driver and couldn’t make it profitable. Take our advise. Don’t do it. Not because we’re all scared of another 3 car trailer on the road, I personally don’t care, but when we’re asked and we give our advise based on our years of experience and it’s tossed to the curb...well you get the point.

 

Dear God man, my wife and I made a $170k investment last November in a new (preowned) 9/10 car. My wife never stops looking for loads. Im driving and on the phone constantly talking to brokers customers etc. it never stops. That truck has to eat and she requires our unending attention. This is not a 10 hr a week hobby. We are a one truck O/O and it’s rarely a week that we’re not WAY over 60+ hrs between driving loading unloading paperwork billing phone calls. This is NOT a hobby. It’s expensive as hell, and the risks are over the top. We have been very blessed, but those blessing are not a reault of anything other than very hard work all the time.

 

You're the first guy on here that I've run across that has hauled storage sheds. Ive been in the industry for quite awhile. What area did you haul in?

 

I hauled in south Arkansas for Premier Portable Buildings. We used single screw semi trucks

 

10-4 I never hauled for Premier. We do Derksen and several others in Texas.

 

And now that 12k trailer is overweight hauling 10,200+5180= 15,380 on that trailer.
Even the ultra light only goes up to 14k GVWR. No matter what, there is no way to legally pull three cars on there unless all three are those tiny smart cars

 

Isn't this where GCWR comes into play? Load transfer, pin weight going onto the tow rig?

As long as you don't exceed 12k lbs on the trailer axles, (or whatever it's stickered for) & the 26k lbs GCVWR you tagged the rig for, or exceed any of the pickup trucks axle ratings, where is the issue..?

I'm currently still pulling a 40' hotshot with a pair of 12k axles, & it's only stickered by mfg for 24k lbs.. Its a 29k lb trailer that's been downgraded to save FET, similarly to the way the Take 3 can be ordered.. It weighs about 10k lbs empty. I routinely load over 14k lbs on it, 17k-19k lbs if correctly distributed. As long as I don't exceed the trailer axle ratings, I've never had a problem during inspection. They can do math I assume, & always look at the bol's which have the products weight listed.. Dot or statey's have never said anything about my trailer being overloaded..

 

I have a 2005 dodge dually with a 2106 kaufman 3 car for sale. I ordered the trailer with a derated gvwr. the truck is 11500gvw the trailer is 14500gvw. The combo is 26k GVW and is ready to work. I just put a new motor in it also.

 

Hello all this is really good information.
Getting your DOT or MC is that similar to having your own authority??

 

Yes. DOT # is needed if you are running intrastate only, or your carrying only your companys owned product.

MC is authority. DOT & MC is needed for interstate operation as a for hire carrier. Transporting someone else's property..