$1900 Tow Bill

Pushing loads off the sides of a trailer puts stress on them that they weren't designed to take. You do it long enough and you'll have a trailer that's so far out of true that you might as well scrap it.
Some of the damage won't show up right away but it shows up eventually and it shortens the life of the trailer.

 

If by "going down the road just fine" you mean dog tracking several inches you are right. Do what toy want with tote equipment. Me i like my equipment to have straight frame rails so it pulls perfectly straight and the deck sits perfectly level and not have one corner sagging two inches lower than the other.

 

That's absolutely right. Frame rails are engineered to support loads with the weight pushing straight down on both of them equally. They have a little bit of flex to accommodate one wheel dropping into a pot hole but are not designed to have one side buried in the mud 3 feet lower than the other. Heck you can bend a frame rail just by whipping a uturn on a spread axle in a tight radius. If you are lucky the suspension welds will crack instead but i don't plan on luck.

 

You should get that driver orginized.

 

Since I've been driving, except for concrete on a job site, if you get the truck stuck, you pay to get it unstuck.

 

Or ya get a little help from your new bff.......lol

 

Almost. or is that sarcasm that i missed?

There is no padding to protect the straps from the hard edge of the steel. if it were to slide, even a little, it would cut the straps like butter.

 

I bought an 05 Ravens magnum and pushed 70-80k payload loads off the side for 12 years. 3-4 pushes from a back hoe or loader to empty the trailer 2-3 times a week every week. The day I sold it I could put 51,000 lbs coil dead center and still had an arch. Went down the road straight as an arrow the day I sold it. Never rebushed it, never had to have an alignment, and never had a single thing welded. I bought a new East in 98 same thing for 8 years but did have to do a little welding on it but it wasn't caused from the pushing it was a common repair on all East caused from over loading it. Never rebushed it and never had an alignment and pulled straight as an arrow.

They do it everyday, day in and day out so don't say it can't be done or that it ruins or bends the trailer.

I've never seen or heard of any flatbed bending from doing a U turn. You can't be serious if you think they don't engineer a trailer to do a tight U turn with out bending. That is a joke.
I just came from the mill and had half dozen guys put 2 40k lbs coils (count them 2 --- 1 40k in the front 1 40k in the back) on their trailer and do a U turn to get out.
If you like I can record it for you tomorrow. They do it every day down there.
Is it good for the trailer NO but it sure as he!! won't bend it. That's just absurd.

 

And he is supposed to have 2 straps within the first 10 ft of that top bundle.

 

One company was moderately successful in withholding WORK. A country's worth of work to run, a billion per annum in revenue in the family of companies and thousands of drivers but no work for uppity big mouth me.

Maryland awarded in my favor. Eventually. Which caused this company to quit hiring all together from that state. If I did not know any better they would be the early Russian mafia type but I don't have nothing to run on that bad.

I am working on presenting pretty good. It's alot of work and fortunate thta much of the things what was is literally as it is, ancient history and when you have learned all you can from it, discard it and move on. The greatest solution ever I celebrate to this day is actually joining up with first class outfits in which maybe one day sometime you will say, you made it.

I might still check those tires every 3 hours on bad roads and what not... but if I can help it we are going to get there ok.