Conastoga tips and tricks

Great, and confuse those of us who call a covered wagon a covered wagon, a soft side a soft side, a connie a connie.... thanks for that.....

 

I'll suffer and tarp the BS tarp loads I get. Thats about the only time I really wish I had a conestoga. I've had guys with conestogas rub it in and tease me,.. closing his canvas up,.. and say,.. there,.. done,.. its tarped. MEanwhile I'm grumbling under my breath.

For the most part,.. a good 80% of what I do would be made more difficult with a conestoga.

Hurst

 

If i did low profile steel i would want one, most steel companies up here run the short connies

 

Exactly,..

I never bothered to ask because I didnt want to be teased for not knowing.

Hurst

 

"Side kit"
Has aluminum uprights that drop into the sides of the bed, plywood or lightweight plastic panels that slide down between the channeled uprights, bows of aluminum across the tops which set into the tops of the uprights and support a tarp that drops a foot or so down the side and rear.

 

I haul anything that pays. I prefer heavy equipment as my load of choice. But I'll do any kind of steel, coils, pipe, super sacks, pallet loads, crates,.. I took a 900lb tug tractor from Regan National up to another air port up in Ny for $2800 once. I think that was the easiest load I've ever done.

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I do over size from time to time,.. so a conestoga would kill my ability to do some of those loads,.. Crane booms, counter weights and jigs etc.
Hurst

 

90 percent of what we do would work with a conastoga so they are thinking we will make more with the time saved. It just all depends one what you haul the most.

 

It's official... So Confused...

 

Im just going to..... ummmm continue calling like I was taught. Because the definitions of what you all gave make no sense to me


Conestoga or covered wagon, looks like a Conestoga wagon.

Curtain sides, the sides of the trailer tarps move open and close like a curtain.

It has never failed me when calling it on the cb or bs ing with a driver so I don't think I will change.

 

When you look up conestoga for sale on google it shows a curtain sides of a trailer that slide on a rail system like a curtain my head is spinning