Crazy car carrier phobia...

Pullin2 · Nov 29, 2012

GAlanFink said: ↑

Interestingly enough, I did do that... I hauled trash and having said that I 'tried it'... I think they're the worst drivers on the road bar none as a whole.
I'm not bashing you portable parking lots but you'all drive like you didn't plan to be as late as you seem to be. Try slowing down a little (as a whole) and my impression might improve.
I know some of you guys/gals aren't bad drivers - the same goes for the trash haulers but when 90% of the trucks laying over on their sides on ramps are trash trucks, it kind of makes you get an impression, ya know what I mean?
'stupidly submit(t)ed post without foresight' may be a reasonable assumption but given what I see 'statistically'... my observations remain unchanged,... at least until I see differently (as a whole).
I'm speaking of the majority, not the few (and that's not a good place to be... up there with trash jockeys).

'Bigfoot'
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I'm still not with ya, Mac.

Are you dissin' car haulers or trash haulers, or are we the same in your books ? Just a hint on the latter: The trucks are a bit different looking between trash and car hauling.

Another news flash for ya: The majority of car haul equipment on the road is company owned and not broker, and the vast majority of that company equipment is speed governed ( usually at 58 - 60 mph ).

So what sort of 'statistically' speaking stats are you talking about here AND can you provide proof (in the form of valid links) to same ?

SL

cableclown · Dec 16, 2012

konakongs said: ↑

The picture is of the car being loaded and secured with soft ties or wheel straps as some call them. The deck has to be down to load the car. Once loaded the car was lifted so that it was level. I took the picture because it was a cool car.
It is easier to soft tie a car when you can stand on solid ground. If I was going to use chains I would have lifted it up level so I could work underneath the car because that is where the slots for the chains are.

Even if the cars are at an angle there is no way the car is coming off because the chains and soft ties are more than strong enough to hold the weight.

But I don't think that's exactly what you are asking about. You wanted to know why the cars are at an angle when loaded and going down the road, right? Well, as car haulers we have to load 8, 9 or more cars, that by Federal Law, has to fit in to an area that is 75' long, 8' 1/2" wide and 13' 1/2" to 14' tall. If they are loaded flat and level, end to end, the cars would not fit. The load would be too long, too tall or both. By stacking the cars one over the other we can fit them all on and still be legal. Think about the shape of a triangle. If you had two triangles and you wanted to fit them in a box you would stack them on top of each other with the one on top backwards to the one below it and at an angle or slope. Most cars are shaped like a triangle to a car hauler with the nose or hood of the car lower and the trunk or rear hatch higher. By loading them at angles and nose first or nose back we can make them fit better. This is a really simplistic example but I think it gives you an idea about why the cars are loaded this way. In reality it us more like putting a puzzle together in which the pieces are always changing shape on you. Every load is different depending on what vehicles you have (ie. small car, big car, suv, small truck, full size truck, mini van, cargo van, gas or diesel , dually, canopies, etc.) and every year new models come out which means you have to change how you load your rig every year too.

If this is a long explanation and sounds complicated, that's because it is complicated. It takes 2 to 4 weeks of training just to learn how to build a load and make it fit legally, and about 2 YEARS to become comfortable and efficient at doing this. After this a car hauler is more of an "auto transport engineer" than just a truck driver. Driving the truck us the easy part.

I don't have 2 weeks to write down all the reasons why and how a car carrier is loaded a particular way as every truck is built differently from different manufacturers, every truck has to be loaded differently. Most car haulers are assigned a truck and they learn how that particular truck likes to be loaded. Knowing your truck is very important as it allows you to load faster, load safely, reduce possible damages and notice where things are wearing out and repairs need to be made.

Car haulers are not just your typical truck driver. They are extremely well trained and usually have many years of experience driving trucks even before they started hauling cars. They are very conscious of the load they are carrying because it is not unusual for them to have hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not over a million dollars, of vehicles on their truck. This is in addition to the cost of a car carrier it's self which cost $250,000 or more new.

So please don't be afraid of us car haulers. You may be worried about us but we are a lot more concerned about 4 wheelers and that rookie truck driver just out of trucking school.
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I must be the acception ,i started out driving a parking lot in 95-96.it was not too bad, but that pete was a nice ride nice and smooth gliding down the road

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