Deck or frame bent

Load the wagon..
And like an old boss of mine once said, “quit looking back.”

 

Those Fontaine combos bent like snakes after a turn with axles in a spread position, I’m not surprised it bent with a boom lift, it’ll straighten itself up eventually…
They are made light even though they are steel frame and there’s side effects somewhere. Go figure where.

 

Did you park on an angle by chance over the weekend? I had my dry van rack once when I did that with a heavy load.

 

Had a Lode-King combo trailer behaved the same way. Any combo will to a certain extent. That trailer was a 53’ with a 12’ spread tridem. When it was loaded with long stuff, 2x6-16’s for instance it looked like a banana for a mile or so after a turn.

 

You may not have the same issues to the extent we do. We put 75,000lbs on a tridem trailer here if it and the truck make 34,000. With 57,200 on the tridem and the total weight you have on the trailer you have to pull sideways on them a lot harder than you would with 40,000 on a 10’1” tandem. The tridems pivot on or near the middle axle, so you’re skidding 2 that are 6’ from the pivot point sideways with all that weight on them when you turn hard. Once the truck gets 30 degrees or so off the trailer it’ll just stop if you’re not standing into the fuel.