FedEx Ground Linehaul with JohnBoy

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  1. High Stepper

    High Stepper Medium Load Member

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    It just depends on customer needs, we have a couple big accounts that get trailers daily or multiple times a week that may have extra empties so we take a dolly with us when they are getting a single pup to bring an empty set back.

    I always leave both sides open and block them off when just pulling a pup and dolly out of habit, but i can see why others would just open the emergency side..
     
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  3. JohnBoy

    JohnBoy Road Train Member

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    You mean like this? IMG_5572.jpeg
     
  4. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    Just curious, do you ever get a heavy trailer? If so, how do they rework them?
     
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  5. viper822004

    viper822004 Medium Load Member

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    FedEx ground doesn’t have heavy trailers. It’s all single boxes. The trailers are light. Only time you switch is if the back trailer is just way to light.
     
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  6. viper822004

    viper822004 Medium Load Member

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    Sorry. Meant to say if the rear trailers is way heavier than front, then you switch them. Other than that, they don’t rework trailers.
     
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  7. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    I thunk that's what you meant. Heavier to the front.
     
  8. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    I have a question that I never knew where to ask. You guys would probably know.
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    Is the floor of this type trailer flat or depressed? If they are depressed do they just stack boxes on top of boxes?
     
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  9. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    UPS has pups like that. I think the floor slides back. They load the low section and close it, then load the rest.
     
  10. FLHT

    FLHT Road Train Member

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    fill the belly with freight and fold down the flooring and load over the top.
     
  11. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    @JohnBoy If you would, in light of what Viper just said allow me to pass on a bit a wisdom that I caught on to in my own experience pulling pups that has served me well.

    If you have access to a scale, use it every time. Not so much out of concern for being over gross or on an axle, but just to be able to tell on your own if your trailers are backwards.

    If the dolly axle and the rear trailer axle both individually scale heavier than the front trailer axle, that’s a dead giveaway that there’s a problem. Every time I’ve encountered that, reversed the set and reweighed, everything wound up reading progressively less from front to back which is always a good thing.
     
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