HELP! I got roll up door trailers. What should I do with them?

We had [2] 35' roll up/lift gates, one 40 lift gate, one 48 lift gate and one 53 with roll up/lift gate though it was the only one.

All the rest of the 53 were swing doors but we had a handful of 48's with roll ups and a handful of box trucks with lift gates.

Most of them worked within 100 miles of NYC.

 

If you can throw a liftgate on them and find a small local business that has maybe 10 stores or so and restock them. They may have been using a box truck you can present them an offer to save the headaches with dealing with the liabilities of transport and offer them a warehouse to store route. It is likely that they don’t have docks at all stores and the liftgate and touch service will be appealing. No lifting injuries by their employees or accidents in box trucks. The roll up windows will be nice when they finish loading the trailer they can secure it without your driver being present. You have steady business with no broker. Look at you go.

 

I read 53' trailers came out in 1989, but didn't gain steam until the 90s. Just about every grocery warehouse went with 53 foot wagons and all had roll up doors. The bread wagons I pulled in the late 90s were all 53s and roll up doors. I read 53 foot trailers are not allowed in California unless king pin to center of trailer axles does not exceed 40 feet. Is that true?

 

Any trailer over 48ft has to meet the 40ft king pin rule in Cali. They don’t watch it like they used to. I ran out there weekly for almost 2 years with a 52ft spread before I got a ticket.