High rail loading tips

Drive some back some.

 

9 equinoxes or rav 4s takes me 45 minutes on my quick loader. On a high rail it takes me a little over an hour.

 

Why would there be loads you couldn't haul with a quick loader that you could with a high rail?

 

Yeah, from time to time. Usually big stuff like multiple extended vans.

 

high rails are a bit more versatile due to every deck being able to move independently.

 

Oh ok, thanks! I would have to look at both to understand it but that's just because I've never hauled cars.

 

Quick loaders pretty much require the units be nose to tail. High rail let's you stack to have more cars in less linear space. Plus the advantage of independent decks lets you get lower, as you can drop the deck into a gap between the vehicles below.

 

These are very similar cars on the load. The bottom picture I could have hauled an extra car on the tractor but it would have been too close to the first one on the trailer to make it worth the risk for me. If you are paid by the car or percentage you will want a highrail. A highrail takes longer to learn, but when you do learn it you can do much more with it vs a quick loader. If you only do short haul's and multiple loads a day you will want a "quick loader". The term quick loader really depends on the person loading it, not the truck. When I first started hauling cars a 70 year old very experienced car hauler could routinely load his high rail and be long gone before I could load my quick loader. Now I can load my highrail almost as fast as he did, but not quite as fast. He had many more years of experience than I do.