How Many Walking Floor Drivers??

I was thinking the same-thing as well when it comes to hauling that type of material on a tandem... That stuff can be pretty heavy pretty quick so I don't think that trailer would be anywhere close to being loaded full to the top...

In Canada we can gross more then 80,000. So on a tandem axle 48ft trailer I could gross the truck at over 90,000lbs on the tandems... So the unit would be around 50,000lbs empty and the material would be around 36,000lbs on average... These trailers are 4 axles I am talking about so that when we were hauling yard-waste and compost we could haul up to 130,000....

I do see the odd tandem axle walking floor around here but not to many of them...

 

65 yards is about it. If it rains or dot is around 60 yards is enough. Can not get permits for weight in CT only 80k thats why we only run tandems.

 

How do they haul heavy loads like exactors, dozers, homes etc....??


We don't need permits for weight until after 139,788 lbs ... Permits over 264,000 lbs unlimited miles is $500.... Other permits are different priced depending on the weight, length and height is of the load..

 

We can get permits for non divisable loads like dozers and excavators and things like that but not for your every day freight or product that dont need a permit to be legal. Meaning i can load the mulch to meet the weight law the mulch does not weigh more than the legal weight allowed. Every state around us i can get a yearly permit for weight but not CT.

 

heres my rig and my new trailer(since that pic was taken the trailer has had numerous acid baths 05 KW W9L pulling a 48' 06 MAC smooth side triaxle live floor 125yd trailer. we do almost all our hauling in Massachusetts,Maine, New hampshire with the few scattered loads to a scrap place in philly. were permitted for 100,000 gross and we use every bit of it. here in the north east u see a lot of live floor companies with sleeper trucks cuz a lot of us like to stay out all week. i stayed out 3 weeks once when u get down in to southern Ma most of the live floors are day cabs

one thing i like about the trash business is the freedom...no gps, no quallcom, NO ELOGS!!!! i can be home everyday if i like but im 23 single and new to trucking and looking to make money.

most of us up here are paid by percentage of what the truck makes, which is mostly paid by the ton.....a $1,300 NET pay check and home every day is not to unheard of.

another thing is my truck is governed at 78 and usually the other companies are around 72

we go everywhere from muddy landfills to backing down little side streets in boston for a demo job. u never know where ur gonna end up

we haul anything that can be put in to a live floor trash, wood, mulch, demo, metal cubes or light iron scrap or even cars but its on hard on the floor

 

Those are 4 axle spread aren't they? I haven't looked it up, so what are you allowed per axle with a 9' spread. I should remember, but I don't.

 

So your not going to be full then? What is that, around 80-90 yard trailer?

 

The last couple days or three, some of our guys are hauling carrots and corn. We can't load up to our volume capacity because of the weight, even with an 8 axle. That stuff is heavy, a lot more than my chips/sawdust. I'm loaded to volume with my stuff, but a couple wet trash loads I had, I had to pay attention to my load gauges, and wound up with only around 80 yards. I haven't talked to the guys hauling the corn/carrots yet to find out just what kind of volume they had. I'll betcha it's only only about half the volume though.
Don't know if all you guys have seen my truck, so I'll put up a couple photos.

 

some where around 100 yards give or take a little.

 

I pulled many walking floors for three years during the midwest vegetable harvest.

We actually started in FL around March hauling green beans to Wisconsin canning companies. By mid-june the harvest moves to southern IL/IN/MO and we would stay busy until the first frost...

Most of the trailers were older Wilson "corrugated" side flat floor grain boxes that were converted to walking floors...