How Many Walking Floor Drivers??

Some of the older trailers we had (auctioned off) were a 10' spread if I remember correctly... All of the trailers have difference spreads tho so I am not to sure of them all.. We just basically use the general rule of 9.5 tons per axle... We have 214 wheelbase tractors with heavy duty frames and axles.. The front axle is good for 14,500lbs and the drives are good for 40,000lbs

I have posted three pictures of some trailers we have... The first picture is a steel 48' universal trailer with a steel axle, the second is the newest trailers in the fleet 53' Titan Aluminum 5 axle with the steer lift (front and back) the third is a 48' fanotech closed top for food waste it has the same spread as most of our fanotech open tops...

The laws changed not that long ago that allowed for 53' trailers like this to haul the weight that they can... It's was most common to see 48 foot 6 axle steel trailers hauling around 39 tons of material... Now our garbage hauler (contracted out to another company) has changed to 5 axle closed top aluminum titans they haul up to 39.5 tons...

In our new 5 axles we can legal haul up to 42 tons inside the trailer but due to our lower gross registered weight that would put us over.. So we are restricted to 37 in the box which will give us our 58.5 ton..

 

John - Take these trailers for example.. I am sure you probably see these guys in Michigan.. They are hauling food waste in these trailers I believe, they could be hauling garbage in them too tho (I know when they come pick loads from the City transfer stations they are picking up food waste not garbage)... Anyhow they have 7 axles on the trailers and are only able to deploy 6 of the while in Ontario once they hit Michigan they need the 7 th axle to be legal.. They use the 3rd back one from the front of the trailer... So they are grossed out at 63,500... So this is a case in which Michigans requires lots of axles for less weight then we can haul with less axles..

I remember once asking a guy at a place in Michigan when I was an OTR guy... I was picking up steel coils at a plant somewhere on Michigan.. He had a bunch of axles and I remember him telling me what he can haul I was surprised as it wasn't that much weight compared to what I was able to haul here in Ontario with less axles..





I like this companies units.. They are based out of Trenton, Ontario....

 

Sorry for the huge pictures.... that is what they have on the site...

 

Yeah those Scaletta guys are grossing around 140,000

My company is at 129,000

I drag around a tri-axle everyday (until I get my 5 axle) and gross out at 106,000

 

yeah my unit is 44,000lbs empty with a aluminum tri-axle (this is the lowest MT weight we have)... Our highest MT weight is 57,400lbs with a steel 4 axle trailer...