Manac flatbed trailers?

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  1. Traveling Jones

    Traveling Jones Light Load Member

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    Anyone out there pulling a Manac combo flatbed? If so what are your thoughts on them?
     
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  3. DrFlush

    DrFlush Road Train Member

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    I leased one for a bit from the company I am leased to, it was brand new and junk. It had a ton of flex in it and it broke down way too much for a new trailer. Electrical and air problems. The guy that purchases trailers for our company said they had some older units that were built in Canada that were good trailers but the new ones were built in the US. They said they will not be buying any more of them.
     
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  4. Traveling Jones

    Traveling Jones Light Load Member

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    That’s good to know! Thanks for the reply.
     
  5. Jumbo

    Jumbo Road Train Member

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    All we have is Manac flatbed and step decks aside from the older Nabors and Transcrafts still in the fleet. New and old. The flats are all aluminum or galvanized depending on the application and the steps are also a mixture. I have not encountered any of the problems stated above.
     
  6. johndeere4020

    johndeere4020 Road Train Member

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    They were buying those when I was there, I liked them a lot better than the Transcrafts. We had a tri axle with a pin on 4th that was a tough trailer.
     
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  7. Traveling Jones

    Traveling Jones Light Load Member

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    I’ve been looking at the Manac combo model Legend SD. Which is a very no frills set up, but also in my budget.The all aluminum trailers look nice.
     
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  8. kylefitzy

    kylefitzy Road Train Member

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    For what it's worth most of our stretch flats are manacs. 53/90' trailers and they pull dead straight. I haven't had any issues with them. Just got a 3 year old trailer dot'ed and it took litterly 10 minutes it was that clean and dry underneath.
     
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  9. Broke Down 69

    Broke Down 69 Road Train Member

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    My last company had a few and I never had a single complaint when pulling a load with one. Empty, on the other had, well let's just say when dispatch said to bounce over to pick up a load, that's exactly what it did. Far worse than any other model I ever pulled and we had a wide variety of manufacturers.
     
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  10. Jumbo

    Jumbo Road Train Member

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    The global headquarters is now a distributor, for Manac and Landoll.
     
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  11. special-k

    special-k Road Train Member

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    If it's spec'd right it'll be ok. Never be great but ok. If you are going to do heavy coils or dies or rear unload dock work make sure you get it from someone who knows how how to spec a trailer for that kind of work.
     
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