This lady showed up at one of my stops yesterday and I noticed this box on the front of her trailer.
She gave me the nickel tour and what it was was a storage place to put all her load bars blankets and plywood out of the way.
When you’re inside the trailer, there is a big door that folds down and acts as a ramp to put all her equipment in that front area.
anyone else seen this before?
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Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Bakerman, Nov 9, 2019.
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Ok, dumb question.....how is that legal? How does it not make the trailer effectively 55’ long or so?
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Dunno? I saw that it had a patent number on the front of it.
maybe because it’s on the front and out-of-the-way?
at first I thought it was like a nose cone, aero type thing.alds, PE_T, Rideandrepair and 3 others Thank this. -
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Could just be easier to put a headache rack on the truck , just modify it for dry van driver
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Need to have easy access to your blankets, load bars and plywood inside the trailer.
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In WA we couldn’t overhang their front of a 53ft flat without a permit. Be interesting to see how these play out.starmac, Rideandrepair and Bakerman Thank this. -
She said they have at least one more of these trailers in their fleet
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They make these holders for load bars that clip into e track. They are slickers than snot. Line a dozen up at the back neatly against the wall.
Think I'd just opt for the box underneath if I had to have one.
Most guys just stack their blankets in the van.
Plywood. Meh. 1/2 " cheap, then just donate it someplace.Bean Jr., D.Tibbitt, Rideandrepair and 1 other person Thank this. -
I used to have my plywood on the back, but it just got in the way so I moved it to the front of the trailer up against the front panel with about five or six load bars holding in eight sheets of five eights plywood.
Then I keep all my extra load bars up top against the roof of the trailer in e-track that is up as high as it can go to clear any tall pallets that I have Mike coming in.
then I keep all my blankets on four wheeler so I can move them around easily either out of the trailer while I’m loading or up to the front and strap them in out-of-the-way if I don’t have to use them.Last edited: Nov 9, 2019
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