Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Spandrels-legal load, rest of week was all double ts. Site driver pointed right at them, sure enough the diagram was right. The double ts rest on those little feet/ squares protruding from the bottom. This is two smaller ones back to back.

Started out in wickenburg yesterday, ran straight to vegas, now im home. Easy as pie. No equipmemt BS this time.

Company who owns these trailers has in the last 2 and 1/2 weeks replaced 100 tires already. Normally these trailers don't get very far from Phoenix. Like tempe or casa grande far as they get. So the tires never heat up good. So go to vegas, and every one be having tire issues.

So far no one winding up with the OW loads have made it without losing a tire.


@LoneCowboy from my understanding, a super T is like a bridge beam. But you know, that's what im familure with.

@booley love those days. Kinda spoiled here, we have a driver in charge of the site, we deal with him and never talk to the construction crew. I called em walls till they got all technical.

 

@LoneCowboy my understanding was it's just a BIG double T. Usually, the T's are less than 12 ft wide (no escorts) But the super T's are about 15 ft wide. Mine was only about 40 ft long, so it was loaded flat. The 60 footers, I guess they load them tipped at an angle (almost like they load the leaning walls) and they are also pretty heavy (40 ton)

 

so, 13.25 hours of training yesterday. 13 hours. for a simple BS common sense crap. we all about lost our poo. even if we did get paid for it. Totally not helpful either. sure hope everyone got paid for it, cuz it was useless.

So today they say go here and pick up a loaded trailer from them and take it to the construction site at the airport. So i get there and they say take this one, this is the right one. Now, i want you all to be sitting down and even those heavy haul guys like Rontonio and such are just going to be amazed at the size of this trailer.



hahahahahahhahahaahah
i cannot stop laughing
My freaking tractor is almost longer than that. (it was seriously old too, no spring brakes).


then a crane move

 

Hope you didn't have to do any backing...those freakin' things will follow you anywhere, but you can't follow them to save your life...
I took my road test with one similar behind a tractor with no power steering... I must've got lucky, cuz I passed...

*edit* I'm correcting myself, we had a few of those pups that we dragged around for peddling, but now that I think about it, I used a BIG trailer (40 ft) for my road test... For the simple reason of not looking like an idiot when backing...

 

I pulled a 20 ft container chassis from Las Vegas to Atlanta, with my 310 in KW, the truck was longer than the trailer, and yes it was a trip the first night when I started backing in a hole at the truckstop. lol

 

This little basstard of a Jeep will humble a person real quick. Straight ain't too bad. Trying to 90 it off a road into a driveway... It turns faster'n you can blink. Lol.

 

A hint for you
when I pulled a single jeep and had to back back around corners I would slide the jeep down to the end of my frame/ramps, then chain from the axle ends over the trailer neck frame with a single chain and boomer. Then re-pin the jeep and the weight is off the jeep axle even if it is not off the ground. then backing is easy and you will find it takes about 5 minutes up and 5 min down with practice. I also used this trick to back a mile from a small damaged bridge.

 

Does that make it a lifted jeep?


I can see myself tangling that thing into a pretzel shaped trainwreck while trying to back up.

 

I've done that a few times.
It's in several different pieces at the moment.
Started fabricobling a air ride/ lift axle in place of the spring ride. At the current pace it'll be done sometime in 2029...
I want to be able to jump it up on the truck so I can get away from permitting when empty. Plan is to put a big set of D rings on the back cross member to chain it up to the neck if needed while loaded as well. Instead of crawling under to loop the axle.

 

That old backhoe must be heavier than it looks. Lol