Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Congrats!!!

Okay, now for the fun stuff...what's that rig you're running run weight wise? RGN? Truck and securement? Fuel? I'm guessing you know the answer, but I don't, so I'm curious to know if you'll be sticking with light weight freight, or getting OS normal, or as a sideline?

 

I'm right at 40k empty just a bit under full of fuel. I'm just running off load boards so I get what I can find for a good price. I was gonna do a short 50 mile oversize today but somebody bid cheaper then me so didn't get that. But got a nice over the weekend run tmrw with a telehandler.

 

Excellent! Good luck

 

Ok, thanks. I was just curious, because I used to haul a steel stepdeck with wood floor that, and I'd have to check out my old scale tickets, that I think made me fat at about 34k. It was company equipment so I knew with all the dunnage on the trailer etc, I could only haul certain weights depending on what it was and what each deck could take...I remember because the dispatcher asked me what I had on that thing. I told him one of your fat-"asked" steel step decks. Limited what I could carry on it. Seeing what looks like that all steel RGN of yours I figured it had to be heavier than that beast I had to contend with, regards keeping it legal without permits.

 

Lol my aluminum stepdeck and truck checks in at 34K lbs (full tanks) so I’d say you were on the lighter side…

 

I did say I'd have to check my old scale tickets... I specifically remember one thing though, with that stepdeck, the safest weight I could load and scale, was 41k, after that, or if it extended toward the spread...it would be questionable...I was just thinking to myself also that 34k might have been light. I remember the loadable weights pretty good because I had to argue with them all the time about how much I could put on the trailer, because I was regularly hauling a load from Michigan to Eagle Pass, TX that was I think, 42k, and it had to be about 12" back of the drop, and it only went to just before the first axle. The 12" was because that's where I had to position it to make sure the drives of the tractor scaled properly and also the spread. I need to dig out those scale tickets, maybe it was just the tractor that was at 34k.

 

Gotta say your memory has got to be off or thats a massive tractor and light as heck trailer (even doubly so for it being a steel/wood step, my 48 all aluminum regular flat is only 9500)

Edit to add
And even though my truck is stretched, and i have enough tools and equipment to do more than is perhaps wise, i still can haul 49k even full of fuel.
And im the lightest guy we have apparently, next closest is only able to do 48.5 because he carrys almost nothing, has no headache rack and has an old shorter pete pulling a 48x96 all aluminum covered wagon

 

Am going to check memory may have faded as I drove those from 2010-2014, but the trailer was ALL steel. I vaguely remember to myself it was as heavy as a van, which is about 12k. This pic is for a similar trailer, and shipping wt is 12k. With that weight, all I had to have was a tractor at 24k to hit 36k. Since standard conventional cab trucks can weigh 21k, add in securement, personal goods and driver, 24k is not hard to reach, which I believe is where I was. The trailer was that heavy.

 

I don’t see why not.
@motocross25 maybe you can weigh in. I know you guys hauled tie plates for the railroad.

 

Thanks for the tag @kylefitzy

Volume has not a lot to do with anything for the railroad actually. Most of it, if not all is flat rate. I’ve bounced from KC to Newport AR, loaded 6 ton of tie plates, dumped them outside Houston TX and bounced back to KC. All on the RR dime. Some of it is log book exempt too if they need it bad enough. Then it’s dump it as soon as you get there, whenever you get there, and go get another one.