Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Barriers to Syracuse
I-81 just below 481

 

Back when I was first starting I used to double load a bit when the loads worked out. I was hauling Lear-Siegler stuff to Napa stores, then I bought the right girl lunch by mistake. She put the loads together for me. I’d load the brake parts first, then I’d go up to Bolton Tube and hand bomb a load of exhaust pipe on top of it. All of it for Napas.I’d have about two dozen or more drops on it and couldn’t even think about a scale until I was out the other side of St Louis somewhere. But I did put one of those loads on that paid me $12,000US in 1980.

 

One of my escorts used to load chicken McNuggets out of Arkansas to Seattle every week. Reload apples in Wenatchee and then pick up a load of onions on the back. He made out like a bandit for awhile.

 

So if 9 units of 16’ fire treated is 48k ish- what would 9 units of 12’ weigh?

 

36,000. Luckily it's only going "a few miles up the road".

 

That would be up there, looks like the tires are touching. For most mills that’s when they know they hit local max. Those people all think every 2x4 in the yard fits on 1 truck. I’ve got trucks staggering out of mills with 56-58k/fbm of KD on them and they’re still trying to put more on.

 

Tires don’t look flat so that driver is good to go. Hammer Down!

 

Spring ride load gauge back in the day. When the tires touch you’re loaded. If you you flattened the bottoms right off you were fat, but went anyway. Usually the long way, at night, possibly with bias ply flying all over the place.

 

In the late 70's I hauled liquid fertilizer for part of the fall/winter until our fuel contract started. We steamed out a couple of fuel tanks and I got a 8500 imperial gallon tank and we were loading 3850 gallons of 28-0-0 fertilizer to dealers on secondary (74000lbs) roads. Dispatch would give me 10 or 15 orders and send me out. the plant is 4.5 hours east of the yard and most of the deliveries were 4 to 6 hours NW of the plant and 2 to 4 hours north of the yard. Like you I got friendly with the nightshift guard/scale-op and if I loaded after 10pm I could scale the first load go back and load a second load for the same dealer and she would manually punch the second load ticket. As long as I had the load started into the dealers tank before he got there in the morning no questions were asked. I could regularly do 10 days work in 6 by doing 3 loads per day instead of the 2 that dispatch figured we could do.

 

I may have once or 17 times loaded a particular OSB board that was supposed to be on a maxi on 5 axles…………