Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Check out this thread: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...reads/math-formula-for-load-placement.307207/.

Do you pull the same trailer with the same truck all the time? Generally I like maxing the drives before the trailer, especially if you run into any low traction situations then at least you have that to your advantage already.

 

Yea nothing worse than pulling a hill and losing traction even on dry road because all the weight is on the rear

 

And then after breaking loose...

If you couldn't pull it, you might not be able to hold it!!!

Will you have enough to back it down nicely??? And keep it in line???

Or is it gonna drag you where it wants as you fight to stay in front of it?????

If there's any traffic? Will they be smart enough to get the #### outa da way????

No matter the weather or road surface,, that's not a good situation!!!

Been there done that!

 

Thanks, that thread is a good one. I usually pull a 53' flat, but no, it's usually a different one every week.

I noticed while scaling that most trailers scaled heavier on the trailer axles than the drives. So I usually do try to have a slight bias to load a little more on the truck first.

 

Yea a multi axle trying to go backwards is not fun

 

And many times, on a steep grade, or very low traction surface, you can't steer while on the breaks, just drags the steers...
So it's kind of a dance between slowing it then aiming it, then repeat!
Until you get to a happier place!!

 

I hear you on the dragging steers. I was trying to back down a very small slope on a quiet road to get parked for the night in front of the customer's place. Up in Red Lake, ON. Anyway, turned out to be pretty much all ice underneath the packed snow. Yep I watched those steers slide plenty while locked! Hah, fun stuff... Did finally get it parked after an hour without incident...

 

Ski truckin!
And that's the point, ladies and gentleman, where you pull off your seatbelt (if you were wearing one to begin with) and start only having contact with the interior via your feet and hands... Usually I scream lots of profanity: seems to help.
While going backwards is scary because you don't know where you'll end up- I almost prefer it over going nose first, where you have a pretty good idea of where you'll end up, and knowing that what you have behind you is probably gonna pack your ### pretty far into whatever you come up against

 

Big truck snow story.

Many, many years ago running boom truck....
I got a call: "go up to Headworks and pull the fish traps"
Up in the Cascade mountains, snowing like the dickens
Where you set up was called the "diversion dam"- a concrete pad with a little curb & then it dropped over a wall into the river.
No problem getting up there, parked on the pad popped the brakes flipped the PTO in, get out & drop the outriggers- the whole thing starts sliding towards the river!!!!! Ice under the snow!!!!
The guys on the ground are screaming "you're sliding!!! you're sliding!!!!"
No kidding, I figured that out myself.
With quick thinking and cat-like reflexes I pull the outriggers up- it kept sliding until the tires hit the curb & it stopped. If I had stepped off the operators station I would have gone 20' or so right into the river.

After that experience: if something that heavy starts sliding there may be nothing you can do to stop it.

 

Muds also fun lol