Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

True. If you don't like the rules to their game, buy your own ball.

I yelled at a forklift guy this week for touching the rub rail on my trailer. I'm a big believer in taking care of what I drive whether I own it or not.

While you're here- typical truck stop, how do I back in a spread gently? Lots of pull-ups?

Between two trucks.

 

A quick glance at the frame in front of the front axle. Takes about as long as kicking a tire. Usually it's the all aluminum frame trailers that have this problem from what I've seen.

 

Thank you for bringing this up. I had no idea. We have a couple older aluminum trailers, I will be looking now.

 

Just think of a pretty rainbow.

I'm not good at describing it but I'll try. I set up by pulling up the the spot perpendicular about 4 feet off the nose of the other tractors. Then when my drives are centered on the spot I turn hard right until my tractor IA about parallel with the spot and then I turn left until my tractor is about 30 degrees to the trailer. Then I back in like a rainbow. Just let the tractor follow the trailer in. And of course as many pull ups and goals as necessary.

Now with coils of that much weight in one small part of your trailer I wouldn't suggest going beyond 45 degrees tractor to trailer. I almost learned that lesson the hard way. The trailer could start to tip at the front.

 

Thats pretty much how I do it. I hug the side I want to turn into. The closer I can get the tail of my trailer into where I want to go,.. the better. I let my drives go a few feet past the spot,.. like you,.. I turn hard right and then before the trucks on the other side,.. I cut hard left again until I can look out my window and see the trailer aiming perfectly at the hole. I then start cutting back and the trailer will go in the hole. 98 out of 100 I can back it in with no pull ups. I dont do many things very well,.. but this is one I can proudly say I do well.

Reefer work and banging tight docks allowed me to perfect this skill. Before that I could back a trailer reasonably well,.. but after doing reefer work,.. I was a pro. Progressing to flat bed with spread axle was not hard to master. Occasionally you get the swing wrong when the weight goes on the front axle and off the rear. But most of the time its a breeze. My trailer is very easy to back into a hole.

Hurst

 

Thank you, that's what I thinking of. I will practise when I'm empty.

I just starting driving this horse on Wednesday. I very suspiscouly eyed this high quality toolbox on the cat walk. I stopped after 50 miles or so for a load check. This is what I found.

 

Doh.

 

That's not place to put chains lol. I can't believe people run around with crap like that all the time. Thank god my company built the trucks with a good headache rack.

 

It's 393.112 Must a tiedown be adjustable? Wasnt trying to inflame a riot here and no it doesn't state 1" must be showing! I was just stating previous Company policy and Veteran driver advice to keep LEO off your arse. I guess you could argue with them that you could always loosen and reattach but seems simple enough to just leave roughly an inch. Just my opion not trying to spread misinformation at all.