So explain 'conestoga'...

You cant load a curtain side with overhead crane as a previous poster implied. Thats the beauty of a connestoga, only restriction is no oversized, and thats even being worked out from what I hear.

 

Funny, it's called whining by the party not paying for damages and lost time. What is it called when a driver tears a company's roll-up door down? A whiney customer?

 

That makes no sense, don't you know what a covered wagon is? must be torn down to load from both sides, which is a pain to do.
No damage or lost time like you were saying.

 

Here you go...

 

The big benefit of a conestoga vs. a side-kit flat (covered wagon), is how quick you can cover or uncover the whole trailer. I did some work with one on multi-stop loads hauling steel siding which was up to 30ft. long. How can you make 10 stops in a day with anything other than a conestoga ? If you had to tarp and untarp you'd be lucky to get 3 stops off. If you had a side kit, same thing, maybe a little quicker.

Oddly enough, I saw a conestoga with a reefer today. Anyone heard of that before ? It kind of made me wonder if he made it custom for something in particular, (trying to think of something refrigerated requiring side or top loading ?) Or if he was just on a steady Conestoga run and found a reefer backhaul he could do better on or something.

Anyways, the only other things I can tell you about Conestoga's is some of them are taller than others. And also, don't be fooled into thinking you can haul any old flatbed load with a conestoga. Besides obviously not doing any overdimensional, you also can't haul things like insulation or anything stacked too top tall on a regular flat, (it won't slide over, needs to be a foot or so shorter even with a tall conestoga. Even loads that are 96" wide can be real pesky if not impossible. So while Conestoga's are nice to save you from tarping, and can bring a premium on certain loads, they also limit what you can haul.

 

Maybe he hauled onions or some sort of food?

 

Perhaps equipment that required protection from freezing?

 

That may have been my old bosses truck, was it a Lilly Trucking rig?

 

Here is my definition of a Conestoga wagon.



Years ago the double drop trailers with side kits were sometimes called the same thing.

 

wow the more i look at these trailers the more i wanna drag one. i wouldnt mind multistop loads with the ease of these trailers. i honestly dont know why even my company doesnt have more than jsut one of these and its always hauled by the same o/o.