Some brokers are stupid

07 or newer engine to enter the port in CA and its apparently illegal to pull a can in CA originating or departing from a port, ending the older trucks dropping the load and having a newer truck do the haul into the port.

 

And then you had the hole company drivers only thing that the unions where forcing. My dad, who still lives in CA, said even the liberal papers where against that.

 

CA to UT. with 14 ft being legal why would it have to be permited. becuase of the 13 ft 6 in????

i was told by previous boss that 14 didn't need permit. once i got into nebraska heading westbound. anything east of nebraska was a no go. PERIOD. luckily it was the weekend and everyone was closed.

 

Because a high cube is 9'6" tall and the typical flat is 5' tall= 14'6"

 

but LS said it was 14. not 6 inches.

 

But as an experienced platform truck driver you should KNOW that a high cube is 9'6", and a flat is 5 high, not what some broker says (no offense OZR)

 

I am just guessing but maybe;
a) the FM over ruled the driver and said "no way are we doing this for that low rate", or
b) we have a company policy that requires container locks, or
c) he was denied a permit because it could be made legal on a drop trailer

 

this overheight stuff is nothing to mess around with, and there's plenty of youtube videos to attest to that. Sure you MAY be able to get a permit, but will they route you 200 miles or 4 hours further ? Do you have to stop at dawn ? what city curfews do you have to abide by ?

What about the guys trailer ? Flatbeds vary a lot in heighth, is it going to be 14'6" or 14'10" ? You probably won't really know until the load is sitting on it. Some aluminum flatbeds are arched high which makes it difficult to shim up with boards, you need the crane operator to be patient and they usually are not.

lot's of potential problems here. High-Cube's are for SD's or chassis's, you're asking for trouble if you expect a flatbed to deliver them. prolly lucky his FM stepped in before the ratesheet was signed.

 

High cube cans are 9'6" and will not fly on most flats. I did drive for a small company, out of Oregon, that could actually do them, on our flatbeds. But we ran 225/70/22.5s on the trailers and the drives. Our deck height was only 54", front to back. Our specialty was hauling 9'6" reels of fiber optic conduit from Hillsboro, Or. to points throughout the West at the legal height of 14'. We were limited to Nebraska and west.
Basically, if you need to move a 40 foot High Cube, you need a chassis designed for high cubes, or a stepdeck with a 40' bottom, as all four corners of the loaded can MUST be supported, by Federal regulation.

 

A High Cube is 9'6" tall, where a standard can is 8'6" tall. On a standard flatbed, at 60" tall, a standard can is at 13'6", where a High Cube would be at 14'6", thus overheight and not permitable in many states.