Stacking trailers

If your hauling to a large construction site it's done with a crane....

 

We use large yard fork lift to stack them, that is easiest. Loading ramp can work, but takes longer. Usually put one on top of the one on the ground, with tandems towards front of trailer on ground, put # 3 turned the other way, with tandems toward the rear. Put 2 trailers on top of the one on the ground, total of 3 trailers pulled by 1 truck.

 

+1 for a heavy duty forklift. We loaded them 3 high all day long going out of a flatbed company I worked at. Basically like jbatmick said, you load the 2nd trailer backwards to how the "loaded" trailer will be, and the third on the top goes the same way as the loaded trailer. Stack your two trailers before getting them on the "load" trailer, then load on that and done. We dolly'd down the gear to keep them lower too, not sure if that's required for every setup.

(edit, found an image that shows what I mean)

 

I had sold one to this kid that was leased on to us, gave him a pretty good deal on it. He got to OkC and blew the motor in his truck and did a lease purchase with freymiller, left my trailer on OkC. I went to get it and a towing company stacked it for $75 with his wrecker.

 

hd wreckers & forklifts

 

Any big forklift or crane, including wreckers can do it, or a big outside ramp and use a tractor. I bought a couple flats, had them stacked, and used a ramp to unload. You gotta have enough room to pull the trailer straight off the ramp and then turn if needed.

 

A place in Wichita will stack them with four forklifts. They put one in the air and then you back under it, then the next one also. Got them straight pretty fast.

 

At TMC we loaded 3 at a time (2 stacked on one rolling), but strait up they are higher then 13'6. We cranked the landing gear all the way down and put them in opposite directions. With the gear all the way down they beairly clear. Also keep in mind, empty spring suspention trailers wont sit as low as an airbag trailer with deflated bags. Just be careful about your height. We loaded and unloaded with 2 forklifts.

 

yep. anything will work. I blew a head gasket on Mt Pocono. Another one of our trucks delivered my load then we hired a wrecker to stack my SD on the other driver's SD.

Back at our yard we unloaded with two farm tractors with front end loaders. One tractor at front left corner and one tractor at right rear corner. Chained from 4 points on the trailer to the bucket and they lifted it no problem.