Step Deck vs Flat Bed

As far as I'm concerned there isn't another one! The other brands look great......until you load them and notice the arch is going the wrong direction.

 

The reitninour's look like stout trailers.

 

They used to be, then they went with the more flexible Big Bubba that everyone hated, plus it looked like crap with a 40k coil on it. Now that got a new one out that rated to 72k single I think, but it still falls short...

 

Interesting? The Crap is getting deep in here. Better get my boots on.

 

75,020# single coil and still has an arch with the axles up, Reitnouer's got nothing rated that high. These pics made it to Bud Reitnouer thanks to the salesman who tried to sell us a "Bigger Bubba" (still waiting on his reply)
Both East and Reitnouer have trailers rated for 72,000# in 4' Mac is rated for 80k in 4' for a standard 48' with a 10-1" spread.

 

Here's a perfect example of what Les was talking about. Broken Reitnouer, frame spliced and re-arched, sign me up!

 

Ferrous Metal Processing now there is a ########. Hauled many 57,000 - 72,000 single coils into that place on Reitnouers yet to see one go negative.

 

It's not bad if you compare it to driving on the moon (I was warned ahead of time before I got there so I didn't wash my truck, thanks Les. ) If I load 2 40k's (front and rear) on the Mac or the MMX East, both carry the load great. But with the curtain closed on both you can see where the coils are sitting on the East by looking down the rail, where you can't with the Mac. Most Reitnouers I've looked at where the same although they are my 2nd choice.

Only reason I took that load to Ferrous is to get the pics for the salesman. We priced a B-Train from Mac and Reitnouer and he was bragging about the Bigger Bubba so I wanted to pick on him.

Drops are another story, a guy here local has an East and never hauls heavy but it's been back to East twice to fix the neck where it has cracked.

 

Never owned a Mac i have a 2000 ravens that still has the origanal arch and i load it heavy and i'am in and out of some tight twisty area logging landings and it has no cracks or repairs on it, i've had 60,000 on the deck and no sag at all, the one trailer i would not own is a transcfaft it's all in what ya haul, spec a trailer right and it will do the job but don't buy a trailer not speced for coils and load 60,000lb coils on it and exscpect it to be fine. I see plenty of guys around me with the fonderful Mac with a sag when its loaded and cracks and welds just how you maintain and operate it will tell how it will hold up and last. Now for me a step is no good because to many of the places i haul out and into can not load a step.

 

Do you have one of the old magnums? They were the beginning of the bigger framed trailers. The only mistake was where that brought the frame back up right in front of the axles. If you had the 45' you had to be careful but the 48' wasn't so bad. I've seen alot of the 45's welded infront of the front axle.

As for the Mac's you were talking about, I'd have to bet they was the 50k trailers, which were designed not to haul coils everyday. I think Mac stopped making them cause alot of guys bought them to be light then tried hauling alot of coils on them and they just wouldn't hold up.