The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

It's a Kaufman, nothing special but has been a good trailer.
I've done the air and electrical once ,now the phone stays in the truck while loading or unloading. It's got a Trail King style connection, easy to use.

 

Would bet more on some box driver bought his "dream" old w900 that was stretched and wore out then box freight bottomed out and he started pulling a conestoga without understanding flatbed.

Its worn out. Look at the crappy paint on the stretch.
The lack of paint on the side fairing removal.
Its a 95 or earlier kw


The new looking chains can get a pass, but those binders are basically never used.

Edit to add

New dot #, and the wing vents are opened up for scooping air into the sleeper, so the ac probably isnt working (like most kws)

Too much spent on adding dumb chrome (bottom runners on fuel tanks) and not enough on REAL maintenance

 

Hauling a Prenoth T14R by the looks of it!

I don't know that I have seen any Kaufman's around here.

 

They are built in South Carolina. It's a less expensive trailer than some of the top brands . It works for us about the biggest thing we haul is a 350 JD excavator, sometimes a Sany 365 long reach. Most of the time right of way high cutters and a lot of rental equipment.

 

High quality carrier here.
A reminder to not store chains and binders in your sideboxes, and if you must, to properly reinforce the box.
That strap is the wrong orientation for what hes trying to acheive.

 

I’ve had the bottom blow out on my trailer box with under 50 lbs in it. Now I always buy a 2” 4 ft L channel from Home Depot and reinforce the corners.

 

The ole Lady sent me this.
Another gem from my hometown..

 

Question - when hauling an excavtor is there any reason to have the bucket not resting on the deck? The other day I saw a small excavtor being transported with the bucket in what I think of as the 'travel position' - ie moving the equipment into position to dig. That made the knuckle on the boom about 14' off the ground. I'm guessing whomever loaded it on the standard flatbeed didn't/wasn't/incapable of thinking about it, but it got me thinking about it.

 

Preferably, the bucket will be folded up all the way and the bucket linkage will rest on a hardwood block on the deck. This will result in the lowest possible height of the boom, and the stick ram and bucket ram are fully extended so that settling is unlikely. Exceptions are if the teeth of the bucket will hit the boom, or if the bucket ram will contact framework prior to the bucket and or linkage contacting the deck in the case of a lowboy. In this case the bucket should be unfolded to the point in which it will contact the deck first, without the teeth hitting the boom, and with the stick folded all the way. One must consider how to chain the bucket so it cannot fold during transport as the hydraulics settle, since the bucket ram is not fully extended if the bucket is un-folded.