The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

it’s over 15’6” tall they will not give you a through transit permit.

I just moved a 15’ 6” tall 15’ 10” wide load through there to New Jersey in August or July ( it all blends together)

trust me the route was so F’d up you would want to go voluntarily- 11 hours to go a little over 200 miles between the trees and the overhead lines and the stupid turns.

 

I may have gotten the height wrong, and he was "going back north once getting past OH", so he had a good ways to go.

Personally, and from a position of ignorance, this cargo looks big enough that it should be transported the same way the turbine tower sections are. Or at the very least with a steerable trailer. It's giving me the same vibe as trying to haul equipment in a standard dry van - yeah you CAN do it, but that doesn't mean you SHOULD.

 

I just went and creeped around a little. I saw he got hung up at an intersection in New Jersey. And I watched the long video talking about WV long enough to know that the wreckers cost him $8k.

 

Why would he post that #### on the internet?

 

Looks like he posts everything. He had one talking about how much his pilot cars cost and what the bucket truck cost him in NJ. I guess he’s one of those guys that puts everything on social media for some reason.

 

There’s probably a reason we drop south and go through Kentucky when we are over 15’. They usually don’t get very creative because we are legal width. Been running the same route for years at 15’2” tall.

 

Schnable trailers are out of the question for a load like that, not
Necessary nor practical. In my limited opinion, @Rontonio would Know a lot more.


Lots of guys suggested the load should be on a steerable in the comments, even one of the big wigs at Dagen, who runs a bunch of steerable trailers. Don’t get me wrong they are pretty sweet. But they are stupid heavy and crazy expensive.

I talked to a guy pulling a new Famonville Megamax, which is the type of trailer that would Have prevented this issue. A steerable 55ish ton stretch is over $400k and his empty weight was 75k with a 4 axle truck. That’s double the cost and 20k heavier then a comparable none steering trailer.

 

I am 60k empty as a non steerable 55 ton stretch like I am today - 46’ in the well right now 15’6’ tall 15’ 4” wide 99’ overall

Last week pulling a steerable with 48’ of deck open to 68’ in the well I was 79k empty

after watching the video - a steerable would have done the trick fairly easy

price of trailer difference significant 200k non steerable new versus $500k steerable

using s schnabel trailer would be problematic in making the connections on either end and it is no clear if the load is structural to use a schnabel

wind towers work because the are very strong and very standardized as far flanges for using the hydraulic fingers to lift and support the towers,

transport national, I think has some schnabel for silos but they would custom designed for a particular manufacturer - my best guess.

could maybe have put it on a low pro step stretch if height wasn’t a major issues to get it down from the mine.


Most likely the customer did not want to pay for the correct equipment - think 3 times the cost or more

hope this helps

 

Very insightful. Is that a transmaster?

 

yes it is - 3axle jeep and booster not shown - can go 75’ in the well