to all end dump haulers...

Welcoming @Jsharp074 hope you enjoy the challenge of pulling a frameless like the rest of us do. And you come back to tell us plenty of stories

 

I will be hauling sand gravel xout for pacing outfit 30'+ long end dump frameless just the ram and box. Southern Idaho. Thanks to all who replied this site is very usefull and you boys are very helpful thanks for helping the newbies with end dumps. God bless yall

 

Welcome!
I can tell by the way my trailer looks in the mirror and how it feels which is somethings you'll learn after pulling a dump for a while. I also watch where the loader starts tipping his bucket along with physically looking at the load. I like to be loaded a certain way and politely ask the loader operator to load me the way I want it to ride. I also like it loaded heavier in the front as it's much easier to slide the load backwards if I'm over too much on my drives. I don't have a spread axle trailer so how I'm loaded is important. Frame trailers and frameless you lock the trailer brakes. Good luck!

 

Hope we run across each other I'll be around Panama City again first thing Monday but headed north from there.

 

Whats a spread axle I no drop and tag but not a spread

 

See the space between the two axles that is called a spread axle and you can load 40,000lbs. on the trailer axles instead of the 34,000lbs. on regular tandems

 

And for being over the road and based out of Kansas it’s the only kind of trailer I would wanna pull

 

Well it sounds like I’m gonna miss you hoping to be reloaded in Tate Ga by mid morning early afternoon

 

I've really never had an issue getting load so I can axle out but then I know how much goes where and most loader operators key word most will co-operate since I have been known to put the entire load back on the ground and make them start over. That makes them look really bad.

 

Here in Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma I can run 85,500 I know guys do it with a tandem but my luck I’d get pulled over by a dot with portables. And I really need to reconsider a tandem cause they do seem to be cheaper and easier to come across. Most of my trucking was flatbed so I’m used to spreads as long as a guy has a lift or dump for turning they seem to be easier to load but I’m sure with time I’d get used to loading a tandem as well