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Discussion in 'Truckers' Photo Shack | Art Gallery' started by I am medicineman, Jan 21, 2011.
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What do you call that setup in N. America? In the UK officially a lorry and drawbar trailer, but in driverspeak, wagon and drag.
This is an example which I think is no longer allowed, in France, instead of an A-frame drawbar it has a really big telescopic single bar, over a foot in diametre. Driving in a straight line the telly is fully retracted so as to keep the whole outfit within the legal limit. When you start to go round a corner the telly expands so that the 2 vehicles don't contact. But not quite, if you look closely at the top front of the trailer there is a light frame attachment. As the vehicle turns the front body pushes against that frame which is a trigger to extend the telescopic drawbar. Apparently the industry managed to convince the law makers that you can't blame them for being over length if you are bent in the middle.
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This was another European invention, again not used anymore. It was called a Tilt and roundly hated by drivers. If you think rolling all that side canvas up onto the roof and removing sideboards was easy, then spare a thought for those of us who had to be loaded/unloaded by crane. The whole canvas, both sides and roof, had to be rolled forward while tip toeing along those flimsy roof boards and lateral bars. If you were lucky a friendly crane driver (if it was a gantry) would hook it up at the rear and drag it forward. Still had to go up to move the roofboards and cross members though. Even when rebuilt, if loaded to cross a frontier a thick tape had to be laced all around it to be sealed by customs. Woe betide any driver that didn't make sure his load was safely secured, any breaking of that seal could cost you a whole day at the frontier.
BTW, just for extra fun, those side bays and the boards between them, weren't always of the same length, so it was necessary to keep them apart ready for replacing. Oh, what fun we had back in the '70s and '80s.
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This is a lot more easy on the poor driver. My last wagon in the mid '90s before emigrating to France. A Volvo FH12 380. Air suspension all round so that the demount bodies could be dropped and picked up. It is a curtainsider, the curtain of which, once all the tension straps were released could easily be slid back and fore just like, well, a curtain.
Designed by me it only had 2 jobs. Bringing large, full width, stillages from our weaving mill to the diehouse, 83 miles between Manchester and over the hills to Nottingham. Inside those curtains there are removable vertical box section steel bars so that the stillages, hard against them, couldn't move.
Its second job was delivering rolls of finished fabric throughout Britain and Ireland. They were loaded from a belt by hand in 4 stacks, again resting against the bars, so we never had need of ropes, straps, or chains. Multi drops it was loaded in strict delivery order bearing in mind that many small premises could not handle the trailer. Once the front body was empty, both bodies were jacked up on their legs and the wagon and trailer pulled forward until the trailer was under the front body. Dropped and attached to it it was moved to one side so that the wagon could pick up the former trailer body, Re-coupled and off, or left while deliveries were made with the front half.
Loading at Manchester was from a dock so the procedure was to back the whole thing onto it in a straight line. The rear doors on the front box, and both front and rear doors on the trailer one were alll opened and a fork truck drove inside with a specially designed steel bridging plate. Thus the whole 2 boxes could be loaded directly from the dock.Last edited: Dec 17, 2024
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Order has been restored in the universe. I'm back in a 717 based truck doing 717 type things.
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