Type of load versus trailer

Just about any load you can haul on a flatbed is hauled in vans also. Doesn’t make it a good idea, but it’s done all the time.

 

Bricks would probably be better off in. Dry van .. The problem comes when u show up to the delivery and they have no dock ramp to get in your trailer.. Alot of stuff is put on a flatbed because it is going to construction company or jobsite or. stuff that could only be sideloaded.. Any palletized stuff could be put in a van no problem... You could probably drive most palletized stuff on a flatbed with no securement and be fine .. But it is not legal to do that.. Dont really see the problem with bricks being in a van. They wont go flying thru the windshield when the pallet inevitably starts to break apart on a long trip

 

I have loaded bricks that were used to line furnaces. They way they were stacked left room for skinny forks to move them. Sometimes they were still warm fresh out of oven. But when I got to the other end did not have the right forks to unload.
Crew got up in van and did them one by one,

 

I've hauled bricks in a van many times. They load them down the center. The key is to have enough straps to go over every pallet and drive it like you don't have any straps at all...

 

You would not believe the kind of stuff I've seen shipped out in vans.

I've unloaded 53' vans loaded with construction machinery, some pieces weighing over 4000 lbs just banded down on pallets, no other securement. One hard brake application and there's over 40,000 lbs of steel that's going to come sailing through the front of the trailer.

 

I’ve seen people put all kinds of dumb #### in a dry van.

 

Same thing can be said for stuff put on a flatbed.