Weight limitations for flat beds

If you are willing to pay a fair rate it won't be a problem finding a carrier or broker to handle all of the logistics for you. Check the yellow pages.

 

Isn't every one of that dudes posts the same?

 

It just isn't worth a 20 post back and forth to prove something I know the be true.

 

Here's a set of heavy 20's that just passed me.

 

Ayup. Specially when a simple google search has hundreds of pictures and links to something: something that "doesn't exist".

 

You are correct, and I stand corrected as far as the existence of 20' high cube. I Googled it, and came up with manufacturers of 20' high cube. I searched again to see if railroads used them, and I could not find an affirmative answer to that. The closest to an actual answer was a CMA/CGM website, and they do not list high cube 20s as an available shipping option. I can't imagine that the railroads would use them as they stack a single 40 or 45 on top of 2 20s, which would need to be the same height. They do not stack 20s on top of 40s because there are only 4 locks on top of 40s, and 2 20s need 8 locks.

So for all intents and purposes, even if 20' high cubes exist, they are not used for intermodal shipping in the US.

 

They don't have to go on a train.

 

So... do you mean to say that if a high cube exists somewhere, anywhere, in the US... nothing was shipped there in it? I think I'm confused. Not that my confusion is something entirely unheard of...

And... You know that railroads do ship containers... without stacking them? No idea how often, or what the reasons are, but it happens a lot!

 

Boeing uses all different sizes of containers that are none standard. They are shipped by rail, ship, and we even haul them on trucks and strech trailers.

 

I must eat crow. I saw over 1,000 20 footers today. All of the ones I saw at BNSF, Elwood were standards. But near my delivery, there is a trailer/container dealer, and they had a high cube 20.