What are yall hauling with stretched frame trucks?

Thank you. It’s a work in progress.
1992 mechanical N-14, RTLO16913, Flex Air with 3.36’s, Meritor steer axle on air ride.

 

Good looking 359, appears to be a corvette dash….

 

Yup. It’s a 1987, so last year for the 359 and Corvette/tombstone dash.
It’s not a numbered truck, but it is a glider. Eight digit serial number instead of a seventeen digit VIN.

 

10-4 on the glider. My 95 W900L is a glider, insurance company had questions about the missing numbers in the vin lol…..

 

Stretched Pete? Nope, no more Petes. During Covid our local Pete dealer turned into a greedy, grasping, money hungry SOB but our KW dealer treated us right. When it came time for new trucks the choice was easy. How about a stretched T-800 and a forty five foot flat?
Rebar, roof trusses, pre-cast concrete objects, more rebar, lots of green lumber, crane booms, railroad car frames, steel beams, phone poles, power poles, poles for a ship mast, more rebar, empty flat bed trailers, grain silo segments, jeeps, humvees, bus frames, firewood, big hay bales, little hay bales, round hay bales, (all hay loads used clip on bed extensions front and back) earth mover tires, earth mover wheels, logging yarder boom, ski lift tower segments, railroad tracks, more rebar...you get the picture. Notice none of this stuff gets tarped?
If it's legal, or close to it depending on where you are and where you want to go and you can tie it down tight enough that it won't fall off you take the load and go.
It's a very simple business.

 

Basically anything with a king pin

 

The most sense for that are flatbed loads that will hang over.

You have to really know where you're going with that truck before you even think about trying to stretch it out.

I'm in the Northeast and I've been to places where there is literally barely enough room to just get a regular size truck with a 53 ft trailer in.

I've been to places where guys have struggled and struggled with those trucks because it's not practical at all unless you know exactly where you're going everyday.

So choose carefully.

Everybody has to do what they have to do, but myself, I'd much rather have a full size truck that rides beautifully that I can sneak right in and out of anywhere with no problems whatsoever.

I'm much more impressed that the mighty FLD can back in and turn sharper than any truck I've ever been in my life than I would be impressed by some truck with a long wheelbase that you have to wrestle with constantly.

No offense to anybody, I know it looks cool to you, but when you watch guys wrestle with trucks like that everyday I don't think it's cool.

It's like a thousand pound Harley Davidson with drag pipes is probably the coolest thing in the world.

Wrestle with a motorcycle like that with small 5 minute trips around town, and you'll be looking to get rid of that thing instantaneously.

Function is always superior to cool when you're working.

But everyone has to do what they do, enjoy yourself.

Stretch it to the moon if you like.

Don't forget all the chicken lights. You can't stretch anything unless you havr a thousand chicken lights and you look like a UFO at night.

 

All Depends on where you’re at and what you’re hauling .
I made 12-16 stops a day in Atlanta with this rig
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I wanted the most un-stretched tightest turning rig I could find that still had a bed so I could log time in the sleeper .