What's the point of a 14ft high dry van

I purchased a 53 ft dry van about a year ago, and just recently found out it's 14 ft high vs the regular 13"6. I think it's crazy i didnt know about it during purchase but anyways here I am. I run i5 so not too worried about hitting bridges but I am just extremely curious what's the point of it. Thanks

 

i dunno...but that thing wouldn't fly well here in New England..!!!!

 

I run 13"9 all over the northeast for the last 3 years and never had in issue.

 

But that's because of tall 24.5s.

Op do you have a higher than normal 5th wheel?

 

whatever

 

No my fifth wheel is standard, but the actual measurements, it's classified as 14 ft. It's a 2012 utility 53 ft food grade plated dry van.

 

Thank you

 

Ahh ok. Out west from what I've heard that's actually a common height

 

Yeah Ive heard that before I'm curious as to why though? Like what is being hauled that needs the extra height? It's just a curiosity lol

 

Hauling empty cans and stuff they can get an extra row on each pallet. A lot of the fleets with a west coast presence will have 14ft trailers floating around and will cube them out on dedicated accounts if the product can be packaged differently than a 13’6” trailer.

 

Kind of like why drop deck vans are very common in automotive work. The trailer gets filled up way before it gets overweight.