Why Do moving companies have so many custom super sleepers?

I wondered if the crew goes with the truck at times. Maybe not?

 

I used to do multi picks in NYC and North Jersey and would camp out at the capri motor lodge on rt 46 in little ferry nj .
the bed buggers stayed there too... had some nice rides !...always fun to bs with and had a cooler full of beer in the trailer while folding blankets.

 

I’m about 24k bobtail. Chains and binders ride with the truck -10 of each, 40 gallons water, 300 gallons fuel.

And a partridge in the pear tree.

 

I just don't understand how they can maneuver that big of a truck and trailer through residential neighborhoods.

More power to them.

 

That’s not bad, I’m 23,600 with 300 gallons of fuel on board. I just have a lot of gear in the rack.

 

I don't even know how you drive those super sleepers in cities and whatnot. Making a turn must be next to impossible.

 

Hey, don't give me any ***t about my big 32" sleeper. This was my first truck in New Products in 1976.

 

Sometimes they don’t. Buddy of mine worked for Graebel in Seattle and sometimes they would offload the semi-trailer at their warehouse and deliver to a customers house using straight jobs. Some of those neighborhoods you’d never get into with a big truck.

 

Big sleepers are because they spend so much time between loads. That big moving truck may have content from several families. Brokers line up several familes roughly going in the same direction. While that is being organized by the broker the driver is waiting..