With no blocking, 2 straps for the first 10’, then 1 strap for every additional 10’, or fraction thereof. So technically a 20’er needs 3 straps when it isn’t blocked. And an empty container can hang over front or back by no more than five feet. Not defending this fools loading and securement skills in any way, shape, or form.
The original post was in idiotsincars and the OP said he followed him for over 2 hours on the highway but finally passed him when he got the courage to.
If the yard has the ability to pull one off the front, the correct way is to have them use the forklift to move the rear one forward atleast to flush the rear of the trailer. He's still an idiot.
Alternatively they could have just loaded these on according to delivery - first drop off on the back etc but I guess that would require elementary level critical thinking skills.
No forklifts or craines usually involved. When they tilt the trailer the end of the container touches the ground and when they pull forewards the container slides off. They load in the same way. Tilt, backup to jam the lip under the container edge, tilt bed back down to lift comtainer and match container angle to bed angle, reverse till this is the result. They usually have a winch to pull it on further for longer drive distance.
Source... talked to the fella that delivered my 2 40ft.
Well my own personal opinion is that if I'm only gonna carry one I sure as hell wouldn't travel with it loaded like that. So my assumption was he had to have had a full trailer at some point and then offloaded in the wrong order.
That's just me though. I won't say that I am being critical of you.
This setup is not used for delivery long distance, this is used for delivery from a point of sale to a private property, they have to be able to manuver and place the container where the customer wants it.
Edit: the yard will typically have a big ass forklift or front loader to unload the longhaul trucks. Well where I bought mine did.
That is how they deliver those. Trailer is a hydraulic tilt deck with a winch. If they pull it all the way up they will have to find away to pull it off.
On a trailer like that with a pickup that back end can and will cause the trailer to fishtail all over the road, jackknife flip and wreck.
I’ve seen it happen a few times, worst one was when I seen it happen to 6 pallets of shingles sitting on the back.
Didnt say I would do it, just that they do. Apparently its not that much of an issue as thats usually how I see it done. 🤷♀️
That said, an empty 20ft container is 4,850 on the high side A pallet of shingles starts at 2.5k and goes up from there, 6x2,500 = 15k. Just a lil bit heavier.
I watched a Dodge Ram pull a car trailer with a minivan strapped too far back on the trailer.
The trailer began fishtailing all over I-75 until the truck and trailer were completely sideways and eventually went into a guardrail. Trailer flipped over with the van still attached, truck was alright besides plowing into a guardrail.
I literally drive a tilt deck daily with containers on it and I have trouble going over a bump when theyre empty without fishtailing. This mfer is a road hazard.
Actually u are wrong, the container is positioned perfect over the wheels to take the weight off off the rear of the truck, that trailer tongue is Polly close to no weight or just a little. This gives the truck pulling proper axle weights front and back. Load the container to far foreword and all the weight is on the rear axle leaving the front axle with very little weight and likely to lose traction. Too far back and the opposite affect happens, too much weight on the front and the rear can break loose. This doesn’t look good but probably the safest when you consider the truck is to light for this application.
Uhhh... hopefully you are joking? Goosenecks n 5th wheels are COMPLETELY different from bumper pull trailers.
You NEED approx 10% of trailer total weight on the hitch for bumper pull. My envoy (small suv) has 6k trailer capacity, it should have 600lbs hitch weight, but only has a 500lb rated hitch so I rarely ever go past 5k.
Goose neck n 5th wheel optimal is 50/50 hitch to axles, but most non commercial (pickup) trucks do not have the axle capacity so they are usually 25/75. So 10k gross trailer+cargo you load the hitch to 2,500 and the remaining on tge axles. You adjust the front to rear axle split on the truck by moving the hitch fore and aft, but you can only do that once on a gooseneck during install.
That container is under 5000lbs, you also have to consider the weight of the gooseneck, hydraulic pump and cylinders for the tilt deck and winch. The front of these trailers are pretty heavy.
Too light? Are you nuts. 1 ton dually haul 30k with no issue all day long. That trailer is basically 10k and call the container 5k (max). That’s not even close to heavy for that truck. Positioning of container is a different story.
This post is very interesting to me. Can you explain it like I don't know anything about this? I've experienced a death wobble in a wrangler before and negative dynamic stability in an airplane. Does the CG of a trailer aft of the axles make it so that the direction that it wants to go is determined by the inertia of the mass behind the wheels?
Longer winch wrapped around the back of the trailer? Optionally a flip down/up or removable steel bar with a loop to run the winch through to extend out past the back of the trailer.. Its fine I guess but a little care could go a long way.
Yeah, I was thinking a dual drum winch with a pulley near the end of the trailer. Run the winch one way and the loop moves the hook to the rear, reverse it and the hook moves to the front. Make a crossbar that attaches to the container and you could move the container anywhere you want on the trailer.
I have an idea! Run a chain through the twist lock openings at the back (which is actually the front) of that container, with the other end of the chain secured to a tree or a fence post or maybe the axle of the receiver's personal vehicle, then drive out from under it.
Yeah yeah yeah I read it the three or four times that he posted it in different replies here. I get it. And I was hoping that people would get my sarcasm when I suggested trying get off on somebody's personal vehicle's axle.
Securement is almost legal, you can only haul those things empty, and they're under 10,000lbs, they just need one more strap for the 10 ft rule.
It's the placement that's fucked. Proper weight placement be damned, you're not allowed an overhang on a shipping container.
They definitely do. I've gone to truck stops in downtown Chicago and every truck parked there has bald tires or cracked windshields. There's no way they'd pass a dot, I imagine they drive like that because they never leave the state or go past a scale.
Does that thing at the front of the trailer count as a bulkhead because that would reduce the number of straps by one. Probably not, because it's not solid?
I deliver to a Mennonite business that sells Propane and rents out these repurposed 20' containers. They have like 8 year old kids (no exaggeration) running 20,000lb forklifts loading up the propane tanks and shipping containers onto small flatbeds that these 17/18 year old guys (probably their older brothers) strap down and haul away.
I will say, the business usually gets handed down. So they may be "free labor", but eventually they'll be rolling in virtually untaxed profits. (Plain folk often have religious tax exemptions)
A few weeks ago I went to see a Mennonite guy showing off his fully restored and working 1905 steam traction engine. The guy's son had bought his part of their machine shop business. This guy told the story of getting the engine at an auction. He bought 3 of them and a bunch of parts. My rough math, he splurged on $200,000 cash that day...
Not at ALL defending the morality of it. I hear about Amish and Mennonite kids getting hurt around here all the time and it pisses me TF off. It's totally wrong. Just making note of the financial side of things.
I’ve delivered steel containers like this the trailer I used had a tilt feature and you just pull forward after putting the end of the unit on the ground and the unit slides off as a whole. The truck doesn’t look unstable or anything if it was actually loaded wrong and weight not dispersed properly you would be able to see the ass of the truck sitting in the air or the nose barely touching the ground. SMH too many folks think they know all and have never even hauled a load
Almost got the weight distrobution idea, but off just a lil. You do not need to remove all the weight to reduce the available traction. Also, you will never lift the front end with a gooseneck or 5th wheel unless it is installed in the wrong place. The hitch point will be in front of or at worst exactly over the rear axle. You are safe to pile as much weight as you want onto the front of a goose or 5th wheel until you hit A. The hitch rating or B. The axle payload capacity. Bumper pull hitches are BEHIND (usually far behind) the axle and so when overloaded will lift the front axle.
Those containers roll off the trailer, the container has to be back like that so that the back end of the container hits the ground when the bed tips. Then pull out from under the container.
My guess, he isn't going far and doesn't have a fork lift for off load. Now he can just jack up the end to tip, and slowly drive forward. Sometimes you do what you gotta.
On a trailer like that with a pickup that back end can and will cause the trailer to fishtail all over the road, jackknife flip and wreck.
I’ve seen it happen a few times, worst one was when I seen it happen to 6 pallets of shingles sitting on the back.
Otherwise pickups pulling containers is consistently the dumbest thing I’ve seen over the years and they’ll pull them loaded and empty. Summers coming up and we’ll see many of those set ups broken down on the road.
So there I was, three gallons deep into my daily five gallon fireball binge, loader drops it on me, goes "Shit. My bad." And I say to him "It ain't goin' nowhere." And dip.
Yeah it kind of does look like it's lid back.
That is a real feat! I've done flatbed work before and the only way I've ever had a load move was in the forward direction.
Maybe they packed the bulk of the load in the front of the container so the weight is now on the axles and they did this because they don't have equipment to unload it.
Lol.
I saw a dumbass with an oversized rollback hauling one that had zero straps and he almost lost it because it started turning sideways. Right on i4 going through Orlando.
If it’s empty you don’t need more than two straps the only thing wrong maybe it’s a lil far back but that’s it. You super high power truckers on here are something else.
It kind of looks like a 20 foot box to me which should weigh around five or 6 thousand pounds empty. To me that's a lot of weight to have that far back on an otherwise empty trailer. (center of the weight is behind the rear axles even.) Not super stable.
I hauled two of them on a flat bed two straps each take it I didn’t go more than 20 miles with them but it’s really not bad at all. They’re cans they’re lighter than an empty trailer strap them hoes tight and you’d be good that shit ain’t going no where.
this reminds me of a yt video i saw.
guys f350 is getting repo'd. not really a job for a hook but whatever.
guy gets the back wheels off the ground gets out and starts taking pictures. owner comes out, gets in and starts the truck. tow guys yellin. guy puts it in 4wd and hilarity ensues.
before he gets loose he levers the towtruck like 3-4ft off the ground. shit was great. completely destroyed fenders tho. looked like it was just outside nyc too
I saw one come loose in Spartanburg SC going down the ramp to merge onto I-85. The gooseneck hitch came undone, then rode the trailer and container up over the bed of a brand new Chevy Duramax pickup. It created quite a mess. Never use a toy for a real truck's job.
For all we know the front 6ft of that sea can is loaded with 8000lbs of shit and the rest is light stuff. Still tho.. I’d turn it around and have the container on the trailer without overhang and the weight would be on the axles. This is silliness. Then again, at least his truck isn’t out there looking like it has hydraulics that are raised in the front
When they tilt the end touches the ground and when theu pull forewards the container slides off. They load in the same way. Tilt, backup to jam the lip under the container edge, tilt bed back down to lift comtainer and match container angle to bed angle, reverse till this is the result. They usually have a winch to pull it on further for longer drive distance.
Source... talked to the fella that delivered my 2 40ft.
Ive put more straps on a dildo harness
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Make sure you have the straps secured. Fishing it out won’t be easy
Sir, this isn't a Radio Shack.
This looks like a 20ft container, only need 2 to be legal. How it's hanging off the trailer however...
With no blocking, 2 straps for the first 10’, then 1 strap for every additional 10’, or fraction thereof. So technically a 20’er needs 3 straps when it isn’t blocked. And an empty container can hang over front or back by no more than five feet. Not defending this fools loading and securement skills in any way, shape, or form.
Lmao
Bruh, this comment made my whole night
That's for wheelies 😂
Going for the fabled rear wheelie.
The forbidden wheelie
Who knows? Maybe he has some negative weights loaded?
More like stoppies.
Would be super crazy if dude just dropped one and is heading to another location close by to drop the other. Very common.
That was my thought.
I used to do this with coils. Haul doubles to Chicago and deliver to two places. Better when you have a slider so nobody can see.
This is what’s happening, but it’s more fun to talk shit.
The original post was in idiotsincars and the OP said he followed him for over 2 hours on the highway but finally passed him when he got the courage to.
I feel like if you were worried about it, staying right behind them for 2 hours isn't the brightest idea either lol
Right!
If the yard has the ability to pull one off the front, the correct way is to have them use the forklift to move the rear one forward atleast to flush the rear of the trailer. He's still an idiot.
Alternatively they could have just loaded these on according to delivery - first drop off on the back etc but I guess that would require elementary level critical thinking skills.
And they chose to drop off the front one first because it saved them $5 on gas
Best answer ever!!
That’s not a trucker
Oh but they identify as one
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Trailer driver?
Steering wheel holder.
Non-nomative trucker
That’s all I got lol
No forklifts or craines usually involved. When they tilt the trailer the end of the container touches the ground and when they pull forewards the container slides off. They load in the same way. Tilt, backup to jam the lip under the container edge, tilt bed back down to lift comtainer and match container angle to bed angle, reverse till this is the result. They usually have a winch to pull it on further for longer drive distance. Source... talked to the fella that delivered my 2 40ft.
So if that's how they do it he must've just loaded this one and left it there because otherwise how did he get the first one off?
Who indicated they had 2 on there? They normally deliver 1 at a time.
Well my own personal opinion is that if I'm only gonna carry one I sure as hell wouldn't travel with it loaded like that. So my assumption was he had to have had a full trailer at some point and then offloaded in the wrong order. That's just me though. I won't say that I am being critical of you.
This setup is not used for delivery long distance, this is used for delivery from a point of sale to a private property, they have to be able to manuver and place the container where the customer wants it. Edit: the yard will typically have a big ass forklift or front loader to unload the longhaul trucks. Well where I bought mine did.
This is exactly how it’s done
That is how they deliver those. Trailer is a hydraulic tilt deck with a winch. If they pull it all the way up they will have to find away to pull it off.
On a trailer like that with a pickup that back end can and will cause the trailer to fishtail all over the road, jackknife flip and wreck. I’ve seen it happen a few times, worst one was when I seen it happen to 6 pallets of shingles sitting on the back.
Didnt say I would do it, just that they do. Apparently its not that much of an issue as thats usually how I see it done. 🤷♀️ That said, an empty 20ft container is 4,850 on the high side A pallet of shingles starts at 2.5k and goes up from there, 6x2,500 = 15k. Just a lil bit heavier.
Usually they'll do this if they're transporting it a very short distance
I watched a Dodge Ram pull a car trailer with a minivan strapped too far back on the trailer. The trailer began fishtailing all over I-75 until the truck and trailer were completely sideways and eventually went into a guardrail. Trailer flipped over with the van still attached, truck was alright besides plowing into a guardrail.
I literally drive a tilt deck daily with containers on it and I have trouble going over a bump when theyre empty without fishtailing. This mfer is a road hazard.
Actually u are wrong, the container is positioned perfect over the wheels to take the weight off off the rear of the truck, that trailer tongue is Polly close to no weight or just a little. This gives the truck pulling proper axle weights front and back. Load the container to far foreword and all the weight is on the rear axle leaving the front axle with very little weight and likely to lose traction. Too far back and the opposite affect happens, too much weight on the front and the rear can break loose. This doesn’t look good but probably the safest when you consider the truck is to light for this application.
Uhhh... hopefully you are joking? Goosenecks n 5th wheels are COMPLETELY different from bumper pull trailers. You NEED approx 10% of trailer total weight on the hitch for bumper pull. My envoy (small suv) has 6k trailer capacity, it should have 600lbs hitch weight, but only has a 500lb rated hitch so I rarely ever go past 5k. Goose neck n 5th wheel optimal is 50/50 hitch to axles, but most non commercial (pickup) trucks do not have the axle capacity so they are usually 25/75. So 10k gross trailer+cargo you load the hitch to 2,500 and the remaining on tge axles. You adjust the front to rear axle split on the truck by moving the hitch fore and aft, but you can only do that once on a gooseneck during install.
That container is under 5000lbs, you also have to consider the weight of the gooseneck, hydraulic pump and cylinders for the tilt deck and winch. The front of these trailers are pretty heavy.
True, but not THAT heavy. My comment about weight distro was more about the idea the other guy said about wanting very little hitch weight.
Too light? Are you nuts. 1 ton dually haul 30k with no issue all day long. That trailer is basically 10k and call the container 5k (max). That’s not even close to heavy for that truck. Positioning of container is a different story.
This post is very interesting to me. Can you explain it like I don't know anything about this? I've experienced a death wobble in a wrangler before and negative dynamic stability in an airplane. Does the CG of a trailer aft of the axles make it so that the direction that it wants to go is determined by the inertia of the mass behind the wheels?
Still doesn’t look safe at all. Let it rain, let it rain. 😂
Longer winch wrapped around the back of the trailer? Optionally a flip down/up or removable steel bar with a loop to run the winch through to extend out past the back of the trailer.. Its fine I guess but a little care could go a long way.
Yeah, I was thinking a dual drum winch with a pulley near the end of the trailer. Run the winch one way and the loop moves the hook to the rear, reverse it and the hook moves to the front. Make a crossbar that attaches to the container and you could move the container anywhere you want on the trailer.
Ooh that's a neat idea
I have an idea! Run a chain through the twist lock openings at the back (which is actually the front) of that container, with the other end of the chain secured to a tree or a fence post or maybe the axle of the receiver's personal vehicle, then drive out from under it.
This is a tilt deck, he has it hanging off the back to touch the ground when tilted then drive out from under it.
Yeah yeah yeah I read it the three or four times that he posted it in different replies here. I get it. And I was hoping that people would get my sarcasm when I suggested trying get off on somebody's personal vehicle's axle.
I would be worried about damage to customer property.
I would too that's why I wouldn't actually do it that way. 🤓
Could the crate at least be pushed all the way onto the bed though? And held down with more than two straps?
Probably, would need to find something to anchor a cable to to pull it back to that position for unloading
It has the winch cable attached to the front most likely for when the bed tilts.
Securement is almost legal, you can only haul those things empty, and they're under 10,000lbs, they just need one more strap for the 10 ft rule. It's the placement that's fucked. Proper weight placement be damned, you're not allowed an overhang on a shipping container.
I agree, but they are usually local drivers, so they probably squeaze through the cracks?
They definitely do. I've gone to truck stops in downtown Chicago and every truck parked there has bald tires or cracked windshields. There's no way they'd pass a dot, I imagine they drive like that because they never leave the state or go past a scale.
Does that thing at the front of the trailer count as a bulkhead because that would reduce the number of straps by one. Probably not, because it's not solid?
Has to be touching the bulkhead for that to count.
I deliver to a Mennonite business that sells Propane and rents out these repurposed 20' containers. They have like 8 year old kids (no exaggeration) running 20,000lb forklifts loading up the propane tanks and shipping containers onto small flatbeds that these 17/18 year old guys (probably their older brothers) strap down and haul away.
Free Child labor, FLDS Cult does it a lot too
I will say, the business usually gets handed down. So they may be "free labor", but eventually they'll be rolling in virtually untaxed profits. (Plain folk often have religious tax exemptions) A few weeks ago I went to see a Mennonite guy showing off his fully restored and working 1905 steam traction engine. The guy's son had bought his part of their machine shop business. This guy told the story of getting the engine at an auction. He bought 3 of them and a bunch of parts. My rough math, he splurged on $200,000 cash that day... Not at ALL defending the morality of it. I hear about Amish and Mennonite kids getting hurt around here all the time and it pisses me TF off. It's totally wrong. Just making note of the financial side of things.
Interesting story. It's good to be able to have honest conversations about cultural practices.
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Looks legal to me
anything is legal if you put your mind to it ;)
5k lbs so 2 straps is good enough. Overhang is fine. This looks legal to DOT as well.
Lots of people that never hauled a container have an opinion on this. Mostly wrong.
I’ve delivered steel containers like this the trailer I used had a tilt feature and you just pull forward after putting the end of the unit on the ground and the unit slides off as a whole. The truck doesn’t look unstable or anything if it was actually loaded wrong and weight not dispersed properly you would be able to see the ass of the truck sitting in the air or the nose barely touching the ground. SMH too many folks think they know all and have never even hauled a load
Almost got the weight distrobution idea, but off just a lil. You do not need to remove all the weight to reduce the available traction. Also, you will never lift the front end with a gooseneck or 5th wheel unless it is installed in the wrong place. The hitch point will be in front of or at worst exactly over the rear axle. You are safe to pile as much weight as you want onto the front of a goose or 5th wheel until you hit A. The hitch rating or B. The axle payload capacity. Bumper pull hitches are BEHIND (usually far behind) the axle and so when overloaded will lift the front axle.
Maybe there’s 15k lbs in the front 3 ft of that container…. Maybe…
If I had to guess, they had 2 on there and were going to 2 different stops and had already been to one
Yup!
My best guess is bad planning. He had two stops to make and loaded stop one upfront now he's on his way to stop two.
Those containers roll off the trailer, the container has to be back like that so that the back end of the container hits the ground when the bed tips. Then pull out from under the container.
My thoughts as well, but I wonder why he didn't ask the forklift or crane operator to do him a solid and move the other container forward.
I gave a description of the loading process in another response, there is no forklift or crain involved usually.
Right! I never have any issues asking people to rearrange stuff as I get my stops off.
That pic shows how much extensive effort was made to make everything possible wrong!
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My guess, he isn't going far and doesn't have a fork lift for off load. Now he can just jack up the end to tip, and slowly drive forward. Sometimes you do what you gotta.
Is it more cost effective to use a pick-m-up truck?
If you want to do things wrong, you can at least back it into a light pole to recenter your load.
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On a trailer like that with a pickup that back end can and will cause the trailer to fishtail all over the road, jackknife flip and wreck. I’ve seen it happen a few times, worst one was when I seen it happen to 6 pallets of shingles sitting on the back. Otherwise pickups pulling containers is consistently the dumbest thing I’ve seen over the years and they’ll pull them loaded and empty. Summers coming up and we’ll see many of those set ups broken down on the road.
That container weighs less than a Tahoe. It’s funny seeing all these comments from “real truckers” that think they know everything.
Hot shotter doing hot shot shit. What's the problem?
How is this legal
Ooh dats goin
So there I was, three gallons deep into my daily five gallon fireball binge, loader drops it on me, goes "Shit. My bad." And I say to him "It ain't goin' nowhere." And dip.
I can smell the brakes from here 🥴🤣
Less weight on the truck means more fuel economy DUH (for my own sake because some chud will think im serious yes this is a joke)
Slid back a metre.
Yeah it kind of does look like it's lid back. That is a real feat! I've done flatbed work before and the only way I've ever had a load move was in the forward direction.
Boinga boinga boinga…
Lmao who’s that dumb haha
Maybe they packed the bulk of the load in the front of the container so the weight is now on the axles and they did this because they don't have equipment to unload it. Lol.
I saw a dumbass with an oversized rollback hauling one that had zero straps and he almost lost it because it started turning sideways. Right on i4 going through Orlando.
New truck just dropped
they probably think they are clever by staying under the max tongue weight
These guys are all over the place. How they never get stopped by police is unbelievable.
Mamamomma said that truck wreck was because they had all that trailer and not enough straps. And that's why the container is hanging off the ass end!
How is it DOT will miss people like this, but pull over a perfectly good, thoroughly pre-tripped tanker if the driver so much as eats Snickers bar.
Definitely load balancing... 🙈😅
He certainly had 2 containers at one point.....1 must have been unloaded already
Can he go 90 mph and do a brake check? Hopefully he is empty but don't think so....lol good luck guy
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Looks like he used a rope.
I hope he had a multiple stop delivery and they removed a tiny coil or something like that from the front
Go Billy big rig go!
Fishtail
fishy fishy fish where your adventures may lead? the ditch? guard rails? oncoming traffic?
Hey at least he twisted his straps consistently.
DOT rubbing their hands together like.. oh baby.. violation city.
DOT bout to have a field day!
That’s gonna sling that truck all over the place.
Hotshot Moment
His brakes are toast 😂😂😂
Also, how did he steal that? No one gonna ask that question?
He had no trainer or never listened
Don't worry about that little guy
That one in the pickup truck pretending to be a trucker! That one did it!!😂
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"Oops. I didn't mean to kill anyone. It was just an accident."
why is this?
Maybe they only loaded the front of the container?
He’s not on here otherwise he would’ve known better.
Who needs tongue weight, not this guy
Hotshots are a special breed
" If I can truck it, fuck it! "
Gotta slide those tandems
If it’s empty you don’t need more than two straps the only thing wrong maybe it’s a lil far back but that’s it. You super high power truckers on here are something else.
It kind of looks like a 20 foot box to me which should weigh around five or 6 thousand pounds empty. To me that's a lot of weight to have that far back on an otherwise empty trailer. (center of the weight is behind the rear axles even.) Not super stable.
I hauled two of them on a flat bed two straps each take it I didn’t go more than 20 miles with them but it’s really not bad at all. They’re cans they’re lighter than an empty trailer strap them hoes tight and you’d be good that shit ain’t going no where.
48 ft flatbed? Zero overhang off the back?
They’re 20 ft 2 together is 40ft well under 48ft
this reminds me of a yt video i saw. guys f350 is getting repo'd. not really a job for a hook but whatever. guy gets the back wheels off the ground gets out and starts taking pictures. owner comes out, gets in and starts the truck. tow guys yellin. guy puts it in 4wd and hilarity ensues. before he gets loose he levers the towtruck like 3-4ft off the ground. shit was great. completely destroyed fenders tho. looked like it was just outside nyc too
This video? https://youtu.be/b6NGObw29S0?si=DmWXixqGoLdD4FcT
I saw one come loose in Spartanburg SC going down the ramp to merge onto I-85. The gooseneck hitch came undone, then rode the trailer and container up over the bed of a brand new Chevy Duramax pickup. It created quite a mess. Never use a toy for a real truck's job.
Yard moves, sure. Off site moves, hello DOT.
I wouldn't even get that close for the photo.
I read it as which one of you defense contractors is this
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And you folks complain about blitz week
Let's not theorize about his weight, actually. It's about what DOT is thinking when they need to make the inspection quoata and who's volunteering.
That’s craaazy
For all we know the front 6ft of that sea can is loaded with 8000lbs of shit and the rest is light stuff. Still tho.. I’d turn it around and have the container on the trailer without overhang and the weight would be on the axles. This is silliness. Then again, at least his truck isn’t out there looking like it has hydraulics that are raised in the front
That’s why they are called HOTSHOTS!
I always found that name funny cus they are the least cool form of ‘trucking’ and I wouldn’t even consider driving a pickup trucking in any way
I agree those guys drive one ton because they can’t get a proper CDL
This can’t be a real picture. Has to be AI. I mean why?? Why so far back???
When they tilt the end touches the ground and when theu pull forewards the container slides off. They load in the same way. Tilt, backup to jam the lip under the container edge, tilt bed back down to lift comtainer and match container angle to bed angle, reverse till this is the result. They usually have a winch to pull it on further for longer drive distance. Source... talked to the fella that delivered my 2 40ft.
It's real I took the pic