fireman050
Senior Member
i need advice on buying a 50 ton non ground bearing 3 axle lowboy
i need advice on buying a 50 ton non ground bearing 3 axle lowboy
i do want a hydro detach the biggest equipment i'll haul will be a 40 ton adt
the truck is a 1996 international eagle with a 3406 cat 455 hp engine 20,000 rears 12,000 front 3.73 spicer rears
what exactly is a adt?
murray, althought your trailers are very nice looking and appear to be very well built, the mech detach would be too time consuming for us. we work primarily within a 50 mile radius, move 3-4 pieces of equipment each job, and we might do this several times a week, we have a non ground bearing 3 ax challenger, i know not favored by many...but works great for us. i like being able to drop the trailer, pull the lowboy away, load/unload, back up, hookup and go.
aside from building trailers we also run 5 lowbed trucks in our fleet..our company started out as a lowbed trucking company in 1946..so after 61 years of doin it one way just kinda hard to understand other ways of doin it...the only loads we break down for are machines that wont crawl over the back of the trailer..so maybe one or two times a week our drivers have to break down (except on the 9 axle where ya have to break down for everything). most excavators and many rubber tired machines run right over the back with no ramps at all..chain down and go. I guess I am just use to the way it is done around here and rarely see a hydro goose neck in this part of the country.
A lot of them around here are going to hyd tails/ detaches. They run hydro tails and then a slope over the axles down to the deck. You can still detach to put low profile stuff on (pavers) and still get the low deck height but dont have to detach for everything
aside from building trailers we also run 5 lowbed trucks in our fleet..our company started out as a lowbed trucking company in 1946..so after 61 years of doin it one way just kinda hard to understand other ways of doin it...the only loads we break down for are machines that wont crawl over the back of the trailer..so maybe one or two times a week our drivers have to break down (except on the 9 axle where ya have to break down for everything). most excavators and many rubber tired machines run right over the back with no ramps at all..chain down and go. I guess I am just use to the way it is done around here and rarely see a hydro goose neck in this part of the country.