doublewide
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that's what I'm doing now, but after dumping the load I have to close the tailgate to travel home. I can't lift it back closed by myself and there's no equipment available to help.
Greg
I had a 14' low sided single axle dump that had an OX Body with 2 way gate. You could swing it open to dump trash - worked great. Wish I had that truck back...
Unsecured load ? Had a piece of road debris slice through my radiator years ago on I20 in Georgia. Could have killed me if it was a few inches higher.
As long as your bed is empty I don't now of a reg that requires the tailgate up. We do like td25c with our dump trucks but usually chain them so they are tipped up a bit. No knife edge if someone tries to drive under you. Whatever we are hauling slides out with the box fully up.
Safest way, ask your local motor carrier / commercial enforcement officer.
Also try :https://www.oxbodies.com/contact/general-informationthanks, doublewide. I'll put in a call to them.
A high lift gate works good for brush. They started ordering them for hauling rock with dump trailers. Have a couple tandems with them and they open up wide and don't hold the brush in.
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I had a HardOx round demo bed with a high lift gate on a Mack tri-axle before the depression, unfortunately had to get rid of it in '09, it was an '06 Granite with Allison Auto and MP7. Hoss of a truck.
The high lift gates work the best IMO but would be expensive to retrofit an existing dump bed. I would like to have another dump truck but struggling justifying not only the purchase price but the insurance and other O&O costs that go along with it.