Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page.
We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy.
Thank you!
Ive never seen one of those transfer trucks that i posted in my life. I have seen some of the dumps with the tag axle that flips down.
The transfer trailers dont seem to practical to me, but i'm sure there must be a use for them or you wouldnt have them out there. Is the reason for them that you have to haul a long distance to get material? :usa
I don't know about these tranfer trucks, seems like allot of messing around to me. A dump trailer would seem more practical behind a dump truck?..:beatsme Some nice looking rigs just the same.
Try backing a dump trailer around a tight bend in town where you only need 1 1/2 truck loads of material hauled in and it can't be dumped down the road and hauled in with a small loader.
It all has to do with weight laws. There has to be a minimum distance between axles to carry weight and the pup trailers meet that requirement.
I took a trip to Michigan last year and I saw trucks set up there like I've never seen. Tandem trailers had the second fifth wheel built on to the rear of the first trailer with an extra axle, around here they have a separate fifth wheel dolly between the two trailers. I wonder if we'll ever see the day where all 48 states have the same weight laws?
Super Dumps are really popular in the KC because of different "zones" allowing different weights. There is a cement-not concrete- that has several W900S Super 16s and is in the process of building a T800W Super 18. Those are some big fuggin straight trucks. 5-star trucking-clever name since they started with all quint-axles- is starting to build super trucks too. Outside of KC, not many abounds.