Looooong commercial trailers

[rowilson]

Well over the weekend I passed by a local trailer manufacturer in Columbus Ohio that had the biggest commercial trailer I've ever seen hooked to a 2nd Gen 3500. It was not an overly long normal construction gooseneck type trailer. It was 57 feet long with no floor deck and the axles were spaced about 12 feet apart. I called them today to ask what it was and the salesman said that they made it for themselves to use. They use it to transport straight boxes for delevery trucks like HH Greg or Best Buy uses. It can handle two 24 foot boxes on it. The driver is out picking up a load and will be back later this week. I will try and get a picture of it and post it when it comes in. What's the longest or biggest load you've seen hauled by a Dodge pick-up?

 

[SGibson]

12 skids of versalok blocks (3800#ea. ) on a 8wheel deckover, w/a 2nd gen. 2500ctd, what a moron that guy was.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I may be wrong but,

With a few exceptions, most states allow semi trailers to be 48' to 53' long. Some restrict the 53's to the federal highway system. I would think 57' would need an oversize permit but the load would need to be long to require the extra length.



Two 24' boxes? I pulled ~60' steel beams with a stretch trailer years ago. On occasion, we would pick up structural steel floor joists which weighed fairly light but were short. So, we would open up the trailer, load two loads of joists and tarp it so it looked like one long load then run under the cover of darkness. Two for the price of one

 

[CSnyder]

I regularly pull a 44' deck over plate 30,000 trailer with my 2500. I never load it too heavy and it pulls like a bear empty but it works when I have a long load to deliver. I have on occasion pulled a 3 place car hauler also loaded with 3 vehicles.