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Just looking out the window and trying to work out how you put one articlated trailer on top of another one? I am talking about the flatbed ones that move plant etc.
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Assuming I've read your question properly. Three options for putting a trailer on a flat bed.
1) Back it on, drive off. 2) Drive on, then down a ramp (or usually onto a ledge that the flatbed convienetly parked next to) at the other end. Unless you're used to doing it, this can take a little practice to get the trailer straight. 3) Crane. Usually not that practical. Usually there's no need for it, unless the trailer is out of action & needs repairs to make it roadworthy. Not a truck driver, but work in Logistics ![]() |
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I know this is incredibly sad but I'd really like to see cars being loaded onto a transporter
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Right the one I saw today, the bottom one had a ledge/end on the kingpin end so if I truck had driven on the trailer it wouldn't have been able to get off and the both trailers were facing the same direction, must have been a crane. I reckon some long distance firms might do it to save cost moving empty traliers around, being in the plant game might also explain the cranes? |
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Im a trucker and I believe they back them onto a bay and then reverse the trailer off the bay and onto the trailer, then drop the trailer and pull off, never done it but it seems about right.
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![]() One thing i dont understand about the tralier hydralics is they can move each side independently (tilt the ramps like the camber on the road except more exteme), these seems to complicated things. Anyway i should probaly be working and not looking at car transporters, cant belive i have written this much anyway. |
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However, a client of ours parks trailers in the yard full of stock (including refrigerated units when the warehouse is full). If a trailer is out of action (because of a broken axel etc) and it can't be repaired in situ, then they'll stick it on a flatbed, take it across the road to their other yard, and repair/dispose of it there. Obviously any stock has to be unloaded first too. |
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Lift it with sky hooks!
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