Acceptable Cantilevers

[yooperdave]

I have a bed extender for my pick up which lets me haul 16' long lumber routinely. The lumber cantilevers about 4' beyond the bed extender support.

As long as I put a red flag on the end of the load, I have never been pulled over.

If hauling a load on a trailer, what is the maximum cantilevered length extending out the back of the trailer?

Initially, I am concerned that the load might bottom out, as the trailer would sit lower to the ground than the bed of the truck.

I have a couple of W10 x 68 x 30' long steel beams, and I did not want to cut them in half to haul. Maybe I need to hire a semi.

Yooper Dave

 

[CurlyDave]

I know that it varies by state, and I know that you can legally get a pretty long overhang if you flag it. You need to call up you highway patrol and ask.

In Oregon, I remember talking to an officer about that and he said that the power company carried poles on trailers of some sort, where they had 10' or more of overhang and that was OK with a flag.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Not sure but here is a funny story. Seems I see all the crazy's out there. So I am going to my sisters house on I70 a few years back and I see a Suburban in front of me with something hanging below it. It was 40' or better sections of guttering. The guy had a ratchet strap supporting them off the hitch in the rear, the tow hooks in the front, and one in the middle going to the door handles on the back doors. He also had rope supporting the very ends front and back to the luggage rack on top of the SUV. He did have a flag on the front and rear. I swear it was only 6" off the ground and was sticking out 10' front and back. I followed him for a good 20 miles and he had no issues. We have a place called Aluminum Products and they will custom make any length of gutter you want so I guess that is what he did. Myself just call the gutter guy and he comes out with a truck and a gutter maker in it. He makes what you want on site, any length.

Wish I had my camera that day.

I guess the moral of the story is just be careful and strap it down good and they will leave you alone.

Chris

 

[afish]

Last year I purchased a fiberglass in ground pool and had to bring it back from Kentucky to Michigan since the pool was over 10' wide I had to get oversize permits to haul it back(big pain in the butt) however if my memory is correct I was allowed a 4' overhang off the rear 2' in the front. I think most police are looking for unsafe loads if it looks unsafe you can plan on getting stopped. All the weigh stations I stopped at didn't even want to see my stupid permits. Only time anyone said anything was when the tail of a strap came undone and was hanging on the ground but I couldn't see it because of the shape of the pool other wise they just waved me through

 

[tommu56]

I have a bed extender for my pick up which lets me haul 16' long lumber routinely. The lumber cantilevers about 4' beyond the bed extender support.

As long as I put a red flag on the end of the load, I have never been pulled over.

If hauling a load on a trailer, what is the maximum cantilevered length extending out the back of the trailer?

Initially, I am concerned that the load might bottom out, as the trailer would sit lower to the ground than the bed of the truck.

I have a couple of W10 x 68 x 30' long steel beams, and I did not want to cut them in half to haul. Maybe I need to hire a semi.

Yooper Dave

Put a coupler on the front of beam hook it to ball
Put the back on the trailer with say 2' over hang on the trailer with a red flag
Tie it down straight extend the light wires
thats how I got some telephone poles home

I did have to adjust the tie down on the trailer because it wasent straight and was tracking to one side

tom

 

[DanD78]

I once hooked one trailer behind another to haul a 30' x 36" culvert. Block it up and tied it down right over the axles so it would move around in turns. I didn't have to go on any main roads.

Dan

 

[wallace]

I have a bed extender for my pick up which lets me haul 16' long lumber routinely. The lumber cantilevers about 4' beyond the bed extender support.

As long as I put a red flag on the end of the load, I have never been pulled over.

If hauling a load on a trailer, what is the maximum cantilevered length extending out the back of the trailer?

Initially, I am concerned that the load might bottom out, as the trailer would sit lower to the ground than the bed of the truck.

I have a couple of W10 x 68 x 30' long steel beams, and I did not want to cut them in half to haul. Maybe I need to hire a semi.

Yooper Dave

Built a head board on the front of the trailer and let it go out over the truck

 

[yooperdave]

Each beam is over 2,000#.

One small slip up, and my new truck is going to the junk yard.

This brings to mind of that old show Tool Time (Home Improvement) where Tim Taylor dropped a steel beam on the roof of his prized car.

Yooper Dave

 

[dfkrug]

I have a couple of W10 x 68 x 30' long steel beams, and I did not want to cut them in half to haul. Maybe I need to hire a semi.

YOOPER, I had to haul a bunch of I-beams for my house, and one of them
was 30-ft long. I rented the longest flatbed bobtail truck in the San Jose
area....it had a 24' bed, and I rented it from a Ford truck dealer. It cost
somewhere around $100 or so for a half days' use. It had the turning radius
of an aircraft carrier. Worked well, and only 6' of overhang.

I was able to pull each beam off the truck with my tractor.

 

[Bird]

I don't know about other states, but in Texas your load is not supposed to extend more than 3" from the left side, 6" from the right side, 3' front the front, and 4' from the rear. There's an exception for vehicles designed to go on the back of a trailer to be used for loading and unloading (in other words, those forklifts you see mounted on the back end of truck trailers). Those can extend 7' to the rear.