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[duramaxsky]

There must have been some parmeter as to how much weight you can put in one spot that was ignored. Looks like aluminium,no? Probably would not have happened with a steel trailer.

Steel trailers are built stronger as if you are buying steel weight us not your main concern. That trailer is not a real heavy haul trailer. Spread axles only add 6,000 pounds to the capacity. And it's a 3 axle tractor not a 4 axle.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Who knows. Might have done hundreds of those same runs before it broke. We never get the story, just a picture.

 

[Redlands Okie]

And loads with multiple deliveries are handled how?

Proper planing and a bit of luck and you can unload at various stops and not have any weight issues. However, it’s not unusual to have to shift a load around as needed.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Trailors that are designed to haul heavy spot loads such as coiled metal are available. It’s not unusual for a driver or dispatcher to try to fit in some loaded money making miles and then with bad load balancing to have things go wrong. You can haul a lot of lumber on a trailor just fine. Put some metal coils on the same trailor in the wrong place and your going to have some failure issues. That savard load with the metal coiled in the pictures was loaded poorly for the trailor design without a doubt. Those two coils should have been spread with one on the front of the trailor and one on the rear of the trailor and probably been just fine. Apparently coils are one of the more dangerous loads to haul. Proper tie down with them is a bit of a process.

 

[LD48750]

What difference does that make. Once loaded it can stay where it is. If it scales it still will.

The implication in your post was that with proper loading the trailer would not have failed.
It looks to me like the trailer WAS loaded properly and the first reel of cable was dropped at first stop & trailer failed on the way to next stop.

 

[Redlands Okie]

I suspect that pot hole had a LOT to do with that trailor failure. So much weight in the center and not over the axles. Once that front axle went over the hole all the weight was on the rear axle of the truck and trailor and that trailor could not handle that much stress without the front trailor axle carrying some of the weight.

 

[RobS]

Trailors that are designed to haul heavy spot loads such as coiled metal are available. It’s not unusual for a driver or dispatcher to try to fit in some loaded money making miles and then with bad load balancing to have things go wrong. You can haul a lot of lumber on a trailor just fine. Put some metal coils on the same trailor in the wrong place and your going to have some failure issues. That savard load with the metal coiled in the pictures was loaded poorly for the trailor design without a doubt. Those two coils should have been spread with one on the front of the trailor and one on the rear of the trailor and probably been just fine. Apparently coils are one of the more dangerous loads to haul. Proper tie down with them is a bit of a process.

I lived in the Detroit area for a few years back in the late '80's. Like most, I was tuned in to the morning traffic reports on my commute to work. It was a fairly common occurrence to hear the phrase "steel hauler lost his load". The follow up greatly depended on where the coil came to rest!

 

[civilian]

..........It looks to me like the trailer WAS loaded properly and the first reel of cable was dropped at first stop & trailer failed on the way to next stop.

If the trailer had 3 reels to begin with, and one was dropped off prior to the picture, the middle reel should have been removed to keep the weight over the axles. Just my thought, but not knowing what the reels contained, we will never know. Jon

 

[MickeyDBC]

Those are not sheet coil, they are cable, most likely either big direct burial or overhead electrical cable. The shop down the street from mine sells that stuff and their big forklift (24K capacity) grunts when loading or unloading those big spools. They can easily weight 20,000 pounds each and are hard on trailers. That style trailer and how they have them placed are common practice. Aluminum trailers are more likely to crack than bend like a steel trailer.

 

[BravoXray]

And loads with multiple deliveries are handled how?

Depends on the load. If it's two or more big pieces, first stops go on the rear.
If it's something that has to be stacked, like racks of plastic pipe or lumber and can't be loaded all in one stack, then it's normally loaded so the top tiers come off first. There again, it all depends on the type of load.
I always hated hauling big single coils. They're hard on trailers and depending on the diameter, can be top heavy.
Had a friend back in the 70's that bought a new Fruehauf 45' flat bed, with a sliding tandem. He leased onto Mickow Corp. aka TMC now, and about all he hauled for them was big single coils. After four years the trailer was destroyed, many crossmembers broken and the rear tail light bulkhead was ready to fall off. He couldn't sell it, and no one would take it in trade so he sold it for scrap. He bought a van and started hauling loads of skidded hardware for a local company. No more coils for him.