whats all this about 30 pallet trailers
are we on about a semi
Moose:
jf1970:
Getting 18 of these at our depot in Bellshill.They got a live rear axle which is supposed to lock up when you are perfectly straight and reverse is selected.I would of thought that the rear axle wont lock in reverse, if its a proper tridec rear steer it will work in both forward and reverse, the ones that should lock in a straight line are a crap system that often have the wheels pointing the wrong way if the driver failed to get the thing straight before going backwards (often due to lack of room) this puts hell of a strain on the bogie of the trailer when loaded heavy and on one occasion i have seen the propshaft snap on a unit when the driver was trying to force the thing backwards with the wheels pointing the wrong way !
i have this tridec rear steer system on a 33 ft flat trailer and it works a treat
Its a live axle .We had the had the ones you mentioned at safeway when they were in a partnership with bp servicing filling stations.These ones have no rods running from front of trailer.
merc0447:
From coop newhouse, apparently there was an accident involving someone’s tail swing
Thanx
alte hase:
postby Conor » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:56 pm
Saaamon wrote:Surely they should ban the driver…
Indeed. My mate has moved abnormal loads up to 80ft long. It isn’t the trailer, its the driver who can’t drive.
See where your coming from, an old employer regularily borrowed 50’stepframe with axles right on rear, to carry boiler fabrication, not extra long but to get under low bridge to customer, no overhang, no rear steer, the legislators are making a ‘meal’ out of something thats not even a ‘snack’, the STGO operators must be laughing thier nuts off.
Its almost embarrassing.
newmercman:
Fair play to you driver, those car transporters really take some drivingYou lot have so much more to deal with as you drive along, the height, trying to keep away from tree branches etc, the length and overhangs, the locations of your deliveries and loads of things that you’d only know if you’ve done the job (I haven’t) and to top it all off, you have the smallest of small sleepers. Just having to drive in a cab that small would have half of the members on here crying like babies, without all the rest of the headaches you blokes get
Indeed, I always shudder at the overhang at the front when negotiating junctions etc. How the hell do you miss stuff like trafic lights and lamp posts etc 
Cant afford the brain to take a doughnut break driving that bugger!
The title of this topic is about the lhv trailers being banned from co-op newhouse,but there not. McLenaghan of Slammanan use a flatbed Longer trailer to pick up the Blue Chep pallets–the driver even makes it round the tight corner at the offices!
I know there’s a very tight turn in there that has saw drivers take the barrier out with 44 footers, no idea if its that he has hit but it can be dodgy your first time round it.
Going back a few years I was tipping at Sainsburys London Colney, a driver was delivering with a tri axle trailer, deep pin and axles set well back, half a dozen shunts and the trailer was sort of on the loading bay.
The wise one who spent half his day skiving and the rest on breaks instead of unloading commented on how hard it was for the driver because the axles were on the arse end. I pointed out that was a load of rubbish, his mistakes were trying to bash it through a 90 degree swing onto the bay in one go and watching the wheels and not what the trailer was doing, you can put the wheels between the lines but if the trailer ain’t on the dock then it ain’t getting tipped! Wise one then called me onto the bay and watched gobsmacked when I pulled round, an old 24 pallet York with shallow pin and two axles right on the back end (mudflaps on the under run bar).
Back on topic but still with that old trailer, no overhangs to worry about front or back but they were a kerb smasher in the wrong hands and prone to overloading the drive axle when part loaded thanks to the long pin/axle spread.