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currently pulling a mix of schmitz, SOR and lamberet fridges have also pullled cherau, leci and gray and adams, curtain siders a mix of tautliners and euroliners mainly sdc and shmitz, worst was probably an sdc euroliner nothing wrong with the design just poor build quality
schmitz curtain siders are crap.
my favs are montracon and lol david
Curtain- monty
Fridge- schmitz
Skell- dennison on surelocks
-we run schmitz euroliners not a bad trl couple of krone euroliners the are crap run 1 old sdc euroliner n it a brilliant trl still looks as good as it left the factory
We run 2x 53’ Great Dane Dry Vans with Overhead roller doors, With Hydraroll pneumatic rollers fitted.
1x 53’ Wabash Dry Van with Barn Doors and Hydraroll.
1x 28’ Pup Dry Van with Hydraroll (Manufacturer unknown - I dont normally drive it)
We also have 6 different Rigids we use
3 x Freightliner M2 with 22’ dry van with overhead roller doors, also with hydraroll
2 x Freightliner M2 with 22’ Curtainsiders with roller doors & hydraroll
1 x Freightliner M2 with 22’ dry van with roller door but no hydraroll
The Hydraroll system we have is desgined for loading and unloading aircraft cargo containers (ULD’s)
currently lagra walking floors for the last 7 years
done skellys, chip liners, car transporters, tippers, reefers, curtain siders, tankers oh and euro liners I think that’s about it
On the odd occasion I have one it’s a Nooteboom stepframe, only thing I’ve ever pulled behind a wagon except for on my test.
flats/trombones a mixture of dennisons montracons and cartwrights
we do have tautliners but have very little to do with them
I pull an sdc skelly all week
Bulk tipping tank for me all week,spitza lag metalair or benalu as i have a different one every day.tried everything else and did’nt like it.
Nearly all Montracon fridges is what I pull , they seem a bit cheap and flimsy to me.
Pulled a few different trailers in my short time in the industry…Boxes, DDs, curtains, fridges, milk tankers, skellies, bulkers. I like bulkers best.....I drive with the window open all year, unless the rain is really bad and a bulker is a quiet trailer to pull, followed by a box trailer......Curtains are noisy things. As for quality.....I don
t care, none of them are mine.
Currently a M+G with tautliner curtains, tough as old boots. My favourite trailers had to be the Hobur tankers that H&S ran, fantastic kit.
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Brand spanking new Panema poultry body on a Dennison chassis with Moffett brackets, lift first axle and steering third axle, the business as far as poultry trailers go, Dennisons are the only chassis up to carrying Moffetts full time as far as I’m concerned, we tried Montracon and they started bending and falling to bits.
Have pulled everything from little tandem skip drawbar to a-frame drags to fridges (gray and adams, heavy but hold temp. very well), curtains, tanks, livestock and lowloaders.
26’ four in lines Flat bed
30’ single axle Thompson (Again Flat bed)
40’ widespread twin axle flats
Four in line low loader (Ex council built in 1953)
Andover stepframe beavertail with sprung loaded ramps (luxury after the four in line abomination)
20’ skellies)
30’ skellies )) – All on steel twin axles some close coupled others widespread
40’ skellies)
40’ tilts
Curtain siders of all makes and up to 13’6
Box vans
Live fish transporter 40’ on twin axle steel with twin power support systems
30’000ltr tanks
Fridges.
And no doubt a few I’ve forgotten
Which is my favourite? An empty one headed home. Although I must admit I’m quite taken with the 30,000 ltr milk tanks. Loaded to 28,600 litres they run well with little slop, there’s no worry about weight distribution or strapping the load down. You can brake without any worry about having to restack pallets and the load is pumped in and sucked out; the most I have to do is watch someone put the pipe on and maybe nip up on top to open a vent but most vents now are ground accessable.
Normally have a kogel trailer on, but also use krone and van hool, all are very good in my opinion. Schmitz curtainsiders are utter crap, always use to think they were one of the best until i started using them.
nowadays I occassionaly borrow my mates ex military 1 axle to put behind me Land Rover on the way to the tip
In the past
40 ’ flats
50’ 60’ 70 ’ 80’ and 100’ flats
Curtainsiders
Curtainsider with moffet
Box trailers
Box with tail lift
Tilts
Sliding roof
Skellies
tanks with baffles (non adr)
tanks without baffles (non adr)
40-60 extenders
50’- 75’ extenders
Double and triple extenders up to 100 ’
Low loaders
Semi low loaders up to 8 axle
Semi lows with beaver tails and ramps
Gooseneck trailers
4, 5 and 6 axle ballast trailers
Pole trailers
Bolster and bogie sets
Modular trailers on a neck
Modular trailers on a bar
Modular trailers with bed and axles front and rear
mini girder set
A frame and straight bar wagon"n" drags
Tippers
Moving floor
Hiab (brick crane)
never done fridges though and like others probably a few I have forgotten
Usually pull 1 Midland side tip &1 midland end dump and to be honest not a bad set to pull.
If i am pulling a single it would be a Midland tri axle end dump and as above not a bad setup ,a couple of the newer dump trailers are ARNES and i would say they are better built and the load slides out with not as many stick ups /inner corners …weight wise nothing in it,
jimmy.
Rikki-UK:
nowadays I occassionaly borrow my mates ex military 1 axleto put behind me Land Rover on the way to the tip
In the past
40 ’ flats
50" 60" 70 " 80" and 100" flats
Curtainsiders
Curtainsider with moffet
Box trailers
Box with tail lift
Tilts
Sliding roof
Skellies
tanks with baffles (non adr)
tanks without baffles (non adr)
40-60 extenders
50"- 75" extenders
Double and triple extenders up to 100 "
Low loaders
Semi low loaders up to 8 axle
Semi lows with beaver tails and ramps
Gooseneck trailers
4, 5 and 6 axle ballast trailers
Pole trailers
Bolster and bogie sets
Modular trailers on a neck
Modular trailers on a bar
Modular trailers with bed and axles front and rear
mini girder set
A frame and straight bar wagon"n" drags
Tippers
Moving floor
Hiab (brick crane)never done fridges though
and like others probably a few I have forgotten
Would of been easier to just say what you havnt towed …