The topic about safe loads got me thinking,what have you carried on platform trailers,no low-loaders,semi low-loaders but just platform trailers.The older drivers will I am sure come up with loads more (excuse the pun). Here is my list of what i can remember.
Steel plate—angles—flats—billets----bright bars— coils—tinplate----re-enforcing rods—pipes—structural steelwork wide and long
Tracked excavators----wheeled excavators —articulated dump truck—tipper wagons—mt trailers—tractors
Large cable drums (up to 6/7ton each) ----Industrial lathes and presses,ships anchors,chains, propellers.
Non palletised whisky—gin—lime—fertiliser—animal feeds—nails—cement----potatoes
Stillages car parts-----sewer pipes—Porta-cabins----crane jibs—over-head crane—crane weights
Coiled wire—Terex dump truck wheels and parts—Volvo cabs and chassis"s—Leyland axles and chassis frames
Chip-board—ply-wood—mahogany tree trunks—asbestos sheets—baled rubber
Concrete beams ----segments—sewer pipes—clay pipes
Pallets of bottles (2 pallets high) —tin cans—can lids—canned food —drink
Bales of waste paper—cardboard—bales of bacon sides—crated live chickens—newsprint
45 gallon drums Oil —aviation fuel----mt drums—mt whiskey casks
All on 40/50 foot platform and trombone trailers,all secured with timbers —chocks—sleepers----chains----dwangs(my term)—nails—ropes —sheets,no straps around till later.Cannot remember any more,but do remember never losing anything honest. So put your list on ,it will probably contain many of the above but am sure there must be more.
On a flat lorry, I once had a (Small) orchestra from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on the back while it performed in Glasgow Central Station during Charities Day.
What’s more, during the playing of the ‘Stripper’ music, one of the girls did a strip to her undies and stockings!
Ringside seat and getting paid for it too!
Those were the days!
Alex
70’ long canal boat, steel hull, rounded bottom,on a trombone trailer. does that count! also a 65’ long lattice crane jib with 10’ hanging over the cab. weirdest must be huge sacks of peanuts out of liverpool docks into south wales ,how the hell it stayed on the trailer i dont know.