Trick Question: How was the pickup truck loaded?

Benjie

Benjie

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I took this yesterday. This is a new over the road truck towing another over the road truck, with a pickup in between. How was the pickup loaded? 10 points to the winner.

Thought it was interesting. I may start towing my rig like this...

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Looks like what the pick up is being hauled on was used as a ramp than lifted up and the other truck was hooked after???
 
Fork truck.

I still want to know how they load/unload the trucks when they're piggybacked on one another.
 
Looking at it. it looks like the truck road up on ramps to a flat trailerto the red truck. The ramps folded under the half trailer and the black semi backs up to connect up.
 
Hmm. Good answers. What is that smaller tag axle for in the middle. The one directly under the rear doors of the pickup. Is that used somehow to suspend the rigging until the black truck can back under it and hook up??
 
Probably has a phnumatic or huydraulic system to lower the dolly wheels.
 
If the rear towed truck is delivered at point A then the small duals are slid back and becomes a trailer to haul the pickup to delivery B. The dodge then hauls the trailer back to factory and it begins again.
shawn said:
Fork truck.

I still want to know how they load/unload the trucks when they're piggybacked on one another.
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Large A frame setup like a giant swingset with a hoist. I pigg backed a tracter back from Rock Springs Wyoming years ago that the engine let go. My father owned 4 tracters at one time years ago. The one that blew was a Diamond T.
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
Large A frame setup like a giant swingset with a hoist. I pigg backed a tracter back from Rock Springs Wyoming years ago that the engine let go. My father owned 4 tracters at one time years ago. The one that blew was a Diamond T.
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Nah, I'm still thinking it's a couple of farm jacks.

If you think a Hi-Lift jack under a jeep is scary, you should see them when they're picking up Freightliners. :flipoff2:

Guessing the A-frame is all collapsible, rides with them, and gets mailed back at the end of the run?
 
No the dealers are responsible for unloading, some use large wreckers. I've had the military unload duece and a halfs with a large forklifts at Tewilla depot outside of Salt Lake Ut. off of my flatbed.
 
Not really sure how it works. Its got to have something to do with the little tag wheel suspended in the photo. Def hydraulics somewhere.

The only thing I am sure of is that there was circus music playing when everything was getting loaded.
 
Maybe the trailer with the pick up truck on it connects to the 5th wheel on the first over the road truck (the one towing), the axle in the middle of the trailer supports the it until the second over the road truck backs up and connects its 5th wheel to the other side of the trailer.
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
If the rear towed truck is delivered at point A then the small duals are slid back and becomes a trailer to haul the pickup to delivery B. The dodge then hauls the trailer back to factory and it begins again.
Large A frame setup like a giant swingset with a hoist. I pigg backed a tracter back from Rock Springs Wyoming years ago that the engine let go. My father owned 4 tracters at one time years ago. The one that blew was a Diamond T.
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I caught him! I was fishing for this guy ^^^. I knew that bait would catch him.

Interesting how the stuff can change to facilitate the different combinations of delivery.
 
Ding Ding! what do I win?
 
Here's another thought, look at the straps holding the Dodge. Does anybody know why they are like that?
 
Yes, but why are they like they are?
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
Yes, but why are they like they are?
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Seems like an easily accessible and secure tie down point. Most wheel diameters and designs wouldn't lend their selves to strapping down that way (getting the strap through the wheel) so that would be why you wouldn't see vehicles tied down that way often.
 
Because there is nothing in the middle to tie the axle down to? The only tie down points are in the middle of the trailer?
 
DOT specifies that a vehicle secure on a trailer, the tie downs cannot be more than 15* from anchor point to attachment point. This allows for suspension movement without breaking the means of holding the vehicle.
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
DOT specifies that a vehicle secure on a trailer, the tie downs cannot be more than 15* from anchor point to attachment point. This allows for suspension movement without breaking the means of holding the vehicle.
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Do you have a link to this specification? Those tie downs appear to be at an angle less than 15 degrees and allow for suspension movement.
 
They can be less than 15*. That is what I said. Check the Federal DOT rules and reg. I'm not telling anybody they are doing it wrong, I'm just saying it does make since the way it is done. I pulled flatbed 48 states and hauled a lot of different vehicles, military and commercial and this makes the Scale masters happy. I have hauled single coils of steel that weighed 48-52 thousand in a suicide position versus shotgun, and the angle makes a big difference.
 
What issue?
 
Those are fun to watch while they're hooking everything up. I still haven't been able to catch them decking tractors with the new underslung arms yet though, those things look pretty crazy.

I work for a Class 5-8 truck modifaction company so I get to see all kinds of crazy decking/undecking procedures...some not so successful.
 
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