Trick Question: How was the pickup truck loaded?

Truck-truck-truck is awfully close to truck-boat-truck... just saying.
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
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.
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Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
What issue?
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You added more to your post "They can be less than 15*. That is what I said." After I replied. At first you made it sound like it was strapped down incorrectly and you were questioning their method of strapping it down. The rest of your post was added later and explained your position.
 
I passed two of these rigs on the way to Windrock last Thurs. One had a red Dodge truck and one had a red Ford truck. I was wondering how they put all that together as well.
 
Did not mean to sound confusing.....it's a being old thing!
 
the big truck being towed has the platform attached with a cantilever ramp. The pick up is driven up the ramp until the platform breaks over then the towing big rig backs into the platform and tows it all away.


yeah I know thats not how it happens, but that thought makes the little boy playing hot wheels inside me smile, so Im going with it dammit.


Just like I went and visited grandma the other day...she said boy you never change, when you was 3 you use to make them hot wheels trucks race all around the dirt road, now you doing it with real trucks....aint got a lick of sense but we love ya.
 
Never noticed one, but I'd have to guess, the flat bed, or ramps, drops down, U drive on, then slid the lower set of ramps, under the top. The "lift" axle, probably, lifts the bed rig up, & at the same time, lifts the attachment, for the "towed" rig, up to a "locked" position.
 
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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WHAT'S A DIAMOND T ?:D
 
Diamond T bought out Diamond REO which was Reginald Edward Oldsmobile, brother of the guy that invented the car Oldsmobile. I think Brockway bought out Diamond T a few years later. Then Mack shutdown Brockway a couple years later. Dam Rodney, keep up!
 
WOW, YHDG, I was pulling your leg, but really, didn't know about REO, being Olds. I was up a little more on White/Diamond T/Autocar. Actually drove a 1946 Autocar! Fire Depts. Tanker.:burnout:
 
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