Wreckers!!

[Pennine Ploughing]

*was

No, it's trailing behind still

 

[bobajob]

Reposesing/ stealing the tractor unit?

 

[YELROM]

Reposesing/ stealing the tractor unit?

No, his boss said just go and take the wheels off that trailer

 

[JP1]

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Now that is a Trailer

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

 

[Old Tup]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

Cos America is very big and there is plenty of room…

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

Cause they catch bollards

 

[Bloders]

Cos America is very big and there is plenty of room…

not really relevant but they also have low axle loads.
Its all noise and show with those huge trucks, and relatvely low payloads.
They do travel fast though.

 

[Andrew]

IIRC there are different axle weights depending on the axle spacings too.

 

[AnyOldName]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

US trucks are configured a bit differently, most artics (semi’s) are in the classic 18 wheeler / 5 axle configuration, 2 drive axles on the tractor unit and 2 axles on the trailer. When you look at them from the side, you can see that the load will be pretty evenly distributed between the truck drive axles and the trailer.

 

[Deerefarmer]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

Helps with the Darwin awards giveaways

 

[Bongodog]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

The box trailers generally appear to have the twin axles on two sliding rails, fully back for road work and forward for maneuvering. The rails look very flimsy compared to our trailer chassis.

 

[Rs chunk]

The box trailers generally appear to have the twin axles on two sliding rails, fully back for road work and forward for maneuvering. The rails look very flimsy compared to our trailer chassis.

Those American box trailers don’t even have a chassis like we have they’ve pretty much cut out the strong bits and mounted the axle and everything to the frame of the box floor

 

[kiwi pom]

why do American trailer have the wheels right at the back must be crap round corners?

Most standard tandem axle box/fridge trailers have a sliding axle set that can be positioned in different places with a simple air operated pin and hole set up. Depending on the load in the trailer, you might slide them forward to take some of the weight off the truck drive axles or all the way to the back if its nearing max gross weight and is loaded evenly.
80,000lbs or 36,287 kg is the max gross weight with that set up in many states.
Just to make it a pain in the arse many shippers and receivers require the tandems to be set all the way to the back for loading/unloading, which makes moving round site difficult unless you do it when you're in the door.

 

[icanshootwell]

 

[ColinV6]

“I’ll be passing in 5 I’ll drop in and say hi”

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I cannot reach the windscreen to fix the parking ticket

 

[Lincsman]

So no trailer or anything hitched, just swerved across the road towards a house... is it just a Fendt thing?

 

[76masseyman]

So no trailer or anything hitched, just swerved across the road towards a house... is it just a Fendt thing?

No, more likely a ‘phone’ thing.

 

[Dman2]

Think maybe I need to slacken baler off a bit