Uhh... wut?

[aremmes]

Dunno 'bout you, but this to me looks like some precarious shit - a 40-foot high cube on a fifth-wheel. Even with Harbor Freight's entire inventory of ratchet straps it looks like the container is about to fall off.

[e90m3]

@aremmes I've seen that before. As long as it both doesn't exceed the load capacity of the truck and they've got a CDL, I see no issue.

[ash78]

Maybe not ideal on two singally trailer axles (yes, that's the opposite of dually, shut up), but I would wager it's either empty or on a very light load.

Probably no worse than a gooseneck with 3 cars on it, which is pretty common. Looks like a Ram 3500, which can easily handle it.

Dat wind resistance doe...probably feels like driving a Wrangler

[MasterMario]

@ash78 said in Uhh... wut?:

Maybe not ideal on two singally trailer axles

It's hard to tell, but most of those deckover fifth wheel trailers that long use dually axles.

[ash78]

@MasterMario I was thinking the same, but it looks like 2 axles, 4 tires. Could be wrong...

[ITA97]

@aremmes Depending on how the container is loaded, maybe not. Or it could be stupid. That Ram 3500 should have a tow rating in the 15-17,000lbs range. That gooseneck trailer should be in the neighborhood of around 6,000lbs empty. Google says the tare weight on a 40ft high cube is around 8,000lbs. Typical 3" straps used in flatbed hauling have a DOT working load capacity (1/3 of tensile strength) of 10,000lbs each.

If that cube is largely empty, that's a load easily within tow ratings and likely even below 26K gross to need a CDL if it isn't being hauled for profit. Or the guy could be going down the road a double the GVWR if its packed full of stuff.

[Shop-Teacher]

@aremmes I bet that's an empty container being delivered somewhere to be used as an outbuilding.

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@e90m3 said in Uhh... wut?:

@aremmes I've seen that before. As long as it both doesn't exceed the load capacity of the truck and they've got a CDL, I see no issue.

Given the last 3 years of seeing how smart people really are, I feel like a lot of generous assumptions are being made lol.

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

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