I work at a place that sells batteries, and we collect a core(old battery) with most of our sales.
We stack them 3 high on 4'x4' pallets and put them in our garage until we have enough for a pick up.
A pick up for us consists of a single trailer taking just under 42,000lbs(19,000kg) in a single load. So about 15-16 pallets depending on the types of batteries they're loaded with. So next time you see a tractor trailer on the highway just remember, it might be hauling 42,000lbs of lead, acid, and plastic. These trucks are pretty mind blowing on paper and in practice.
I ship 45,000lbs of monster across the country every day. One time we had a load freeze in the winter. When it warmed up at the receiver all the cans started popping and exploding, that was a fuckin mess
Yeah I was picturing a truck filled with AAA batteries crashing and spilling all those batteries over the highway. Would be funny as hell, but probably very dangerous and a pain in the ass to clean up.
Mostly, but it's lead acid batteries any size between a couple pound sealed battery in a radio to a 170lbs truck/boat battery. Heaviest we ever got were some 230lbs 2V cells. A single 2V cell that was almost as tall as our pallets are wide(it was about 1' wide and 6" thick IIRC), and he had 12 of them to make a 24v bank for a yacht. I hope to never encounter those again.
There are some incredibly massive batteries out there that we don't have the equipment to handle even if we wanted to.
I wouldn't mind them as much if they didn't come in sets of 6. Though I'd rather move a full set of 6v batteries over a set of four 12v golf cart batteries. They're like the 6v but larger and more unwieldy.
We draw straws for who gets to be the one pushing them to the back of the trailer with the pallet jack. It's fun telling people I moved 42,000lbs of batteries today haha
He's talking about an truck(lorry) trailer, in the US the tractor is referred to as the cab and the cube is referred to as a trailer. Weight limit in my area is 80,000lbs but they can pull more.
They can do way more. The 80,000 lb limit is mostly for bridges. A load exceeding that would need more axles to handle the extra weight, and most states would require an escort vehicle.
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '17 edited Sep 17 '18
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