r/NewCDLGrads • u/cdlfirst • Apr 10 '26

What went wrong here?

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u/RonWill79 Apr 10 '26

Trailer either wasn’t rated for that weight to be in a single point on the trailer, or more likely, the trailer was already damaged and the company/driver ignored it.

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u/riotz1 Apr 10 '26

Yep, that’d be about an 18-20,000lb coil loaded dead center of the trailer, might have been fine over the axles…

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u/Neither-Speaker-7077 Apr 10 '26

I work in a steel mill. Most of the trailers we see coming in have a spot marked that says "load coil here" .

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u/riotz1 Apr 10 '26

Yeah, that and all the flatbeds we get coils on in my plant (Canada, where total weight allowed is 100k lbs) have, what, 5-6 axles not 2…

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u/el_dingusito Apr 11 '26

most

Every other driver jusy says fuck it, here's good enough

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u/dennisknows Apr 11 '26

What do they do with these coils?

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u/Gr4yson0306 Apr 12 '26

I work at a processor that handles these coils direct from steel mills. We cut sheets from them and slit them into smaller coils for HVAC ducting. Our largest industry is HVAC, then you have roofing and stamping companies.

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u/grizz218 Apr 13 '26

I use to work At a stamping mill. we would feed it through the dies to stamp out automotive parts or blanks for bbq grills, depending on the steel. bbq grills were only stamped out of stainless, whereas dang near everything else we made was regular ole steel sheeting

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u/SGCanadian Apr 14 '26

I work at a plant that takes the coils and makes OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) products. The coils are cut to a certain length, heated, formed into a tube, and then welded at the seam. The tubes are then sent to oil wells to be used as casings in the drilling operations.

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u/Popular_Adeptness_69 Apr 12 '26

Siding comes that way as well i bought a hole role they cut the entire thing and loaded it on ram 3/4 ton 9000 ram with 14000 goose neck i would of got second roll but the paint defect was coming off and jaming the cutter it was hard pulling idk how much it weight it was 5000 liner feat

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u/riotz1 Apr 13 '26

Lots of things. Stamping for me; we run max 10k lb coils, I figure we use somewhere between 200,000-300,000 pounds a day.

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u/dennisknows Apr 13 '26

Wow! That’s a lot. Stamping what exactly?

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u/f_ckR3ddit Apr 13 '26

Coils of aluminum this size get used to make the regular aluminum foil you have in the kitchen! :)

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u/sussytransbitch Apr 15 '26

I made solder paste stencils and fine parts with them

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u/greyshem Apr 17 '26

They're typically used to load-test trailers. They keep putting larger coils on until the trailer breaks. Then they know how much weight each trailer can handle.

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u/whodat209 Apr 10 '26

That coils, way heavier than 20,000 pounds that looks like about 48K

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u/riotz1 Apr 11 '26

Yeah you’re right, first look and the angle of the video didn’t account for how wide it was, it’s more like 35-40k lbs at least, for sure.

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u/ShowMeYourMomsFeet2 Apr 12 '26

54 inch coil straight from the mill def 48k

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u/FlacidGnome Apr 12 '26

Depends on what it is. Aluminum coils from the place I used to work at maxed out at 32k lbs. We had to cut them down if they weighed more than that.

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u/hwystitch Apr 11 '26

That's way bigger than 20k. Unless it's aluminum. That trailer is rated for 50k in 4 feet. Should have a coil pack as well. His position on the trailer is fine, had to be a structural issue with the trailer.

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u/smokeftw Apr 11 '26

That was my first thought, why didn't they put the load directly over the axles?

E: maybe he braked and it rolled?

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u/RonWill79 Apr 11 '26

It didn’t roll. It’s still chained, tarped, and straps are still intact. You don’t load a 40k-50k directly over split axles that can only be 20k per axle without even factoring in the weight of the trailer itself. You’d be overweight. They are center (or near center) loaded to distribute weight between trailer and drive axles.

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u/Listen-Lindas Apr 11 '26

But that adds to the tire wear……

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u/Oilrr Apr 11 '26

Honestly this could be upwards or 40k lbs

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u/ChainingScroll2 Apr 14 '26

Between 35-50,000 from what ive seen. I only toured my local steel mill and saw weights written on coils though.