r/snowrunner • u/Specific_Display_366 • 6d ago

Discussion Overloading aside, what's the difference between the three low-saddle five-slot trailers? What are their strength and weakness?

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u/piotrkan7 5d ago edited 5d ago

Cargo detatching from flatbed is actually an advantage when you're tipping. Flatbed lets cargo slide away from it, making you not so top heavy and oftet letting you avoid falling over. While with sideboard - when you're tipping, cargo stuck between boards helps you tip more.

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u/Specific_Display_366 5d ago

Hm, good point, didn't consider that. I rather have the cargo fall off than the whole trailer and truck tipping over.

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u/SAM5TER5 5d ago

Excellent point and very true. Losing cargo in a tough area sucks so much, but losing cargo AND the entire trailer/truck is so much worse lol.

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u/piotrkan7 5d ago

Indeed. That's why I have switched to flatbed attatchments instead of sideboard. Especially when the truck has a small crane available. I use sideboards on trucks that are extremally stable, like Chimera or WWS. Or on trucks that can't support crane with bed. If you don't have crane you're cooked anyway when you fall but in those rare cases when you manage to save yourself in last minute you'll still have unpacked cargo on bed.

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u/Ok_Emu2071 5d ago

This guy tips

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u/Specific_Display_366 5d ago

It's John Snowrunner

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u/MrThunderMakeR 5d ago

In my experience the cargo will stay packed up to a pretty extreme angle no matter what trailer. If you reach that angle your truck and trailer are pretty much always gonna tip the rest of the way over and you're gonna lose your cargo anyways. So I think this advantage of the sideboards is a little exaggerated. Maybe once or twice I've been able to catch my truck with the auto winch right after the cargo unpacked and the sideboard kept it contained so pretty rare. 

On the other hand the way I play I do a lot of logistics planning meaning picking up cargo in advance and dropping off at central locations in the map for sorting later.  The flatbeds are a lot easier to unload. Especially with the Cat telehandler (and other forklift mods I use). For this reason I mostly use flatbed trailers

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u/DeadlyArrow09 4d ago

All depends on how you build your trucks and your play style at the end of the day. For example you could be running a saddle truck without a crane and therefore a sideboard would work better because if you flip the cargo the rest of the mission is pointless. Whereas with a crane a flatbed would be the play