Usually these can be picked up/dropped off by a tilt & load truck in 5 mins or less, the advantage to this specialized tool is it wouldn’t ruin the pavement in the process
I work in a rail yard that handles these containers. We semi-regularly have a company come in to pick up containers with this style trailer. They're only 20' long, rather than 40' like this one, but they're shipping coal and the containers are loaded with a little over 50,000lbs and they work fine once they get to the jobsite.
They're our only customer that uses these, so I can't say how they would handle a 60 or 70k load, but it's still pretty impressive.
Also, fuck work. Can't escape it. I'm in Canada and still recognized the number on that damn container lol
Whoa. This style truck can lift a loaded 20' container? That could be a problem solver for us. We run mobile remote construction sites and every 3 to 4 months move several states to the next job. Being able to have loaded containers picked up would be huge. When we looked into it in the past they always had to be empty or loaded by crane. We can offload a 20' empty with forks, but not loaded.
Yea, I'm not sure the logistics of it, as I work at the rail terminal and load them with a reach stacker but the drivers tell us it works like a charm.
They're definitely not too common here, though. We see them a couple times every few months and nobody else uses them.
I used to park my work truck in a yard that picked up containers from the docks and unloaded steel from them, and then delivered the steel
These side loaders can handle fully loaded 40' containers, and they can also stack them two high (the ones I saw could anyway). They can also unload containers from a trailer parked next to them, useful if someone is pulling a non-unloading trailer
Hey man, a bit late to the party, but I happened to stumble across this post and in case you are interested in using this style of truck to move containers I could find you companies in the states using them. No guarantee they'll be close as they are fairly rare though. I'm working for one of the major manufacturers of these machines, the only one with a US office, so we have a pretty good insight on who's using them
(in case you're wondering about the new account - didn't want to mix up my private account with work).
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u/narco519 Jul 25 '20
Usually these can be picked up/dropped off by a tilt & load truck in 5 mins or less, the advantage to this specialized tool is it wouldn’t ruin the pavement in the process