5 foot extensions added to a 48 foot flatbed

Well a shipper would not load one i pulled at a a/c plant, axels had to be slid all the way to rear before they could load it and it had no way to slide them and no lock holes in the 5ft add on part?

 

I wouldn't trust any weight on it anyway.

 

What would they do if it was a 48 with the spread set forward? Or a 53’ spread; being that barely any of them can get the rear axle all the way back?

 

Nah. The reason being is that weld will introduce a point of failure.

IF you need a 53 go get one already built.

 

Back when we were in the hay business I put extensions front and back, plus hauled a lot of freight, never ever once did a shipper even mention not loading one, and if done right why would they. We even had one we stretched right in the middle of the trailer, you could not tell it by looking.
That said, you have to move the dot bumper and tail lights back too. They have to be no more than 30 inches from the farthest rear most point of the trailer.

Now you have to pay a little more attention as to how you load your weight, to keep from getting too heavy on the trailer tandems.

 

>Stretched right in the middle

Oh so that's what this guy did.

 

Nope, that looks nothing like a stretch job. lol

We never stretched any combos either, just steel trailers, that looks like a 10 minute patch job, just for looks to me. lol
Never mind what that side rail looks like, I would like to see the main rail on that trailer, and see what kind of hack job is on it.
If a guy will look at the beams o really any other part of any steel trailer,they are welded together in sections, a welder that knows what he is doing can extend them, shorten them, what ever and be just as good as factory, and where you can't even tell by looking, it is no different than building it new.

 

I got it from the hall of shame thread. It was basically bending hard in the middle.

 

I seen a trailer that had a 5 ft extension. Last week.

But it was a company for their own freight. Probably never rolls across a scale.

For anybody else. It's a probably just a bad idea.