Dump Body Liner Questions

Not sure of the brand, but a guy i did some work for a while back had liners in his dump trailers & you still had to jump up & sweep the crushed glass (cullet) out before loading the sand (looked like sand, can’t remember the name tho) we brought back north.

I wasn’t a fan, of the liners.

The liners i did like for dump work were like 30’ long trash bags. They literally were 30’ long Hefty trash bags lol. We used them at the haz waste company. Trailers always came out clean, & in winter time you double line the trailers and would not have to worry about the load freezing.

 

When they extended the truck lanes on the Jersey pike from exit 8a to exit 6 we hauled all the old house away...the ones with lead paint & asbestos.

We also used them for dirty dirt & sludge

 

Dump liners pay here. Worth every penny. Expsenive but worth it. It saves the floor big time.

 

We never used liners. just a bare aluminum box in which we hauled stone, dirt just as easily as we hauled blacktop.

Worse case scenario is we would spray the inside of the bed (With diesel fuel) after a blacktop load day before it has a chance to really stick badly to it. Wait a bit and then raise the bed overnight. A little shovel work in the morning makes a clean bed.

 

Hardly. It's a form of aluminum as a underlying material purpose built for rock. After many years some wear and tear is apparent, but at no time did we think the box is compromised. It's construction might have something to do with it, being a sort of a waffle side with large plates on the outside.

 

Oh now you are asking me to clear some cobwebs. The only memory I have is because I have to check the PTO and hydraulics under the front. The bed's maker was located in Somerset PA at one time it was made. The Superliner 500 was a over the road tractor at one time in it's life. Was bought, the 5th wheel taken off and a dump bed put on and all the things needed for it to run bolted next to and under the drivers side.

Maybe they are still in business. And I could not tell you any detail about the aluminum. Galvanized trashcans of the old school would be the closest metal to what the bed was. I don't even know if you can do that to Aluminum.

The worst of the damage, if you call it that would be a slight dishing of the bed's floor between framing rails below it. (Does that make sense to you?)

Ive driven many good trucks. But I keep coming back to this one. The engine is unique to it and it's transmission was a great fit for the job we had it doing. Not too terribly fast but it could haul 21 ton or so (Overweight...) without any trouble.