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Originally Posted by Heavy Duty
My best suggestion is to not haul pipe on your pretty trailer, some forklift drivers can be very rough and if you load in a port, good luck, some longshoremen could destroy a anvil let alone a aluminum trailer. Texas terminal in Houston has a sign in the office that says they do not pay for damage on aluminum trailers.
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Clearly I don’t want to make my living hauling pipe, just as I don’t want to tarp anymore loads than absolutely necessary. I do however want to be prepared to haul the best paying load available. If it happens to be pipe once in a while, so be it.
I appreciate your concern for the safety and condition of my new trailer. As this is your second mention between two different threads expressing that concern, I can only assume that you’ve had one or more bad experiences yourself. While this is the first factory-new piece of equipment I’ve owned, I understand that it is going to get bumped and bruised and nicked and dinged. Do I want my nice new trailer to get banged up? Of course not, but it is inevitable with a working piece of equipment.
What am I supposed to do, keep the trailer parked and go out back and look at it every now and then? That would be the only way to keep the think looking relatively new, and that doesn’t put food on my table.