pain in the arse to deal with. Had the rear box jump the rails on me numerous times even on perfectly flat surfaces, had the rear box battery die in the middle of a transfer, had the lift gate crap out during a load.. And I had a fairly new set of boxes! Transferring safely takes time too so plan to lose time on your loads.

Floored, thanks for the info.. How do you get the box back on the rails after it jumps off?

my truck on one of the rail jumps..

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I was lucky because it jumped while still somewhat in the other box.. some guys are not so lucky and actually drop the box, not sure how they get those back on the rails but I assume its about the same as in pic #2..

Oh another fun way to dump your box is the rear pin breaks or you forget to set it, lift your box to dump and the rear one fall right out. All that keeps the #2 box in teh front one is a small pin.

That's a stupid freaking avatar. Put back the old one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are not a black stallion.

You are headless chick with the boobs.

Geezus

lol but I like being a black stallion

If you want to do dump truckin in the states you name tri axle dumps are the way to go. Think about what your doing. If your idea was so great about the transfers i think people would be useing them right now on the east cost.

I rest my case.

Now you've heard it from the "horse's" mouth.

A transfer hauls 26 ton payload vs 23 or 24 tons on a triaxle.

For approximately every 8 to 12 rounds you'd gain the equivalent tonnage of one extra load.

BUT, the lost time, increased expenses, and hassles hardly seem justified in relation to the small increase in payload.

There is a body maker called alum. tech that says with the right specd. mack grantie and thier body you can get a 26 ton payload.

Whatever you do never make a OTR truck into a dump truck. They will never hold up

I'm not sure Mackman understands the need for a transfer truck.

12 miles up a single track, switchback logging road. Try backing up for 12 miles. Quickly.
Delivering 20 yards of asphalt into a location where your tri-axle trailer could not do so. Think someone's new 10 foot wide driveway from the street to their house. No room for off tracking of a trailer.

Anywhere a 10 wheel dump truck can go, you can take a transfer and deliver twice as much material.

Mackman was referring to a triaxle straight dump truck.