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Location: Southwest Iowa | Are wheel wells inside the trailer a problem in a slant load trailer? Trailer 7' wide, but only 6' between wheel wells. I have not been around a trailer like this. I like the trailer, but have a concern about the wheel wells and the horse hitting their back legs on them. Thanks for any advice. |
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| Originally written by horse_lover_2010 on 2006-08-12 9:21 PM
Are wheel wells inside the trailer a problem in a slant load trailer? Trailer 7' wide, but only 6' between wheel wells. I have not been around a trailer like this. I like the trailer, but have a concern about the wheel wells and the horse hitting their back legs on them. Thanks for any advice.
As with many things the answer is "It depends".
For the dimensions you gave, probably yes.
You'd have to fit horses in there to find out for sure.
The trailer's width is ONE factor, divider angle another, axle placement yet another - let us not forget horse size and proportions, and on and on...
So much simpler with a straight load (-:
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Location: PA | A 7' W slant should not have wheel wells inside. A 7'6" and an 8' would but not a 7'. |
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Location: Southwest Iowa | That is what I was thinking. I measured the axle and outside tire to outside tire measures 95". |
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| Originally written by horse_lover_2010 on 2006-08-13 7:52 PM
That is what I was thinking. I measured the axle and outside tire to outside tire measures 95".
WOW !
THAT sounds like a pre-102 trailer, it could be OLD !
Do you have a date of manufacture from it's VIN tag ?
8ft was the maximum allowed width until,,,, I dunno, ask the old folk (-:
8ft 6 inches is now allowed, since,,, whenever, this is usually called "102" and is still not legal on some fairly obscure roads I've travelled, but I blithely assume the sign means commercial vehicles (-:
I havn't been stopped for it yet, but like I said these are VERY OBSCURE roads, the ones that MapQuest would get you lost on, if it knew about them.
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Location: Southwest Iowa | trailer was manufactured in Feb. 1999 |
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Location: Northern IN. | Hey Reg, some of those "other than class A" roads may not be as obscure as you think. A buddy of mine met up with me at a truckstop over in the Buckeye the other day, to pick up some calves off of me, any way he was telling me that he had just got pulled over by a Wolverine Diesel Bear on M86 (a fairly major Michigan two-lane highway that shoots off of U.S. 12) and was ticketed for being overwidth! He had a 102" 4-star gooseneck stock trailer on and was sure enough overwidth on that highway! He is NOT labeled as commercial, just joe-six-pack moving his cows. Now how in the H*!! is the average joe supposed to know which roads are "class A" versus anything other!?! I think they need to color code the highway number signs, like any class A road will have a blue background on the sign and all others will have red background on the sign. Makes sense to me,BUT, we are dealing with Government here, common sense is out the window!!! You'll see some trailer manufacturers put a warning sticker on the wagon somewhere (usually near the dolly leg handle) warning of this, and to check your local highways ordanances for width restrictions. Talk to y'all later..... |
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Location: THE GREAT NORTHWET, OREGON(THE REAL GODS COUNTRY) | Sound like a bear lookin for an easy buck. I had a 4 horse slant gooseneck by Trails west and it had a small amount of protrusion into the horse area,but it didn't seem to bother the horses.
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| Originally written by Broken Bit on 2006-08-14 9:55 AM
Hey Reg, some of those "other than class A" roads may not be as obscure as you think. A buddy of mine met up with me at a truckstop over in the Buckeye the other day, to pick up some calves off of me, any way he was telling me that he had just got pulled over by a Wolverine Diesel Bear on M86 (a fairly major Michigan two-lane highway that shoots off of U.S. 12) and was ticketed for being overwidth! He had a 102" 4-star gooseneck stock trailer on and was sure enough overwidth on that highway! He is NOT labeled as commercial, just joe-six-pack moving his cows. Now how in the H*!! is the average joe supposed to know which roads are "class A" versus anything other!?! I think they need to color code the highway number signs, like any class A road will have a blue background on the sign and all others will have red background on the sign. Makes sense to me,BUT, we are dealing with Government here, common sense is out the window!!! You'll see some trailer manufacturers put a warning sticker on the wagon somewhere (usually near the dolly leg handle) warning of this, and to check your local highways ordanances for width restrictions. Talk to y'all later.....
The ones I'm thinking of have signs that say something like;
Prohibited.
Trucks pulling trailers over 28 1/2 ft,
duals (or maybe its twins or Tandems),
over 96 inches wide.
What is never clear to me (at the speed I pass them) is whether you need to have more than one trailer AND at least one of them has to be over 28 1/2 ft long AND at least one of them needs to be over 96 inches wide - to get the green stamps.
Or should those ANDs be Ors ?
{Yes, I think SO, but I will act dumb (easy for me) if I ever get stopped for it. Apologetic is another good attribute.
Yeah, dumb and apologetic. |
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Location: THE GREAT NORTHWET, OREGON(THE REAL GODS COUNTRY) | Here's a pic of wheel wells in trailer......oh not what you had in mind ? |
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Location: Northern IN. | Hey SLICKERNSNOT, That's wild, man. Got any info on how or why that ordeal happened? One reason I HATE to have my partners on the back of the wagon. Mine go up front in the stud pen and any one else travelin' with me goes on the rear. If I'm makin' the payments, and it's my rig, my stock gets priorety, ALWAYS!! Ain't I selfish, I know, I know, I should be ashamed  . What would my mama think!?! lol Talk to y'all later... |
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Location: THE GREAT NORTHWET, OREGON(THE REAL GODS COUNTRY) | Here is the story on that trailer. A horse looks out a window of the trailer its being hauled in after a Dodge Neon collided with it, Tuesday, May 4, 2004, in Winnemucca, Nev. The accident occurred after high winds blew dust from a freshly plowed field across the roadway severely limiting visibility. As a result, there was a six-car pileup that ended with the vehicle in the back of the horse trailer. The horse, Crimson Agent, escaped the accident unharmed |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | I wonder how fast the car was going (with low visibility) to get its self to fit completely in that trailer. Or maybe he had help from the car behind it. |
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