68-f-model Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Just picked this up the other day but there is no load rating on the only plate in it.What is the opinion on its capacity?Details:made by: Transport Trailers Inc. Cedar Rapids Iowatires: 8.25 r15Pictures: Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
68-f-model Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 additional pictures Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiant2 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 your load rating cant exceed the rating on the tires. and the older ones have a lighter rating. 1 Quote We the unwilling, Lead by the unqualified, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
68-f-model Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 True so with the current tires I have 18,080 capacity. But what percentage of a load is carried by the tractor? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_martell Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Depends how and where the load is placed.... Quote Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.... Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 25 ton 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickfarms Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 What is the current weight on each axle?You are allowed12 k on steering axle34 k on each pair of tandemsMax is 80 k (without a permit) Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 What is the current weight on each axle?You are allowed12 k on steering axle34 k on each pair of tandemsMax is 80 k (without a permit)GreenGiant2 is correct. DOT legal weight may be 34k on a tandem, but only if the tires are rated for it. Those 10.00-15 tires are going to drop the rating. GreggSent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickfarms Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 You are correct34 K on the tandems is 4250 per tire.If the suspension, rims, hubs and tires are rated correctly you can get 34K on the tandems.Per the first post the tires are8.25 R15The attached chart show the load rating can be as high as 5675 for duel s at 125 psi, max 55 mphhttp://www.goodyeartrucktires.com/pdf/resources/service-manual/Retread_S14_V.pdfYou do need to check the tires to see what they are actually rated for. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomastractorsvc Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 just bought 8 8.25 x 15 for mine, rated for I have 12 tires on mine so that is 59280lbs Max Load Single5675Max Load Dual4940Good luck on the restoration yours looked to be in better shape than mine was. Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 That old Transport looks good behind your F model. I'm only 80 miles from where they were made. I've got a '75 Transport grain trailer.They made livestock trailers and flatbeds too. They went out of business in the '70'sI had 2 old LaCrosse lowboys,one was a '46 tandem with 9:00x15 tires,the load rating stamped on the factory tag said 26 ton. I hauled a D7 on it a few times with no problems. This trailer,by the way,was used by First Gear Co. as a pattern for their 1st 1/34th scale lowboy trailer replica. I sold it several years ago because it wasn't very handy to haul trucks.This one was a '53 with 7.50x15 tires and had a 20 ton rating,from the looks of it it had been overloaded alot,ended up scrapping this one. Couldn't find a home for it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
68-f-model Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 Thanks Superdog, the only thing the guy ever hauled on it was a very small dozer, it has had an easy life.Thomastractorsvc, I can only hope mine turn out half as nice as yours and yes all new 8.25r15 of respectable load rating are in the plans.One other question is on decking. -Should the wood be the tallest surface on the bed or should it be flush with the metal framing.-I have been debating between treated yellow pine and some sort of oak, what is the opinion? (no I am not using apitong).Purely a hobby truck and trailer but I do want it to last. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomastractorsvc Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I have had good luck over the years with pressure treated and mine is flush to the deck. When I called around for rough cut oak could not find any that was reasonably priced ( in my budget) my neighbor said they used I think cotton wood on the 7 or 8 lowboys his company had, than switched to a man made material and they stopped replacing decks. Back in Maine we used rough cut tamarack for potato truck beds and they seemed to last, another guy used diemsional spruce or fir and he never treated it but kept his trucks insideFor what you are going to do I think pressure treated is more than enough Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/40382-trailer-load-capacity/#findComment-292882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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