My Dad took this photo in Telford yesterday afternoon,
and asked me what it was.
Apart from saying a trailer with front doors on it (obviously), anyone know like exactly what it is? It doesn’t look like a 20 foot box on the front as well as one on the back or anything, so I’m guessing its a specialised carpet carrying trailer■■? (it’s around the back of a Carpet Right store?)
Cheers
I think quite often their designed for those very long Wagon and Drag set ups, they open the back doors on the truck pulling it and the front on that, and then can unload straight through the trailer.
I think it may also been to do with the length of the carpet rolls - most are 20ft ish and therefore you can get two sets of drops (one thru the front, one thru the rear doors) on a trailer without having to unload the lot. Some of Brit Euro carry forklifts with carpet poles.
I would guess thats 2 X 20’ containers on one trailer, one with the doors to the front, the other with doors to the back. That way if you jacknife the trailer they can unload two containers off one truck, carpets (and other rolled items) are taken off with a forklift with a long tube fitted to the front which slides up the inside of the roll. Saves money on transport fees simple as.
It’s a carpet trailer, doors at the front and the back to facilitate the loading of 2 stacks of full width carpet and unloading with a forklift with a carpet pole attachment. Big rolls of carpet are bloody heavy and this is the best way to do it with an artic.
Regards
Dave Penn;
These are specialised carpet trls … some of which can carry what is best described as 3 “blocks” obviously … doors at each end … so No 1 out through the back doors … No 2 out through the front doors … this leaves the middle section … this is basically a “cradle” on runners, which, using the piggy-back forklift … you pull to either the front or usually the rear to then unload.
Most of these trls have piggy-back forlifts with the carpet spike … driver can unload himself without waiting for “back-door” staff at the likes of these carpet shops on the retail parks … also for the little independent carpet shops who wouldn’t have a forklift.
Loading is done in reverse … load the cradle through the back doors ( on a loading bay ) … push to middle ( not forgetting to “lock in place”. Front & rear are sometimes loaded inside the warehouse.
Not got any photos … but seen it done, as i used to load from carpet factories in Belgium around Dendermonde / Kruishoutem.
There may be some ex Brit European guys on here who have photos ? Also the Dutch firm with the blue trucks that do the carpets … forget the name 
Terrible when your memory goes 
Yes but going by the colour and the make-up it really looks like a shipping container, maybe Choronos, Triton or Hyundai?
No just zoomed in on pic. Theres no twistlocks so pretty sure not container 
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schrodingers cat:
Yes but going by the colour and the make-up it really looks like a shipping container, maybe Choronos, Triton or Hyundai?
Are you looking at the same picture as the rest of us 
schrodingers cat:
Yes but going by the colour and the make-up it really looks like a shipping container, maybe Choronos, Triton or Hyundai?
Read the post above yours from The Rustler maybe three or four times and it might sink in that its not a bloody container 
The Rustler I think your on about Verhoek with the blue motors running carpets 
The Rustler:
These are specialised carpet trls … some of which can carry what is best described as 3 “blocks” obviously … doors at each end … so No 1 out through the back doors … No 2 out through the front doors … this leaves the middle section … this is basically a “cradle” on runners, which, using the piggy-back forklift … you pull to either the front or usually the rear to then unload.
Yep, that’s what it is, a carpet trailer with a moveable cradle in the middle.
Booked in when??:
schrodingers cat:
Yes but going by the colour and the make-up it really looks like a shipping container, maybe Choronos, Triton or Hyundai?Read the post above yours from The Rustler maybe three or four times and it might sink in that its not a bloody container
The Rustler I think your on about Verhoek with the blue motors running carpets
Yes … that’s the firm Verhoek … i think they used to ship trls into Teesport for their drivers … i’m sure they’ve got Brit lads on for them
I think they have some containers … as did Trucking ( Belgian outfit from Nr Kruishoutem - orange coloured motors ) … but i think these are the same with the “cradle” arrangement
Yes built for carpets not a new idea we were using them late sixties I remember being in Van Den Bergs with a load of waste butter and jack knifed it to get some pallets off the front and the forkie says F— Jock it’s Dartford Tunnel on wheels!!!. Eddie.
you can take 50% from of drop one from the front, then the other 50% of the drop from the back.
the weight of the remaining load will be equal.
The Rustler:
Booked in when??:
schrodingers cat:
Yes but going by the colour and the make-up it really looks like a shipping container, maybe Choronos, Triton or Hyundai?Read the post above yours from The Rustler maybe three or four times and it might sink in that its not a bloody container
The Rustler I think your on about Verhoek with the blue motors running carpets
Yes … that’s the firm Verhoek … i think they used to ship trls into Teesport for their drivers … i’m sure they’ve got Brit lads on for them
I think they have some containers … as did Trucking ( Belgian outfit from Nr Kruishoutem - orange coloured motors ) … but i think these are the same with the “cradle” arrangement
Verhoek do use containers, but they were in the yard full of carpets before they built the new depot
Hiya… yes they are carpet trailers with a heavy duty doors and door frames.
everything said is about right apart from the loading from the front and pushing
the middle cradle inn… wrong most trailers are step frame. the cradle only goes
backwards to the back doors.you should see the drivers jack knife the trailer onto
a bay. most of the carpet firms we tipped at had a loading bay. the carpet lads had
the knack of sweeping the unit just passed the bay then reverse jack knife the front
of the trailer so it just sat onto the bay, then the fork trucks could reach the front
stack of carpets,many new delivery points you only need to jack knife on a yard as
theirs plenty of flat concrete
John
limeyphil:
you can take 50% from of drop one from the front, then the other 50% of the drop from the back.
the weight of the remaining load will be equal.
Hiya …you could in theory if only the trailer was loaded right. i,ve had all the load on the pin
stacks of times.
John
how amazingly crap is Verhoek’s website 
The Rustler:
These are specialised carpet trls … some of which can carry what is best described as 3 “blocks” obviously … doors at each end … so No 1 out through the back doors … No 2 out through the front doors … this leaves the middle section … this is basically a “cradle” on runners, which, using the piggy-back forklift … you pull to either the front or usually the rear to then unload.
Most of these trls have piggy-back forlifts with the carpet spike … driver can unload himself without waiting for “back-door” staff at the likes of these carpet shops on the retail parks … also for the little independent carpet shops who wouldn’t have a forklift.
Loading is done in reverse … load the cradle through the back doors ( on a loading bay ) … push to middle ( not forgetting to “lock in place”. Front & rear are sometimes loaded inside the warehouse.Not got any photos … but seen it done, as i used to load from carpet factories in Belgium around Dendermonde / Kruishoutem.
There may be some ex Brit European guys on here who have photos ? Also the Dutch firm with the blue trucks that do the carpets … forget the name
Exactly right, we import most of the carpet and underlay for our astro turf pitches and they are delivered like this, we also have a strong carpet pole for a telehandler when sites are to unsafe for their mofet.