Maritime 4 axle container trailer question

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Hi guys…just lately as I drive around I have noticed Maritime have some odd looking trailers with a forth axle ahead of the main rear bogie c/w a full lighting just behind this axle as well as the normal lighting on the back end of the trailer,

Can somebody tell me what this 4th axle is for and why it has a full set of lights on it.

Nick.

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The trailer can split in 2 parts so that you can take 2 20ft boxes and unload them both.

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Mmmmm I see…so one trailer would then only have a single axle when split is the correct.

Nick.

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nickjaxe:
Hi guys…just lately as I drive around I have noticed Maritime have some odd looking trailers with a forth axle ahead of the main rear bogie c/w a full lighting just behind this axle as well as the normal lighting on the back end of the trailer,

Can somebody tell me what this 4th axle is for and why it has a full set of lights on it.

Nick.

They are called splitter trailers and can be used to put two containers on a bay at the same time or to nip round the corner with another delivery.

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And you have to drop that back trailer on v. level ground or you will have great difficulty in picking it up again.

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harry:
And you have to drop that back trailer on v. level ground or you will have great difficulty in picking it up again.

or do what they do in there yard…shunt backwards at a great speed and it goes bang and it slides home…

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harry:
And you have to drop that back trailer on v. level ground or you will have great difficulty in picking it up again.

it doesn’t have to be on V level ground, its just like dropping a normal trailer, you pick a flat safe place to drop it and away you go. to connect up again you may have to adjust the air a little in both the front and the back but its not hard, or as has been said, give it some beans and it clatters up together well!!!

nice easy work if you can get it but once a driver gets put on a splitter its hard to get them off it as they get extra for it

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If the trailer is high one side & in a pothole the other the box beam chassis coupling ain’t gonna fit the square tube , it will be twisted, so don’t drop it on rough ground.

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Wheel Nut:
They are called splitter trailers and can be used to put two containers on a bay at the same time or to nip round the corner with another delivery.

If by round the corner you mean Oxford and Cheltenham , then you’d be right :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :wink: :wink:

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and dont park in Front of the parked Trailer