Trailer with body folded up to the headboard. Note rear doors and space for a 40ft box.
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Thatâs pretty snazzy, except you lose 5â of loading space and not to mention how it would play havoc with the axle weights.
Arenât modern coilers like that, with a sliding canopy over a well sunk into the centre length?
Hi oiltreader, BRS were obliged to take in the local " A" licenced vehicles on nationalisation for compensation, and obviously some odd balls along the way . At Cowley we had tippers and cattle trucks working alongside us for a while. Tippers worked the pits at stanton for Brize and Heyford airfields and cattle for markets at Thame ,Oxford etc â
Blimey! I havenât heard that word tilt for decades! When I worked at Louis Reece in Wigan back in the day, we used to get foreign tilt trailers in with lemons/limes/orange. If there wasnât much happening, we had to give the warehouse chaps a lift hand balling them off.
I was still hauling tilts round Europe until 2006.
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I donât see a twistlock though, I thought that was obligatory these days?
Iâm fairly sure that most docks etc will not load a vehicle without twistlocks in the UK, but am not sure that is actually law?
"You can secure work cabins and containers on flatbed vehicles using:
- twistlocks (if available)
- lashings"
- Securing loads on HGVs and goods vehicles - 6. How to carry different types of load in HGVs and goods vehicles - Guidance - GOV.UK
I havenât seen such trailers used in the UK but did see them a couple of times in France.
Something else that I havenât seen UK side are trailers that ti9lt to allow wide loads to be carried withing gauge by tilting them.
And then again has anyone else seen the trailers carrying wide boats that can be tilted on either side as the vehicle drives along to avoid street furniture etc?
Guess I better look to find sone more piccies.
I never worked at a place after Louis Reece that had any dealings with tilts. The name just brought back memories. The manager there at the time used to be a magistrate & had offenders working under supervision in the warehouse turning orange boxes to stop them getting disfigured & split under the weight of them.
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Euroliners seem to have taken the place of tilts in a lot of Euro work. Itâs possible to side or rear-door load them, sliding roof, side doors and slats for security and quicker/easier/safer to open and close that a tilt.
A full tilt will strip down to a full flat whereas a EuroLiner may not, but mostly that is a price worth paying.
A crane load in a tilt was a right pain, but with a sliding roof trailer as easy as pie.
A wide steel plate load with no convoi exceptional restrictions:
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Looks like a solar powered unit 
Ah! Nice one.
Plug it into the unit battery? And tilt it to follow the sun?
The method of security on the skel trailer is a concern.
I wouldnât be using straps. I would cross chain the chassis at the legs and either chain the wheels or axles.
Under our legislation shipping containers must be secured by four approved twistlocks. Almost contradictory, if a container has the number painted out, it becomes a transportable shed and can be secured with chains.
Unfortunately a lot over here tend to not chains are they think they are too difficult to use safelyâŚa whole `nother discussion there!..
But I would use chains if available, if not, n more straps than being used there, and have them on the wheels, legs, pulling across the load more, as you say, rather than just down.
I would also check what the steel feet in the legs are sitting on too, both for strength and non slip. A hefty wood plank would be a thought.
Hmmm No further comment necessary.
I have seen how to chain a box on, but have never needed to do it.
Still on securing boxes, we did have one trailer (33ft tandam axle Highway flat?) that had removable twistlocks. There were holes to accept the twistlocks which were removed when not in use and stored in a old ammo box welded on the chassis. The twistlocks could be arranged to accept a 30â box with the doors flush on the back, or a 20â with the doors either on the back, or if heavy in the âmiddleâ of the trailer. It needed to be in the middle for axle weights if heavy, but if light could be on the back, both for ease of loading and to get a bit of ropeânâsheet groupage on the front.
Going back to @star_down_under comments, the earlier trailer might indeed be capable of having twistlocks fitted, but they would not be visible.
Having said that it is ages since I used that old 33â, and havenât noticed owt similar since then.
One issue was if the 'locks werenât in use, and were not stowed away they could bounce out very easily with awful results if on the road!
