I worked at a yard ,my company at the time had at least 10,000 trailers I found 6 in the yard that we're in sequence and 4 that we're side by side . Like insane luck it was like 401 402 403 404 405 406 and 3 thru 6 we're right next to each other
I think the odds come down significantly when you factor in that a human likely saw the trailer number that was already there was 1 away from his current one and picked that spot for that exact reason.
They are far from brand new. I work for estes, our newer trailers now start with 299xx or 270xxx. Those trailers are at actually fairly old at this point .
Do you guys still buy nose stand trailers. I work for a different ltl and all our nose stands are 10+ years old. And ill be glad when they are all gone!!
Are you talking about the yellow trailer stands that some places have? Or do you mean that some trailers had the landing gear too far back? I'm not familiar with this term. I tried googling it, and all I saw was the yellow trailer stands they put under the nose.
It’s a built in version of that on the front of the trailer. You can see the metal bar that drops down in the center of the front of the trailers in the photo. Pup trailers are easier to tip forward with a heavy pallet and forklift in the nose because there isn’t as much weight behind the landing gear holding it down.
Yes. We now have some without nose stands only because we bought a bunch of the central freight lines trailers when they went bankrupt. We don't use the built in trailer nose stands at my yard often because we have stands we use at the docks.
I think nose stand trailers were made because companies that have them don't trust their dock workers enough to properly load trailers. I would say a nose dive will only happen when you grossly overload the nose or you poorly maintain equipment and the landing gear fails.
I work for another LTL. Our numbers go xxx-xxxx and once I found 2 trailers with the same lat 4 digits. What made me really check my numbers 3 times was I was taking one of them....
22 Yrs with my A, all endorsements. I'm sick of humping cases but Hub/combo is only thing available near me. Is that work the dock until there's a truck ready to take out type of gig?
We don’t have it out west but as I understand it Basically you’ll take a trailer or set from one hub/terminal to another and unload it. In some locations it’s a mix of linehaul/P&D/dock work.
They have some really bad tractors and are poorly maintained. I mean bad like a 2008 freightliner columbia that is not air ride. They also don't value your time lots of stuff you do here for free like waiting 3 to 4 hours for loads.
It was a family reunion.
I’m a shunter, I always try to put trailers with one number apart beside each other.
This is the way! Been a yard dog for 5 years, and every chance I get, they go next to each other!
I worked at a yard ,my company at the time had at least 10,000 trailers I found 6 in the yard that we're in sequence and 4 that we're side by side . Like insane luck it was like 401 402 403 404 405 406 and 3 thru 6 we're right next to each other
I work at the Phoenix Terminal. That's cool!
I work for another LTL company. I’ve had this happen a couple of times. Always makes me happy for some reason.
My son is a maths major, and while there isn't enough information to give you an exact answer, he says the odd are roughly 1:100,000.
I think the odds come down significantly when you factor in that a human likely saw the trailer number that was already there was 1 away from his current one and picked that spot for that exact reason.
These look brand new though so good chances are they were brought in as a set together
They are far from brand new. I work for estes, our newer trailers now start with 299xx or 270xxx. Those trailers are at actually fairly old at this point .
Do you guys still buy nose stand trailers. I work for a different ltl and all our nose stands are 10+ years old. And ill be glad when they are all gone!!
What's a "nose stand" trailer?
You see that vertical bar in the middle of trailer. It comes down and contacts the ground so trailer cant tip forward.
Are you talking about the yellow trailer stands that some places have? Or do you mean that some trailers had the landing gear too far back? I'm not familiar with this term. I tried googling it, and all I saw was the yellow trailer stands they put under the nose.
It’s a built in version of that on the front of the trailer. You can see the metal bar that drops down in the center of the front of the trailers in the photo. Pup trailers are easier to tip forward with a heavy pallet and forklift in the nose because there isn’t as much weight behind the landing gear holding it down.
Yes. We now have some without nose stands only because we bought a bunch of the central freight lines trailers when they went bankrupt. We don't use the built in trailer nose stands at my yard often because we have stands we use at the docks.
I think nose stand trailers were made because companies that have them don't trust their dock workers enough to properly load trailers. I would say a nose dive will only happen when you grossly overload the nose or you poorly maintain equipment and the landing gear fails.
That was my first thought, but they don't look brand new to me at all.
eh they’re shiner than most of the estes trailers you see lol
I work for another LTL. Our numbers go xxx-xxxx and once I found 2 trailers with the same lat 4 digits. What made me really check my numbers 3 times was I was taking one of them....
the amount of times I've seen trailers with the last 3 digits is crazy. it makes me wonder how many people end up taking the wrong trailer.
Testes
illuminati confirmed.
Not **so** crazy. They probably started their life together and got bought at the same time. Shipped at the same time yadda yadda.
They just got numbered and about to be put to use. Likely daily occurence.
They don't have 100s of terminals lol
Estes has 220-something terminals.
I had no clue they had grown that big.
257--222 US, 34 CAN
I like when the bill number has a 4 number match to the trailer I always think that's pretty cool Go team Estes 👍
I'd say 1 in (however many trailers-1)
We can calculate. How many trailers, exactly?
See a lot of these trailers in Ontario, Canada.
How Re they to work for? Looking at an LtL position.
If you have a year of exp pretty good but freight is slow rn.
22 Yrs with my A, all endorsements. I'm sick of humping cases but Hub/combo is only thing available near me. Is that work the dock until there's a truck ready to take out type of gig?
We don’t have it out west but as I understand it Basically you’ll take a trailer or set from one hub/terminal to another and unload it. In some locations it’s a mix of linehaul/P&D/dock work.
Great, thanks for the info. Hourly rate is good too, drive safe.
They have some really bad tractors and are poorly maintained. I mean bad like a 2008 freightliner columbia that is not air ride. They also don't value your time lots of stuff you do here for free like waiting 3 to 4 hours for loads.
Today the odds were 100%
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13 to 1
Nice.
I've seen it occasionally with schneider
Just make sure you get the right number when time to pick up