I am out of the trucking for hire business?? New trailer Pic

JD Seller · Feb 22, 2014

I sold the last 53' step deck last week. So we just have the two tractors and grain trailers. I am going to drop the commercial plates in May and go to farm tags.

Selling the step decks trailers left me with no good way to haul any bigger tractors. I am not talking a big 4wd just the normal 100 Hp tractor. So I ordered a newer goose neck trailer back in Dec. I picked it up Thursday morning while the rain had the road salt washed all off.

It is a Mustang 30 foot trailer, Dualed tandem, electric over hydraulic brakes, and a full hydraulic tail. I am too old for under the floor ramps and HATE flip up ramps. I do have to mount my 12,000 LBS Warn winch on it. I ordered it with the winch mount so it should be an easy install.

I think I will like this trailer. I had a old Mustang trailer and it served me well. I also like dealing with Gary Roeder at Bellevue, Iowa too. Great fellow to deal with.

omahagreg · Feb 22, 2014

Sounds and looks good!

larry@stinescorner · Feb 22, 2014

I dont know much about trailers,but will take this opportunity to ask you how the wife is doing?

Eldon (WA) · Feb 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 18:37:09 02/22/14) I sold the last 53' step deck last week. So we just have the two tractors and grain trailers. I am going to drop the commercial plates in May and go to farm tags.

Selling the step decks trailers left me with no good way to haul any bigger tractors. I am not talking a big 4wd just the normal 100 Hp tractor. So I ordered a newer goose neck trailer back in Dec. I picked it up Thursday morning while the rain had the road salt washed all off.

It is a Mustang 30 foot trailer, Dualed tandem, electric over hydraulic brakes, and a full hydraulic tail. I am too old for under the floor ramps and HATE flip up ramps. I do have to mount my 12,000 LBS Warn winch on it. I ordered it with the winch mount so it should be an easy install.

I think I will like this trailer. I had a old Mustang trailer and it served me well. I also like dealing with Gary Roeder at Bellevue, Iowa too. Great fellow to deal with.

Too bad I didn't know you were headed that way....need someone to check out the New Holland 195 manure spreader he has on Auctiontime this week...

JD Seller · Feb 22, 2014

Eldon: He is only 30 minutes away for me. If your really interested I can easily swing by and take a look at what he has.

Also I can tell you Gary and his son Scott are both very straight shooting people. I would not be afraid to take anything either one of them told me about something as gospel.

JD Seller · Feb 22, 2014

Larry: She is doing well. The rehab is taking more out of her than she thought it would but she is getting better. With the weather as bad as it has been lately I have not been getting up to see her as much as I would like but she is happy with how things are going.

She is helping out in the kid's ward when she is not busy. She loves to read and fuss with kids. So she is doing that between rehab sessions.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 22, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:12:17 02/22/14) Eldon: He is only 30 minutes away for me. If your really interested I can easily swing by and take a look at what he has.

Also I can tell you Gary and his son Scott are both very straight shooting people. I would not be afraid to take anything either one of them told me about something as gospel.

Thanks, but no need to make a special trip. I emailed asking about the bed and apron and Scott replied that it looks good...not sure there is anything else to check out that wouldn't require it to be powered up. Always wonder why they go to an auction with a $100 reserve, tho....but I did get a heck of a deal last November on a tractor. I would have quite a bit in shipping, but not many spreaders out this way. Will see how the bidding goes...

T in NE · Feb 23, 2014

Stick a gooseneck ball on the road tractors and you're all set. Ours at work have a new crossmember built inside the frame rails so it's down out of the way of the 5th wheel.

bigboreG · Feb 23, 2014

What kind of step deck did you have? Just curious.

tg in VA · Feb 23, 2014

If you've kept your road tractor you can buy a kingpin that replaces the ball hitch on your gooseneck trailer (slides right in the pipe)...I've got one for my 42' horse trailer that I pull with a single axle International 8100 and it's better than mounting a ball behind the fifth wheel. I had the ball mounted behind the fifth wheel on both an F700 and a Mack MB. Mounting the kingpin on the trailer is a whole lot better.

JD Seller · Feb 23, 2014

We had two that we hauled hay on. They where both 53 by 102 trailers. The one was a 2010 Reitnouer Aluminum composite trailer. The other one was a Wabash Aluminum trailer.

The Wabash was bought by one of our old drivers and he is still hauling hay. I wish him well but the DOT around here is going nuts on the commercial trucks hauling round bales. They want the front and back bales doubled strapped and a strap over EVERY stack back the load. Then we not only have to have the state over width permit but each county and town has them now too. They are only $10-15 each year but it is a PIA to get them for the entire North-east Iowa area.

The Reitnouer was bought by a fellow that hauls lumber into the local truss plant. That trailer had the container locks on it so he going to try to take containers out of Chicago and bring lumber back here.

dzc3 · Feb 23, 2014

Dot in in Northeast Iowa, that guy acts like he is in the SS. There have been lots of complainants about him. But he an earner for Iowa, brings in lot of revenue for the state. Sorry to see Law Enforcement get boiled down to just another revenue center.

JD Seller · Feb 23, 2014

Good old Harburger. What really steams me is he is a bad diabetic. He can't even drive a state vehicle. The state can't get him insured. He owns that pickup and leases it to the state. IF any of us CDL holders had his health we would be off the road but he can drive for work. He has had several accidents where his blood sugar went crazy an he wrecked.

He is a big reason we quit hauling hay. You are not getting rich anyway and then getting stopped and a $500 ticket takes the profit for a week. I had every bale strapped and he still wrote me up because they where not as tight as he wanted them to be. Soft grass hay and he wanted the straps fiddle tight.

T in NE · Feb 23, 2014

Yeah
Till you get into a bit of a bind with it.
Gooseneck gives you a lot more sideways articulation than a fifth wheel.
I don't know JD's ground but around here you'd twist the stem clean off the goosneck if you put a kingpin adapter on it.
Then you're stuck pulling it with the semi, or swapping the gooseneck hitch back over to put it behind a pick-up.

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