Move It, Buddy

Danielle Jackson

Clement Industries

Clement Industries Inc., Minden, La., manufactures a 36-foot frameless roll-off equipped with a sliding tandem and an 80,000-pound capacity, the company says. Clement also has introduced the Starlite lightweight end-dump steel trailer. The Starlite weighs 10,400 pounds and includes options such as stainless and AR steels for applications such as ore concentrates, fly ash and other materials.
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Columbia

Columbia Corp., Hillsboro, Ore., offers the Columbia low-profile landfill tipper, a mobile landfill-based machine for dumping solid waste from transfer trailers. Features include a 50-ton maximum dump capacity, deck lengths up to 42 feet and dumping for trailers as long as 53 feet. The tipper has an up-and-down cycle time of three minutes and can dump a trailer every five minutes, according to the company.
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East Manufacturing

The East Unloader aluminum transfer trailer from East Manufacturing, Randolph, Ohio, has a 100- to 135-cubic-yard capacity, 9-inch by ⅝-inch top rail, and 5 ¼-inch extruded I-beam crossmembers on a 12-inch center. The 101-cubic-yard trailer can be as light as 15,500 pounds, the company says. Features include a plug-together wire harness and custom manufacturing.
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Everlite

Everlite Inc., West Frankfurt, Ill., manufactures Almatech and E.L. Series aluminum, round-bottom end-dump trailers and dump bodies available as frameless, ¼-frame and frame trailers. Trailers measure 24 feet by 39 feet with one-piece walls and a 9,055-pound maximum weight on a 39-foot trailer, the company says.
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Fontaine Trailer

The Ultra drop deck trailer from Fontaine Trailer Co., Haleyville, Ala., features fabricated I-beams with continuous welds on both sides, a minimum of 130 steel flanges and lightening holes, and a reinforced heavy duty upper coupler area to connect with a tractor's fifth wheel. The trailer has extruded aluminum side rails with aluminum stake pockets, pipe spools and rub rails, and comes with a sealed electrical system. Features include a Hendrickson Intraax air-ride suspension with a rear axle designed to slide from 50 inches in the closed-tandem position to 102 inches in a spread position.
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Hallco Manufacturing

Hallco Manufacturing, Tillamook, Ore., manufactures live floors for transfer trailers, including the Double Ridge deck, Triple Ridge deck and continuous bearings. The Double Ridge features a ½-inch impact-absorbing ridge for top-loading applications. The Triple Ridge features a 1-inch-wide, full-length center wear strip and is used for construction and demolition (C&D) debris applications. Continuous bearings are mounted full-length and notched over the crossmembers, or cut to length and placed between crossmembers, the company says.
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J&J Truck Bodies and Trailers

The DynaHauler/AT aluminum open-top tipper trailer from J&J Truck Bodies and Trailers, Somerset, Pa., comes in aluminum and steel and has a 130-cubic-yard capacity, the company says. Features include a standard top rail, 4-inch I-beam crossmembers on 12-inch centers and 5/32-inch sides. Options include a spare tire carrier, horizontal side braces and tarps. After discharging the load, the optional airflow tailgate is designed to provide less wind resistance, the company says.
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Kalyn Siebert

The KSED aluminum end-dump trailer from Kalyn Siebert, Gatesville, Texas, comes in steel frame, ¼ frameless and frameless models. Features include a sliding body, 22- to 40-foot lengths, up to 5 axles, crossmembers every 15 inches, a sealed lighting system and 2-speed landing gear. Options include a choice of suspension and height, spoke or steel discs, and LED lighting system, the company says.
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Keith Manufacturing

Keith Manufacturing Co., Madras, Ore., offers Walking Floor unloaders available in a variety of floor slat configurations for medium to heavy duty use. The Impact series flooring features a ridge designed to absorb top-loading impact and is used for loading and unloading municipal solid waste (MSW), recycled materials and C&D debris, the company says. Slats are made from aluminum alloy. A leakproof floor is optional. The company also offers the V-Floor stationary unloading system, an all-steel floor that has no size restrictions and is leak-resistant, according to the company.
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Mac Trailer Manufacturing

Mac Trailer Manufacturing Inc., Alliance, Ohio, manufactures transfer trailers, aluminum flatbeds, and aluminum and steel dump trailers. Lengths range from 40 feet to 53 feet, widths range from 96 inches to 102 inches, and overall heights range from 11 feet to 13 feet, 6 inches. The top rail is 9 inches by 6 inches by ⅝-inch and features a corrugated design and an optional ¾-inch-thick top rail for more abusive top-loading, the company says. Uprights are 10 inches wide with three extruded stiffeners for reinforcement, according to the company. Floor kits range from flat floor for recycling applications to high-impact floors for C&D applications.
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McClain E-Z Pack

McClain E-Z Pack Inc., Sterling Heights, Mich., offers aluminum and steel live floors and tipper trailers. Aluminum and live floor capacities up to 131 cubic yards, lengths up to 53 inches, heights up to 14 inches and 25,000-pound axles are available. Live floors and tippers also feature Reyco 21-B suspensions with optional Hutch suspensions. Aluminum tippers have the same specifications but feature 133-cubic-yard capacities.
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Peerless

The Live Floor Transport from Peerless Corp., Paragould, Ark., hauls MSW, biomass products and other dry bulk cargo. The 48-foot, open-top semi-trailer holds up to 113 cubic yards, features dual axles and is made from welded aluminum.
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Phelps Industries

The L39FB63 portable landfill tipper from Phelps Industries Inc., Little Rock, Ark., is 62 feet long, 13 feet, 10 inches high, and 13 feet, 10 inches wide. The tipper weighs 95,000 pounds and has a 50-ton capacity, 63-degree tilt angle, two multistage, telescopic cylinders, 94-horsepower (hp) diesel engine operating at 1,800 revolutions per minute (rpm), and a 400-gallon hydraulic reservoir. Cycle time is approximately three minutes, according to the company.
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Red River Manufacturing

Red River Manufacturing, a division of Trail King Industries Inc., Mitchell, S.D., has introduced the Super Transfer Wedge (STW) trailer with live bottom floor. STW's payload ranges from 115 to 127 cubic yards. Features include an aluminum body with 18-inch on-center uprights; a 17 ½-inch by 63-inch chevron-segmented rubber belt live-bottom floor moved by planetary drives; safety door latch; lights in the rear door; rear push block; front and rear ladders; and a spare tire carrier. Options include a tri-axle, aluminum wheels and several tarp, hub, drum, tire and wheel options. The rear of the trailer is 3 inches wider and 8 inches deeper than the front to create a tapered wedge cargo area that eliminates bridging, the company says. Payload discharge out of the side-swing tailgate is completed in one revolution or less, according to the company.
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Redwood Metal Works

The Silver Series open-top aluminum, live floor transfer trailer from Redwood Metal Works, Redwood Falls, Minn., comes in 53-feet lengths, 104-inch heights, and either 96- or 102-inch widths. Keith or Hallco hydraulic floors are available. The tailgate is a hinged barn door on the curbside with a heavy duty latching system, and the top rail is 9 inches with heavy duty extruded aluminum. Options include flip and rollover tarps, catwalk or platform on bulkhead, air lift axles, and Ridewell air-ride suspension.
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Spector Manufacturing

Spector Manufacturing Inc., St. Clair, Pa., offers steel and aluminum closed transfer trailers, and aluminum dump trailers. Steel and aluminum ejector-closed transfer trailers have 94-cubic-yard capacities, and options include bolt-on removable roofs, hydraulic roof panels, 102-inch-wide models and multi-axle configurations. Aluminum dump trailers feature 34-cubic-yard capacities, are 26 feet long by 96 inches wide, and include 102-inch-wide and frameless model options.
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Steco

Steco, Enid, Okla., offers the AWO 45100 aluminum live floor, open-top trailer, which is 45 feet long, 100 inches high and has a 100-cubic yard capacity. Trailers are available with Hallco and Keith live floors. Options include the company's Max-Flow tailgate.
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Titan Trailers

Titan Trailers Inc., Delhi, Ontario, Canada, offers the Titan Thinwall Possum Belly trailer with a hollow core panel construction. Features include a sloped rear floor over the running gear that collects leachate in the watertight belly portion and a tapered top-rail designed to withstand loader abuse, according to the company. The belly comes with drain plugs to release excess liquid.
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Trail King Industries

Trail King Industries Inc., Brookville, Pa., offers aluminum live floor, tipper and transfer trailers. Tipper trailers are made with extruded components and include recessed lights in the extruded back plate for protection during dumping, a heavy duty tailgate featuring a bi-metal overhung hinge welded to the trailer and a sealed wiring system harnessed to the trailer structure. Live floor transfer trailers include extruded vertical rails, corner posts and horizontal braces. Features include an integrated fifth wheel assembly made from XF-80 high-tensile steel bolted to the bottom rail, an extruded rear corner post that has a 9-inch-wide by ⅜-inch-thick rear face, two-speed landing gear connected to 8 crossmembers with cross-bracing and inset lights, the company says.
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Travis Body and Trailer

Houston-based Travis Body and Trailer Inc. offers aluminum live floor trailers and aluminum tipper trailers. Sizes range from 45 feet to 53 feet long and 96 inches to 102 inches wide, and have capacities ranging from 97 cubic yards to more than 130 cubic yards, the company says. Features include aluminum construction, solid welded sides, optional Keith or Hallco floors, and Travis hydraulic flip tarps, the company says.
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Trinity Trailer

Trinity Trailer, Boise, Idaho, manufactures the 14,300-pound Eagle Bridge trailer. Features include a 61-inch-wide chain and flap conveyor unloading system; 42-, 45- and 48-feet lengths; and a capacity of up to 133 cubic yards. Base weights range from 14,000 pounds (lbs) to 21,000 lbs, and a stainless steel model is available, the company says.
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Vantage Trailers

Vantage Trailers Inc., Katy, Texas, has introduced a smooth-side tipper trailer featuring no center bar. The trailer is double-tapered from front to rear, includes sizes from 45 feet to 53 feet, and features capacities from 117 cubic yards to 145 cubic yards, the company says.
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Western Trailer

Western Trailer, Boise, Idaho, offers live floor trailers. Models include 45-foot, two-axle units weighing 14,660 lbs; 48-foot, tri-axle units weighing 17,420 lbs; and 53-foot flat-floor quad-axle units weighing 16,560 lbs. The company also manufactures tipper trailers, which include possum belly, step-deck and flat-floor models. The 48-inch possum belly weighs 12,800 lbs and has a 150-cubic-yard capacity, the company says.
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Wilkens Industries

Wilkens Industries Inc., Morris, Minn., offers Load Runner steel and aluminum live floor transfer trailers. Trailer lengths range from 40 to 53 feet long, and capacities range from 75 to 145 cubic yards, the company says.
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