Found one of my rig all hooked up. Ill take some pics of my 28ft enclosed trailer to show. Its as basic and plain as it gets and one like it can be bought very reasonable if you check around

 

Looks real similar to mine, and I love mine. Tows great. Mine's only 18ft though:

 

It is supposed to have the heart beat flat line under it like this. I had it on my back window in 2002 when I was at JDM

 

Suavy, you forgot to say God bless!

God bless.

 

Not for a vehicle... but would easily convert to a nice race trailer. Used for work.


48' x 12'

47hp Turbo Deisel Gen.
5-Ton AC/Heat Pump
Full living area (shower-shink-stool-microwave-fridge-hot water heater-etc...)
dual 1,000 watt lights out back
And everything else a custom trailer would have...









Truck looks good. We pull a 44' trailer with one very similar.

 

Hows you truck do on pulling power? i ordered a edge for mine it needed more umphh to pull my 53'er when loaded up a hill what package does yours have? mine has the monro bed and air ride suspinsion. BTW i need to get these stripes off mine i think it looks 10x better without them


bring yourself over to thedieselplace.com its a chevy diesel forum lots of good reading over there

 

This one is plain. Just got the normal cloth interior and stock suspension. The air-ride would have been nice, but figured the FL-60 for the other trailer will be replaced by an M2... so the smaller trailer can get the FL-60 with air ride and the 6 speed Allison.

As far as power, its ok. On the big hills like you said it needs more power. So far, the transmission has been holding up great. Used to have a Ford F550 to pull the trailer and the transmission was going out on it quick. Overall, the size of the truck just handles the weight better than the old Ford did. The price of the truck was actually pretty good... cheaper than a lot of F350 ford dually's.


I'll check out the other forum, it would be nice to get some chip that works good but doesn't overload the motor.

 

Here's my truck pulling the wifes '53:



Here's the wifes truck pulling my '87 GT:



Trailer is a TopHat with a bulldog hitch, elec. brakes, winch, etc.

 

And here it is pulling his buddies L to Kansas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

You guys with the over 1 tons,Like the c4500 adn the FL what are you doing with the weight stations and fuel permits?also what about a log book.I thought anything over 10k was commercial adn you had to drive under the DOT regs?So for hijacking the thread just curious that is the only hold up keeping me from upgrading.Stan

 

Both the FL-60 and C4500 are full commercial vehicles. They have the ICC and DOT numbers, as well as registration and inspection. Since this is the case, the drivers have CDL's and are required to run Log Books and check in at every weigh station (most of the routes dont have weigh stations... so its normally not a big deal). I think 26,000 is the cut off on being a commercial vehicle or not. Obviously the FL-60 and 48' trailer hits the 26,000lb mark easily (the hitch weight is 14,000lb just over the axle alone on the truck) and the 4500 is right at the 26,000-30,000 mark depending on how its loaded. But since both rigs are for a business, it was required for the commercial vehicle.

As far as recreational use... its very iffy. Right now I do not think its required. Might have to put "not for hire" on the truck though. It apply's to the motorhomes... they are well over 26,000 lb but are not required to run with CDL's. (Cali is working on that though ).

I would get a CDL handbook or check with your local DOT office. You should not be required to mess with any of the DOT stuff as long as its for recreational use.

 

I've got two Renegade Freightliner conversions, one on a Fl-112 chassis and the other on a Columbia. One pulls a 38' stacker and the other a 40' stacker, and are each between 80-90 feet bumper to bumper. They're titled as recreational vehicles so we don't stop at weigh stations or have CDL's. I haven't been stopped yet (knock on wood).

 

Mine is 18' and is about 1700 lbs.
I pull it with a 2005 F150

 

We have not for hire on the side of my truck. Noone that drives it for me has CDL's except my dad. I have driven it personally as far west as dallas south to miami east to south boston virginia and had no trouble not stoping at the scales. I have the proper x2 tag on it. If they ever tighten up on the laws ill just go back with a f350 and put some air bags over the axles on it so it can do what i need it too.

 

They have a website???