Alright guys, you have shown me alot of options on here. You guys are great. One last question for everyone. I will have to tell you the whole story and then you will have a better idea. I am currently in iraq, with an engineer company. We are 70 days out of re-deploying back home. I live in alaska. I have an 02 2500, and a 98 2500. I have a 20ft car trailer and am going to have to buy a gooseneck. I am picking up a 42x70 steel building in illinois for a shop back in alaska. The shop weighs 22,000lbs. The problem I have is that I dont know which trailer to buy. I have two options: 1) drive my truck down with the car trailer with my 98 2500 to illinois, buy a 20k trailer in texas that was made for me, pick up the 20k gooseneck and drive both trucks back to alaska. 2) is drive my 02 down to illinois empty, buy a 30k gooseneck with 3 axles, pull the whole thing back to alaska at 55 mph or slower when I hit some bad spots. Sell the trailer when I get back to alaska. To put on another axle, it costs 1450 bucks more. What would you guys do? Is that way to much weight to pull back to alaska with my 2500 truck?

 

If I had a buddy ready for a road trip I'd opt for #1.

 

Option #1 is a lot safer way to go . IMHO

wayne

 

I don't understand what Texas has to do with picking up a trailer, there are a lot of trailer manufacters in Indiana and Kentucky. Anyway between those two I'd certainly choose #1 because it is much safer than driving with that much of a load.

 

Option #3 let me pick up the new shop in Illinois and bring it to you.

Wife and I get to see Alaska you get the shop delivered.

I use my 35’ three axle gooseneck and we booth win.

 

While it sounds like alot of fun, for the money you are going to spend it would be cheaper to have it hauled up to you freight.

On a side note I have had 18,000 on my 24K trailer before. This made for about 36,000 GCVW, you for sure want a dually for a load like that and some extra power to pull it is nice.

 

I would go with Bigfoots option, sounds like a win win situation. Goodluck,,,Rick

 

Sounds good to me. I had the opportunity to do a run-around for a TDR member. I drove from NJ to OK to pick up a gooseneck horse trailer and brought it to Alaska

Maybe he wants to drive? If you have the time, it's an adventure.

But a 22,500 shop plus a 7500 truck plus a 7500 trailer... that is HEAVY. Please do not do that on a single rear wheel.... With 19.5's and Load range H tires you will still barely be making it. Hope you have 4.10's and a 6spd...

Also, going to Texas to pick up a trailer is definitely going out of the way. Texas has GREAT trailers but I'm not sure the drive there would make it worth it...

What kind of shop is it? Sounds like fun.

 

Too much for a 2500. do it with 2 loads. It's better to be safe and make it without trouble than to overload it and blow it part way home. You would be at the mercy of the shop that got it's meat hooks into you for the repair and tow bill.

 

I have a small trailer business in Illinois and I will tell you first hand that there are an unlimited number of good trailer cutom builders in Missouri, kentucky and Tenesee, not to mention the ones right here in Illinois. One just down the road from me is Trotters, they custom build as big as you want. They do alot of construction trailers. I also have a guy who will do one in his free time when he's not busy and they are all way over built. He custom builds the big fertilizer trucks for a living. Adding the extra miles going to Texas for a trailer seems insane with fuel and maintenance cost being what they are.

 

Hey everyone, I am going to have a trailer delivered to wisconsin. Let me know if you can beat this. It is a 30ft gooseneck with a 5ft dovetail. It has a pierced frame, spare tire, any color, and a chain box. The price is 7100 dollars. The tire was 150, and the pierced frame was 500 that he threw in. It was on ebay. Any trailer manufacturers beat that price? I am going to do the 2 truck thing because you all think it is too much. I kind of did too, but just needed a second, third, fourth, etc opinion. I am going to pull this with the 315's as they have a higher rating, plus when I drive in 5th, I wont be running it too high at 55mph. Thanks guys. Cant wait to get home. 64 days. Then have to put a new clutch in, new turbo, mach 4's, and a new exhaust brake for the new turbo. Edit Thanks guys.
Bill

 

Sure, I'll be interested in the Jake!........PM me when you get it unbolted!........Is the actuator in good shape?.........that is the one thing I don't like about those Jakes.

 

It should be good. When I was home on leave in sep, it worked like a champ. Never had a problem with it.