{"id":16734,"date":"2024-11-27T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/disadvantages-of-a-conestoga-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:55:50","slug":"disadvantages-of-a-conestoga-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/disadvantages-of-a-conestoga-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Disadvantages of a Conestoga | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWidth was always a thing that I hated about them. The ones I pulled were 108&#8243; wide, anytime I had to bump a dock with it I always found myself offset to the driver&#8217;s side because I was slightly angled trying to see the rear of my trailer in the mirror. Also, Jersey has a 102&#8243; restriction on I80. I never got jammed up over it but I&#8217;m sure if DOT was being picky they would pull you. <\/p>\n<p>I hauled a lot of lumber back out of New England, a lot of it they would stack to 13&#8217;6&#8243; on an open flatbed. They&#8217;d get irritated when you came with a Conestoga cause it&#8217;d have to be a bit shorter. For steel hauling though, they were the way to go.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/disadvantages-of-a-conestoga.2516618\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Width was always a thing that I hated about them. The ones I pulled were 108&#8243; wide, anytime I had to bump a dock with it I always found myself offset to the driver&#8217;s side because I was slightly angled trying to see the rear of my trailer in the mirror. Also, Jersey has a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}