Trailer deck

[grodudulle77]

Hello, is somebody knows what kind of deck , we may find with a dry van trailer ? Rather we find wooden planks or wooden panel ? 

Edited January 31, 2020 by grodudulle77

[Jim B]

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.  Are you looking for something like this:

http://www.modeltruckin.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_144&products_id=1583

Or maybe this: http://www.modeltruckin.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_144&products_id=1584

I don't know what shipping to France would be.

[grodudulle77]

1 hour ago, Jim B said:

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.  Are you looking for something like this:

http://www.modeltruckin.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_144&products_id=1583

Or maybe this: http://www.modeltruckin.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_144&products_id=1584

I don't know what shipping to France would be.

Hello Jim, thank you for your reply , i would like to know if a dry van deck is made with planks or with panels, i already get the wooden foils to make the trailer deck.?

[TarheelRick]

I am not really sure if this is a relevant answer, but all the dry vans I have been inside of had steel floors.  It seems to me a wood floor would be too easily destroyed in a dry van.  Moving stuff in and out with a forklift, for instance, would cut gouges in the floor, which it sometimes does to steel floors.  Maybe someone with more trucking experience will come on board and clarify this for you.

[Jim B]

3 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

I am not really sure if this is a relevant answer, but all the dry vans I have been inside of had steel floors.  It seems to me a wood floor would be too easily destroyed in a dry van.  Moving stuff in and out with a forklift, for instance, would cut gouges in the floor, which it sometimes does to steel floors.  Maybe someone with more trucking experience will come on board and clarify this for you.

Ricky, are those modern trailers?  The might have used planks back in the 1970s.

[grodudulle77]

4 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

I am not really sure if this is a relevant answer, but all the dry vans I have been inside of had steel floors.  It seems to me a wood floor would be too easily destroyed in a dry van.  Moving stuff in and out with a forklift, for instance, would cut gouges in the floor, which it sometimes does to steel floors.  Maybe someone with more trucking experience will come on board and clarify this for you.

Thank you for your reply Ricky, i’m not sure that dry van trailer has usually a metal deck, i know this is the case with reefer trailer , because for sanitary reasons,  regularly you have to wash the deck. According to me, wood is strong enough , you find it with flatbed trailers but i wonder if there are different types of wooden deck .

[DRIPTROIT 71]

On 1/30/2020 at 9:20 PM, grodudulle77 said:

Hello, is somebody knows what kind of deck , we may find with a dry van trailer ? Rather we find wooden planks or wooden panel ? 

My experience with van trailers is from the 80's. Most of the ones that I had dealings with had wood floors. The only metal or aluminum floors that I saw were on refers. I'm not saying that this was the rule, just my experience. The boards were planks made of narrow boards glued together. You can see the narrow strips in the planks. And yes they would get holes and have to be patched.

 

[highway]

On 1/31/2020 at 5:08 AM, TarheelRick said:

I am not really sure if this is a relevant answer, but all the dry vans I have been inside of had steel floors.  It seems to me a wood floor would be too easily destroyed in a dry van.  Moving stuff in and out with a forklift, for instance, would cut gouges in the floor, which it sometimes does to steel floors.  Maybe someone with more trucking experience will come on board and clarify this for you.

Rick, I'm not sure what dry vans you've been in but all the ones I've been in have had wood floors. I'm not saying that they may not be a special purpose trailer, but every one I hauled during the 18 years I drove truck were just like the ones Brian posted above. You are correct, over the years, the floors to show their signs of wear, but the aluminum floors in reefer trailers do too as do the steel rub rails at the bottom of the walls in all of them. The real fun is having an older trailer and listening to that wood floor creak and moan as the forklift goes in and out just hoping it stays together! 

[grodudulle77]

14 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

My experience with van trailers is from the 80's. Most of the ones that I had dealings with had wood floors. The only metal or aluminum floors that I saw were on refers. I'm not saying that this was the rule, just my experience. The boards were planks made of narrow boards glued together. You can see the narrow strips in the planks. And yes they would get holes and have to be patched.

 

Hello Brian , thank you for your reply , precise explanations and sharp pictures are going to help me a lot ! I am making the Amt Fruehauf van trailer , not an easy kit but nice trailer .?                                        Thank you all .