When freight is tall, trailers that carry it must be short. That’s the reason for the drop deck, a variant of the flatbed or platform trailer. A “single drop” or “step deck” has a forward down-step ...

Some years ago I stood on a truckstop's lot and watched a hot-headed driver, who seemed to be looking for something, do two U-turns with his rig. His tractor pulled a loaded flatbed trailer with a ...