ABS plastic - baler

Unless they changed the wieght restrictions 40,000lbs is the max for a tractortrailer. I thought freight charges where based by the pound so how does freight come into play? Unless you can't get 40 bales in one trailer. I think I'll aske my plastic guy how he does it, I know he has an upright baler they bales everything with, cardboard,paper, all kinds of plastic. I think I hijacked this thread,sorry.

Originally Posted by happyscraper

Unless they changed the wieght restrictions 40,000lbs is the max for a tractortrailer. I thought freight charges where based by the pound so how does freight come into play? Unless you can't get 40 bales in one trailer. I think I'll aske my plastic guy how he does it, I know he has an upright baler they bales everything with, cardboard,paper, all kinds of plastic. I think I hijacked this thread,sorry.

That's really the problem. Yours bales need to be dense enough so that you can actually fit the max weight (Ideally 40K) in a truck. So a 53' truck has approx. 4,000 cubic feet of space --- so you need t compact the plastic to 10 pounds per cubic foot --- that is assuming that you can stack all the bales to use all 4000 ft. That make sense??