I have noticed over the years that some people call flatbeds...well, flatbeds and some people call
them rollbacks. Just curious what the majority of people call them.
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Posts: 6321 05/22/2008 17:27
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Carriers?
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kj tow |
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Posts: 3 05/22/2008 17:38 |
Yea, that's right. Ok, so now we have 3, Flatbed, rollback and car carrier. Anymore LOL
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I call em flatbeds. Most people round here do.
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Tilt and Slides over this side of the pond
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My opinion, Flatbeds went out in the 80's as Rollbacks became a more excepted term. Then a few years ago started hearing carrier used more often as many
felt it provided a more professional image. I'm kinda leaning towards the Tilt Tray cause it confuses many on this side of the pond.
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I call em carriers as I deal mostly in hauling loads. The terminology is more exact when you are dealing with items that are not "cars"....
The trailer I operate is a hydraulic step deck. Many brands, the one I use is a Landoll. Kaylin Siebert, Traileze and many others also make those as well as fixed, RGN, tiltbeds and yet other styles. Here the lumber delivery trucks use tiltbeds. They only tilt to unload the wood as the load slides off while the truck drives forward. RGN is a type of lowboy. Had problems in the past with people confusing lowboy and hydraulic step deck. This causes delays as well as hurt feelings...... 
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The term "flatbed" originated before the rollbacks existed. This was the term used for the dove tail flatbed car hauler with slide out ramps and insertable boom at the rear for using a sling. Rollbacks is the term most often used in my area. Carriers seems to be gaining ground.
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I call them Head aches.... actually...I don't differentiate any differently for any of the trucks......
Well anyway, we typically call them rollbacks but sometimes the others as well.
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Posts: 1226 05/22/2008 22:15
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we call them flatbeds....around here
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Ron - there are actually a few of them still running around here!!!
Ironically one is owned by an exotic car restoration/sales co. Talk about a contradiction in terms....... 
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Posts: 2095 05/23/2008 05:48 Australia |
Its just the same in Oz except we call them Tilttrays .......
Except a Tilt tray tips up and back in one motion via one ram.. Nowadays they are Tilt slide trays or Tilt slides of course one set of rams raises another pushes off.... Still they are both often refered to as Tiltrays until we talk all techno then we differentiate again.. Them dovetail thingys are often called Banana backs downunder.... |
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Posts: 199 05/23/2008 07:07 |
i just call them towtrucks lol no for me its tilttrays |
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Posts: 1942 05/23/2008 07:33 
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Carrier or rollback
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Posts: 1353 05/23/2008 07:50 Kentucky |
flatbed or rollback but for the longest tine I would say 1990 to about 1996 some people would only know them as Jerr-Dan trucks
 I guess thats all they
knew them by because they were the ones people would have.
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Posts: 474 05/23/2008 08:33
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Flatbeds around here.
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The term rollback came from some of the early ones having rollers that was attached to bed that rolled along subframe. ATTACs was one of the brands.
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Posts: 221 05/23/2008 11:42 WreckMaster #061010 |
we call them flatbeds
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Posts: 2686 05/23/2008 15:51
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Flatbeds around here. Some of the early trucks that were used by implement companies just tilted and didn't rollback. They had a tail that folded down
underneath that came up to make the bed long enough to reach the ground. Some of them had a pretty steep load angle.
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Posts: 39 05/23/2008 17:39 |
we call em flat beds up here in the great north.
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Posts: 3168 05/23/2008 18:15
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rollbacks.
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