I've used an 18' Budget truck for my LBC. I built wheel chocks out of 2" x
4", screwed into the wood truck floor with lag bolts. Ramps are 2" x 12"
with L brackets along the top sides and steel reinforcing plates underneath -
about 15' long. Supported ground to ramp x2 at 1/3rd along length with 2" x
12" braces. Hefty hinges at truck bed end of ramps screw into wooden truck
bed floor to secure. All this from Home Depot and scrap yard for under $100
and about 4 hours labor. For loading/unloading I just drive around to a berm
or adjacent parking lots where elevations are different - min 2' to reduce
steepness of angle into truck.
All this correspondence has prompted me to think what the respective
insurance companies would say in the event of a nasty............. Null &
void?
John Layzell
Miami, Florida
1925 Alvis SC 12/50 (with original FWB) - oldest Alvis in North America
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