Stacking Shingles and the Weight of it all

Our posts about receiving the roof truss delivery and the video showing what it is like swinging the trusses into place were such a big hit that we thought we would continue with the roof theme. What we have here is a picture of our crew loading shingles onto the roof. We use a variety of specialized large equipment to build our houses. This truck is a tandem (two axles with four wheels each) with an additional drop axle (four additional wheels that are at the rear of the truck in the raised position) flatbed with a boom crane located at the front of the bed. It is capable of loading a full pallet of shingles up to a second or third story roof. The job that this truck performs is delivering shingles to the job site. You may have seen them driving down the road, but have you every witnessed one in action? This particular delivery was for an extremely large roof that covered 15,000 square feet of living space.