Fortunately no, I got lucky. The dealer put it on a lift and made sure and then I of course looked at the front end underneath pretty thoroughly as well.
That looked scary. Almost looked like he got sideswiped backing up.
Hard to say - as far as I can tell, the chances for damage are about equal for loading and unloading. The only way to know for sure is to inspect the underside before it comes off the truck.
And in my opinion, this is the major problem. The cars may be loaded properly from the rail yard but since there may be other dropoffs prior to the destination of the 350 the trucker decides he doesn't have time to do it right and loads the car improperly. I bet this would be the case with the CO hanging off the back of he hauler.
My car trailer has a 4' long dove tail that is 11" from the top of the trailer floor to the ground. The ramps that came with the trailer are 6' long and when I tried loading the car onto my trailer the bumper would of hit, mind you I haven't installed my front splitter yet because I'm waiting to get a GT350R splitter. I don't trust using boards because I'm always worried they will break or slap the bottom side of my car or slip out. I bought a set of RACE RAMPS. These are AWESOME! they are very light (about 5 pounds each) made of foam and the front end has a ton of room for clearance. They are not cheap, but either is our cars. With my steel ramps and the race ramps the angle is very gradual and the total length is about 11 -12 feet. I'm glad I bought them. They have a spray on bed liner coating on them and can be used in gravel also, my driveway is gravel and I thought the stones would of punctured the bottom but nothing happened to them at all. Also it rises the car almost 7" off the ground at its highest point if you need to use them in your garage. I plan on getting their drive up system that gets the whole car 14" off the ground.
