The local commercial outfit I sometimes work for uses large flat-bed trucks
(1-1.5 ton?) for bringing in the crop.
 
The beds on these trucks are about 5 feet off the ground, at least,
requiring one person to stay up there and stack the supers onto the
pallets.  (As the day goes by the height of the truck bed seems to
increase, as the supers get "heavier!")
 
This is okay, if there is always an "extra" person available, besides those
carrying supers from the hives.  I think we get something like 250 mediums
on one load.  The stacks are rolled off into the honey house with a hand
truck.
 
Another local NY guy, with a smaller operation, tows a low trailer instead,
behind a smaller truck.  This way he can load the supers right onto the
trailer, with a minumum of lifting upwards.  (Plus the trailer can be
detatched and left wherever.)  I believe he wheels the stacks off with a
hand-truck as well.
 
Anyway, can anyone offer any other points in favor of a trailer, vs. a
pickup or other bed-truck?  Besides the slight complications in driving, I
wonder if anyone has found this to be a better arrangement, at least on a
sideliner-scale.
 
My pickup has a permanently frozen tailgate, so I have fun lifting the
supers over the sides.  Fortunately it is a small truck (not full size
pickup) so it isn't too bad.
 
Best regards and thanks for any input,
 
JG