I can see the reason why they would do that and that might be a reason why most are u bolted to the chassis but the fact is the welds will crack I have repaired enough of them to know this from box trailers through to semis so I would only be running a real quick cold pass across it with sweet f a penetration as it only needs to act as a seal so moisture doesn’t get in between the parent materials
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