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Re: Re: Tractor loading revisited.
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 21, 2004 at 05:41:10 from (209.226.247.52):
In Reply to: Re: Tractor loading revisited. posted by rustyfarmall on May 21, 2004 at 05:11:41:
Rusty: Right on nothing worse than an improperly balanced load. I was at a safety meeting once, they showed photos of a Peterbuilt with B Train grossing 140,000 lbs., upset on an interchange ramp at about 15 mph. The driver said he had been fighting this load for some 100 miles, and was exhausted. He did say the final move that caused the upset was steering correction. Clearly that unit had much more weight on rear trailer axles than on the rest of the axles. Another item some of these guys should try is loading a 1086 with cab and duals back on. They will soon change their minds, about backing on. On my 40' trailer many times I have loaded 1066 with cab, duals and 20' folding wing disk harrow behind, chained it down and had the operator disking 10 miles away in 45 min. Same with 5 bottom semi-mount plow, you have to load that one from an angle to make it backable coming off. You don't use side boards when the next load could be 12' wide. My trailers were all full width loading ramps thus narrow fronts were no problem. Keep the ramps long, steepness will not win you any awards.
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