Posted by JD Seller on January 19, 2013 at 18:56:55 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: Re: Truck Questions posted by samn40 on January 19, 2013 at 17:31:34:
It is about ride and being able to work on them. Your trucks do not get driven the miles ours do. A long haul for your trucks would be maybe a few hundred Kilometers. Here that is just a short days driving. The cab over type of trucks ride rough as heck. Having the front axle out from under the cab makes them ride much better. Plus with the cab overs you are the first on the scene of an accident.
Here a five hundred mile (850 K) haul is kind of normal for an over the road truck. Also trucks with a million miles are not uncommon. A 130,000- 150,000 per year are common on over the road trucks.
The longer hoods on the US trucks makes the engine maintenance much easier. We do not have the narrow roads you do and therefore there is no advantage to having a stub nose truck anymore. There used to be much shorter total length laws here. Those got changed about twenty years ago. Many of the western states allow double 53 foot trailers. So the total length can be 120 feet. You would never be able to use that kind of truck/trailer combination in Europe.
You see very few cab over trucks here any more. I don't think there have been any new ones built in about ten years.
As far as dump trucks they are getting longer here. There is no advantage to real long stright trucks here. If you need that much load we go to a semi tractor trailer combintaion. There are some straight dump truck trailer combintaions but I do not see the advantage of them.
Out on the West coast here you do see some straight dump trucks that pull a pup trailer. They are called a transfer dump truck. When they dump they unhook the pup trailer. They then go dump the truck and then come back an roll the pup trailer's bed into the truck and go dump it. So they can haul the total load like a semi trailer but get into job sites like a standard truck. There are some of these that pull two trailers.
Then you have the Michagan truck axle trains. They can hual up to 154,000 lbs. That is one in the last picture.
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