Truck Dually Wheels
After looking at one ton trucks with dually wheels, I prefer the one ton trucks with single rear wheels. What would I be giving up not getting the dually wheels?
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Veebyes wrote:
I see The Mad Norsky has not forgotten.
for the benefit of transamz9 & others who think that beefing up a SRW with airbags & such compensates for real extra width & stability when faced with a real emergency that cannot be ovecome with pulling power or braking power either, here it is.
Hurricane force sustained gust of wind hitting a heavy 5er broadside. The 5er had something like 80gal water in the low mounted tank & also a heavily loaded 12 cuft fridge on the windward side.
This is why I get rather passionate whenever the SRW vs DRW subject comes up. I will never forget the sound of the kingpin tearing out of the 5th wheel.
That was no 'barely meets specs for the trailer' hitch. It was a 20,000# hitch.
The truck stayed up on the highway. It mowed down a couple of those snow posts but it did not go down with the trailer.
Appears to me that the 5er hitch might have saved the truck
