Anybody consider a semi for a tow vehicle?
Been looking around for a newer truck to pull our new 5th wheel and several people I know have gone and purchased semi trucks for towing. Have been pointed towards a single drive axle type truck for b...
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rjstractor wrote:bstark wrote:
Actually; a friend ordered a new Mack Vision 630 in 04 with full condo sleeper and auto-shift and immediately removed his inner wheels on both of his tandems. He consulted with Mack and got all the engineering authorization to maintain warranty due to his never using it for commercial and never hooking the thing to anything heavier than his Mountain Aire.
That's interesting but I find it a little odd that your friend ordered a truck with tandems just to pull an RV. I wonder why he didn't get a single axle. For RV duty you could probably run SRW on a single axle tractor and still have plenty of tire capacity.
His reasoning was that before retiring and still owning a home he was doing a lot of Provincial/State Park camping during vacations with shorter stays and weather be damned stuff. He felt without the inter-locks and power-divider option of all four in the back driving, he might not get his front axle out of some softer spots.
It has proven to ride significantly better than a single axle with duals for side to side pitching and rougher roads as well.
He's very happy with it going on 12 years of snowbirding now.
