Anybody consider a semi for a tow vehicle?

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.

transamz9 wrote:

06Fargo wrote:
Class 8 trucks are duallys usually, except for the ones that are single rear wheel.

As long as you get a dually one you will be fine.

We are looking at class 8's - saw one with door sticker GCWR 140,000lbs.

The missus couldn't possibly pack...

Yeah, don't get a SRW class 8, you'll never here the end of it.:D

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. It rode way better with just the four outer aluminums and without the added unsprung weight of those other four steel inner wheels. His huge air/disk brakes were also cooled better because they were not hidden inside a wheel. Service guys loved the set up as everything was much easier to view and work on.

Super singles didn't quite catch on over here as compared to the European and U.K.. Cost and availability were prohibitive.

06Fargo wrote:
Class 8 trucks are duallys usually, except for the ones that are single rear wheel.

As long as you get a dually one you will be fine.

We are looking at class 8's - saw one with door sticker GCWR 140,000lbs.

The missus couldn't possibly pack...

Yeah, don't get a SRW class 8, you'll never here the end of it.:D

Class 8 trucks are duallys usually, except for the ones that are single rear wheel.

As long as you get a dually one you will be fine.

We are looking at class 8's - saw one with door sticker GCWR 140,000lbs.

The missus couldn't possibly pack...

Check out Horse Trailer World and look under trucks for sale, they have a lot of the Freightliners for sale there and a variety of prices. You can still find a class 8 truck ready to pull a 5th wheel cheaper.

buta4 wrote:
Check out SPORTCHASSIS trucks - and drool!

Here's another site to view.

2L Custom Trucks

buta4 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
The price would be my bet. That's what I think of when someone says "Sportchassis trucks".

Agreed, but there's gotta be some used ones available somewhere as was my thought when I posted my reply.

I bought my Sportchassis used. It was 3 years old and had 32k miles on it. I got it for about half the retail price of a new one.

I'm sure there are, but when the new ones cost as much as they do, used ones are also going to be way up there.

fj12ryder wrote:
The price would be my bet. That's what I think of when someone says "Sportchassis trucks".

Agreed, but there's gotta be some used ones available somewhere as was my thought when I posted my reply.

The price would be my bet. That's what I think of when someone says "Sportchassis trucks".