Effect of weight on braking for trucks.
Instead of further morphing the other thread, I thought it would be interesting to discuss the effect of weight and speed for trucks since we obviously increase our weight when we add TCs. Obviousl...
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JimK-NY wrote:
It should not be a surprise. A heavy load will greatly extend stopping distance and will be hard on brake life.
Braking is one of the reasons to consider a diesel engine. My last service visit for my 2010 Ram 2500 was at over 70K miles. Almost all of those miles were with a camper and a total weight of over 13K pounds. A lot of the driving was in the mountain States out west. The service report showed I had over 50% of the original brake life remaining.
I have never seen a report comparing the braking effect of same size engines, same gears, where 1 stops air flowing in, and the other the air flowing out.
