There is over weight and there is over weight
With all the discussions of SRW vs DRW, wether or not it is ok to be over the GVWR or the GAWR, I though it might be fun to note that truckers have some of the same issues. :) Overweight semi truck
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Z-Peller wrote:
Only a Cat 3406???....buddy back in the 80's had a Freightliner cabover with a "Cat 3408/ 18 speed RoadRanger" in it pulling 140'000lbs A-train beer wagons thru BC mountains. If that thing stopped on a hill tires would chirp & bounce and start folding up asphalt getting going again.
3408's and 1693's were obsolete 40 years ago. You cannot even get parts today. Hard enough getting 3406 parts in as much as Cat quit producing the engine family after the Tier 4 debacle.
Usually, rolling up asphalt results in a twisted driveshaft.
