Looking for Recommendations on Floor Jacks

Bunker wrote:
I am going on a long road trip and I am trying prepare. Do you all use a floor jack when you have blow outs or do you just use the truck's jack? I was looking at getting 1 1/2 ton floor jack to carry with me.

Thanks.

As others have said, floor jacks aren't the best to use in most situations you'll find yourself in if you have a flat. And, frankly, you'd likely need more than a 1.5t floor jack to lift a heavier FW.

Me, I started off with a 4t bottle jack and found out the hard way that it would =not= lift one end of a 5200 lb axle when loaded. Ended up using my truck's OEM jack and it worked like a champ, though =lots= of cranking. After that, I bought a 12t "trucker" bottle jack and have carried both since then. With my current KZ, with 4-point leveling, I'd have zero problem in using the jacks to lift up the rig to change a tire. My curb side tires are usually 2" off the ground when I level in the street in front of my house, so using them to jack up for the short time it takes to change a tire is no strain on them, at all. I just need to play with the controls to see if I can manually level side-to-side as well as fore and aft.

Lyle