70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
There are all kinds of different combos and some still come down to the DOT man and his tape measure. I was purely going off of fed bridge law formulas.
OK you truckers...
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Old Man with a Hat
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Even a trained chimpanzee would have known better.
Big blubber
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commando1
Old Man with a Hat
He's obviously on his lunch break. Don't bother him til it's over!
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
He is taking his mandatory DOT 30 min break thanks wall mart, Schneider, Werner, Swift thanks to your stupidity I have to show a 30 min break every 8 hrs. Or the gates of hell my just pop open.
Twostick. Did you ever cross the Ambassador bridge and see a 9 axle rig running around the Motor City grossing around 180 bushel legally? And you thought it waz the thawing-freezing, and salt in the winterz that screwed up the roadz in Michigan didn't you? Has just ah bit tah do with all the juice the auto industry carries with the mitten state legislature. We used to see them dummyz tryin' to sneak 4 coilz out of Gary on old US12 and make the Michigan line east of the chicken house in the wee hourz. You know one ah them steel haulerz got so crabby one time that he figured out a way to run down that brick chicken house and get away clean back in the early '70s? I can't make this stuff up, true
twostick
Senior Member
They used to pull stunts like that coming out of Quebec with B-trains. You can gross 140,000 lbs legal on that combo here. That equals 100,000 payload +/- and there were Quebec steel carriers that would load 200k and go.
Kevin
Kevin
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Believe it or not, I never heard the term b-train in all my years until I heard it from Brian/thrashingcows
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
You HAVE to show a 30 min. break which would be in reality, pulling over, take a leak, grab a cup of coffee, and sit in your cab for 20 more min. twiddling with yourself.
Doing the same thing while waiting two hours to get unloaded doesn't count.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
What did you call them?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Doubles.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Both A's and B's?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Another term I never heard.
What are you referring to when you say A's and B's?
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
A Train is pintle hook and dolly for the second trailer. B Train is fifth wheel connection direct to lead trailer like Brian drives.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
This is how we say it.
We simply say, "rig", "doubles", or "triples"
If doubles, we call the short trailers "pups" and simple say "45's", "48s", "53s" or what ever for the long trailers.
And of course the "dollies" which we call when Brownie pulls them, UPS Training Wheels.
We simply say, "rig", "doubles", or "triples"
If doubles, we call the short trailers "pups" and simple say "45's", "48s", "53s" or what ever for the long trailers.
And of course the "dollies" which we call when Brownie pulls them, UPS Training Wheels.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Your turnpike double is what we call an A-train and the B-train is the same.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Got it. You Canucks.... geeze.
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Ironwolf
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Commando my friend. I'm talkin' 7 axlez+1 more lift axle front and back under a single frame plus 3 and at timez 1 more lift for the tractor. Looked like ah dam centipede which they were sometimez called. 48' flats or freight boxez. If they made the 9 axlez in the '53s when they went to the '53s I never saw any of 'um. Saw one of the freight boxez do a clover leaf at I-94 and US23 too quick one time and blew to whole top out when he went over and scatter ready to install 350 V-8s all over the place. Screwed that intersection up for ah few dayz and weather waz not involved, just stupid, Jer
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