10-4 I have thought about the snake eyes for my drives also . I keep everything at 105 steers and drives

Originally Posted by chalupa

Keep that air pressure up in those tires too Marine. My local chrome shop sell the equalizers for $75 an axle.......

If your on a line haul then reconfigure the 5th wheel and suck it up behind the fairings, the closer to the wings, the better....but the worse the ride.

One more point: Late model trailer brakes don't remain fully unlocked at less than 100-105 lbs air. Pinch the gov and make sure you have 120lbs running. Also chase every single leak with soap or snoop. That comp pulls about 10 horse running, same with alt. too, make sure batt cons. are clean and batts full of water.

These will all help over the long term.

Great advice about making sure there is no leaks in the entire brake system because 1 slightly dragging brake can cost you several 10ths in fuel mileage and most drivers don't even know it. Just think the trailer feels heavy. My system has 120 lbs on it and I just changed all my brake diaphrams on my tractor for PM purposes because 1 went bad. Keeping the brake system well maintained will pay for itself in saved fuel.

A temp gun is a great tool to have on the truck to find dragging brakes like this one I bought at Harbor Freight for $40....




Link to website: http://www.harborfreight.com/non-con...ter-96451.html

Where I move alot of different trailers, this is the most used tool on my truck and you can even find a slack tire with it after a short pull heating everything up.

That's great advise about the gun dice

Originally Posted by chalupa

, Pumpkin pushes to 650 - 700 as does JB.

Schneider buys their trucks w/o a warranty. They have their own fleet of maintence people and they purchase all their own fleet trucks w/o warrantys which drops the price to about $75,000 per brand new tractor they buy. At leaset is the way it was when I worked there up till 2008 when I left...... maybe they do have warranty's on the newer emissions trucks, but I don't think so because I have yet to see one sitting at a dealership for repairs.

For those of us that have the ones on our drives, they now have the front wheel covers to match.

I love my Stainless Steel Wheel Covers that all I do is wipe them down with Windex to shine like a mirror.



More info here: http://www.realwheels.com/aerostyle.html


Talked to Real Wheels that they will be shipping them near the end of the month and will cost around $200 for a pair.
I don't care as much about the fuel mileage as the mirror finish of the stainless steel that is real easy to keep up with windex and a rag.

No more wheel polishers.