Dump truck? Double or triple axel ?

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  1. fireman451

    fireman451 Bobtail Member

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    Heard its better to get a double axel? Is this true . Looking to haul anything. Asphalt , gravel, dirt , ect
     
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  3. damutt

    damutt Road Train Member

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    welll id have either a triple or quad axle. tandem drives and 2 seperate lifatables.
    tandem will reduce what you can carry.
     
  4. Shaggy

    Shaggy Road Train Member

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    What state? Those corny politicians dictate options if your striving for maximum weight.
     
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    Hi fireman, depends on so many things. 1st, you must be thinking straight truck, no tractor trailer. In Wisconsin, everything is quad axle.( 2 tag axles, 2 drive axles), and can go almost 80 K gross. With a few exceptions, dump truck work is by weight, meaning, the more you haul( legally) the more you get paid. If you aren't getting paid by weight, (by the hour, or by the load) I'd get nothing less than a tri-axle dump( 1 tag, 2 drive axles) Dump trucks are notoriously overweight, not gross so much, but over on a axle, and a tri-axle helps you with that.
     
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  6. Big Don

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    What "semi" retired said! And DOT dearly loves to screw with aggregate haulers, because they are notorious for being over weight, loaded wrong, equipment that should not be on the road, etc. Believe me, there is nothing in the world like having to get up on hot mix with a shovel and try to readjust how it is loaded. I never had to do it, but one of the guys I worked with did. . .Got held up at the Arizona/Utah port in St. George until he got his load straightened out.

    So many rookies are working in the aggregate field, from drivers to loader operators to tower operators to "mechanics."
     
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    201 Road Train Member

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    Boy howdy, Big Don, you got that right. That hot mix is, well, HOT. I drove a fair amount of dump trucks, and many times, we had to load ourselves and on a straight dump, you almost had to pile the material on the cab protector, to get any weight on the steer, and many times, it wouldn't even touch the tailgate. Hot mix was a little different, as you load on a scale, and I'd line myself up with a mark on the wall, and it would be the same every time. Trailers were different, but straight jobs, you were always over on the drives.
     
  8. Big Don

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    I worked for an outfit called Western Rock in St. George. They ARE still in business, but ownership has changed. Their batch plant operators were as green as the rest of us. The guy that had to "readjust" his load was running an end dump, and the plant really screwed him.

    One time my own pup was in the shop, so I had a different one. They put so much weight on the tow bar, that when I got to the job sight, the dump wouldn't rise. (Thank God there were no mobile DOT around that day.) The pavers had to "help the hydraulics along" by using a hoe to help raise it. They were somewhat LESS than IMPRESSED, and told me not to bring that pup back under any circumstances. Ah, life's embarrassing moments. . .:biggrin_25523:
     
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