Air ride used to be $.15/axle/mile surcharge. Air ride trailer = $.30/mile, air ride tractor and trailer $.60/mile.
What exactly is "Air Ride Equipped"
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Hence the nickname "Panty Dropper", designated to many air ride equipped trailers.KnightMare84 Thanks this. -
Trucks are designed to carry several times their own weight. An empty semi-trailer's tandem axles weigh roughly 10,000 lbs on a scale. But loaded to the legal max, they're at 34,000. So in the old days they had leaf springs that were stiff enough to handle 34,000 going down the road. So when the trailer was empty, it bounces all over the place.
Air ride was invented to solve that problem. Rubber air bags replace the leaf springs, and a control valve automatically adjusts the amount of air pressure in the bags. When there's a heavy load, there's more air pressure in them. When empty, there's less air so it softens the ride.
Every one of my company's tractors and trailers have air ride, but we don't advertise that. It's pretty much standard these days. -
Air ride on the tractor keeps my fillings in my teeth.
I charge extra for all the illegals I put in my trailer, since it's air ride.
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There is no accurate answer. Spring ride trailers are obsolete and as they fall apart they get scrapped. Air ride is standard now, on most equipment. And that has YRC executives upset, since they prefer their equipment to be as ratty as possible. (Up until the early 2000's, Roadway was still buying trucks without power steering.)
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