Trucking in North America vs around the world

It is more than ugly.

 

get yesterday my latest model, 6 more coming on monday.
i like that drawing of T cab much better than NL version, lower cab gives more natural look, drawing is not realistic, on it fenders and axle width appears to be wider than cab. on some way it goes more similar to shape of truck below than NL, at least to me

 

98989……not mine

 

Nice but missing ballast, this way wont move anywhere

 

Wait, weren't you the one who said Mercedes had a test starting 300,000 pounds on a 10% slope? And aren't those platform trailers self propelled?

 

This truck 8x4 in real world with drawbar attached trailer can climb 7% with 550.000lbs with 57k on drive axles, which is realistic weight, of course depending on asphalt and tires. Many people would use extra ballast, to bring it to even 88k. This bring extra traction, allow extra capability but comes with cost. Traction on dry should be limiting factor of what truck can do.

Mb gives max 1100.000lbs pulling capacity on it, but with limited incline and speed.

Usually it is cheaper to avoid such scenarios and use more trucks instead

 

I was just teasing you.

 

I know.

For 8x8 mb allows gvw of 114600lbs due traction, over that you need second truck as diffs cant take more stress.
In china they do double than that, they fill tires to 15.5bar. one bent chassis above second axle and destroy truck, traction is safety factor for driveline.

 

The Chinese trucks must a pretty robust driveline as they seems to gross +400 000 punds on regular basis with a 6x4 truck pulling a 4 axle trailer. Bogie must see about 150 000 punds.