Where is everyone #5

Kind of what I was figuring out.

 

22.5 low-pro would probably save a few hundred pounds for sure. Not much else you can really do besides getting a truck with a smaller motor.

 

Fixed it.

 

Tell you what ol' son, round here they're gonna pay for the talent, not the weight.

Lol... might even BS myself with a line like that.

Anyway...those rates look like they're about half of what they should be. I can't believe they get anyone to work that cheap.

 

Looks like a fast way to wear out a truck and a checkbook.

 

You will loose 550lbs with 18 aluminum vs steel wheel .

 

@Lysdexis I never wrote down my tare weights on anything I kept from New Hope, but the two C-13 short hood 379's (#223 and #247) I drove were both in the 28,500-29,000 empty range with a tandem aluminum pneumatic (the MAC one). The second truck (#247) was 3.73 on 22.5 rubber with a 34k rear (not sure how it was ever legal in Canada), 12k steer, 48" mid-rise, 120 gallon step tanks. Aside from the little C-12 378 they also had, it was the lightest truck on the fleet by far.

I can't say for sure but the couple times I pulled their 48' tandem Timpte, I was tare near 28k. And I'm not a light lad either. I'm sure if you could find a C-12/13 late 90's/early 00's CAT-powered 378/379 with a 36" coffin sleeper and every lightweight option under the sun you could run some pretty good weights.

 

Lmao

And yeah I imagine theres got to be more to it than that. Thats quite a bit less than I make and I'm home nightly.

Me big boy. Coffin or any flat top for that matter is out of the question on something I'd be in for a week at a time

 

Then I think you're done hooped.

I could manage a coffin sleeper if I was running a regional operation with the potential of staying in the truck overnight due to weather or whatever, but not running regular OTR.

 

I could deal with it if I might have to stay in it once a week maybe twice. But every night is out of the question.