Flow Below Added

It does help in cross winds believe it or not. I thought it might hurt it a little but it makes a difference in the green!

 

Was not a baad looking set up if it had worked in the areas you ran. So far mine is working great and better then I had thought it would to be honest.

 

I don't run a lot of the ruff areas like you do. I know if I went into TN with those bridges it would tear them up. Also if I am running those kind of roads I will know to keep an eye on it. If an issue just put it back down.

 

I think if you have an issue where you slam on brakes it would hurt even worse because the tires cant rotate. I will be back home in the morning and will have around 5K miles with the lift axle up and have no problems. I have been from MO to MA and back to MO. Then MO to UT and back to MO. I did have new shocks put on when I had the lift axle installed on the trailer. I believe my truck maybe ride a little stiffer than what you had and that might be the reason I am not having those issues.

 

Well got back home earlier today. Gonna head back out on one of my multi stop loads I like to do on Monday. It is I believe 13K and has 4 drops two in CT and 2 in NH. So should be able to run with axle up on the whole trip and see what I can get.

I finished out this round with a little 100 mile load that was 7500 lbs. I ended up with 9.8 MPGs on that little trip. Then I decided to dead head home about 500 miles or more. Ran into very powerful storm on the way back home and that thing lasted for a 100 miles I think. Ended up really killing my MPG's on the way back. I ended up with 9.5 MPG's on that trip and should had been in the tens. Over all I got 8.8 MPG's for the total trip. Not to bad but not all the good either.