Short WB Day cab weights

We have quite a few in the yard,I'll take a look tomorrow,couple Peterbilts,a bunch of freightliners that are really short wb.

 

My truck was a daycab from factory... Well cab and chassis and has a 245" wheelbase so not short and a c15 and is listed as factory weight of 16500 would think a true daycab short wheelbase is going to come in under 15 with the right engine in it

 

I have a 1974 w9 with an 855 Cummins and 44 k rears on extended leaf walking beam with a wet kit and spoke wheels…it weighs around 16500…
A long time ago I drove a 9370 with 855 Cummins and most everything aluminum including the frame it weighed approximately 14000
Both of these were around 180 inch wb
My l9000 weighs 18900 with 3406 46k rears 20 k dual steer front and a 1/2 inch thick frame it’s got 8 aluminum wheels on the back and a wet kit it’s pretty long for a daycab at 252

 

My 89 379, 244 wb, all aluminum wheels, is about 18k. It has a 3406 with a retarder, and 18 speed, 300 gallon fuel tanks. I should think you could find one less 16k.

 

You didn't mention Western Star, but for what it's worth to you, I run a 2020 WS 4900ex day cab. 6nz Cat, 18 speed, 220" wheelbase. With the pneumatic blower on and full of fuel I'm at 17740....

We have a couple Freightliner Classics as well, spec'd similarly and they're I think around 16500 or so.

 

Last single drive, short, day cab I know of personally was bought in ‘03. An FL. It weighed in at 12,890 without fifth wheel. We buy without fifthwheel to avoid the extra FET on them and then add our own.
I’d figure the 16,000 range would be a start on tandem drive. My ‘67 351 weighs 16,600.

 

Aluminum frames saved close to 3000 lbs. Then there were rare Rockwell aluminum drive axle housings and gear carriers, aluminum steer axle beams that shaved off a bunch. Spicer had aluminum boxes back then. Wasn’t uncommon for an all aluminum west coast truck to weigh 10,000.

 

I’ve seen tandem axle tractors advertised in the fifteens, that said, I guess it’s a bit more of a question of what type of terrain are you going to be operating in and how much power do you really need? You can get one of those ######### medium duty trucks built as a tandem with a 9 L motor and a 10 speed, you probably be 11,000 pounds give or take with something like that. I don’t think I really want to be taking something like that out through any hills though for hauling any real weight, or going any real kind of distance.

A Man told me a long time ago, if you wanna actually haul real weight, don’t worry about what you weigh empty just build it so that it ain’t gonna break when you load it
Ymmv