Fleet truck questions

Not worth it. It would be like making a street tuner out of a 1988 Yugo with a Vanilla Ice bumper sticker. "IceIce, Baby"

 

Fleet trucks dont want these as what some drivers would do is apply only the trailers brakes and save their trucks brakes. Since you are driving one of their rigs they dont have to worry about this, and one less thing they need to repair.

As to dash guages, again its a repair and cost issue. When buying a fleet of trucks they look at price of the bottom end. Buy 100 trucks with out guages and save $10,000. Or buy trucks with extras and try to explain to the stockholders why they will see less income.

 

Excellant question.

I added 1 gauge and that was rather easy.

Never saw a tractor trailer without a trailer brake valve !!!

 

Just as the members have said: No trailer hand valve so the super truckers cant abuse the trailer brakes/tires. And no gauges to save money on the initial truck investment.I doubt half of the clowns driving these company trucks look at the gauges, anyway?
I prefer having a dash full of gauges. They are there for a reason. If a rearend, trans etc start running warm, a good indication that problems are coming...

 

As for the gages, it depends on the truck. Sometimes the wiring is already there and it is just a matter of buying a new dash panel and the gages. Other times it isn't so simple. It may be very expensive to install, for example, a tranny temp gauge if there is no sensor in tranny, no wiring to the cab, no wiring in cab. You are looking at a good 4 hours + just for that one gauge. The spike handle may require a different $400 steering column or different dash panels, again, a lot of work to install. I would say you are looking at these trucks because they are cheap, but not what you want. I would keep looking for a truck spec'd the way you like. There are lots of great used trucks out there.

 

Just as Hd said. You will be much happier in a truck you like.

 

A few years back, I was looking around at some trucks at FL Select Trucks in Council Bluffs, IA that were Crete Carrier fleet trade ins. Every one of them did not have a trolley valve. Personally, I can't see any truck I would have not having one. I only really use the thing to slide tandems and check brake light functioning out of the cab. Thing sure comes in handy for getting a slight roll going and breaking free a stubborn tandem slider. But Crete must prefer to replace drive train components.

 

SWIFT used to have no trailer valve in thier Volvo's. To me its a safety issue. In order to test the brakes on the trailer independaly of the tractor. No valve, No Test. Seems dangerous to me.