KW vs Pete for an oil patch?

If Kenworth still offers the Neway air ride you might want to consider that as an option.

 

Not in the oil patch, but I do go off road pretty much everyday with my rig, It's got Air Trac, and as far as air ride suspensions go for the dirt, mud, etc I personally feel that the Air Trac is the way to go.

Just my 2¢...

 

Not sure what the 460 is, but had the air trac in a logging truck and a friend had it in a dump truck. Awesome suspension, great traction and stability. Make sure at least one axle or preferably both axles are lockers, have them on their own switch if they both lock though. The down fall of this suspension is it doesn't have much wheel articulation. If diagonal drive tires (LF and RR) drop down and the RF and LR are on a hump it will lose traction if all you have is a power divider. You could get stuck turning around on a gravel road with a large crown. At least one axle lock is needed.
The design uses torque to lift the truck to plant the tires. It's awesome in sand. It doesn't chatter, though you may get a bounce or hop after a little way, but not chatter. It's the best on-off road suspension I know of. I heard you can get it in a KW now, but don't know what they call it.

 

NRG, this is what i would go with too, Neway susp are a lot better than a pete air trac, you can have neway on petes too by the way, and personnaly a far as truck make goes, theyre both pretty good, just depends on your personal choice ...... I've had friends that ran neway52k's on petes, hauled logs in forest in eastern part of canada.....i drove one of them for a test drive, i was actually really surprised at how well the ride was even bobtailing....