THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

My last one was a '99 FLD 120 Single axle with a 350HP M11 and super 10. I feel your pain brother!
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Can you tell if the 680 has the cruise control on the dash? What about in cab 5th wheel release?

 

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Cruise will be either on the dash or a steering column stalk I forgot where it was located on on the day cab I looked at. In cab fifth wheel jaw release no, air slide yes. It's a Jost with a handle on the left side and I bet if I manage to live another half century I'd be willing to bet I'd never see them on a Schneider truck. That's just asking for ripped off airlines and pigtails, crushed landing gear, damaged loads and a few totaled trailers a year. Only trucks I've ever seen air released jaws on were all stinger car carriers and I've seen a few dump suspension air and then rip their air lines off at the auto auctions because they got distracted and forgot to disconnect them.

 

Plenty of the intermodal day cabs have the in cab jaw release, as well as inflatable air bags (they can raise the height to pull a tralier out of a hole) and dump valves.

 

Probably get rid of heat a lot faster. That big drum is what is holding the heat in the brakes and it takes a long time to get the heat out of that big chunk of iron.

Hell, I'm more worried about seeing some rice racer from your generation drill his own rotors right after they tie a 55 gallon drum to the fart pipe and then put a "type R" sticker on doors.

 

I agree about the heat dissipation being much better with discs, but I am also curious about pairing a tractor with discs with a drum-equipped trailer & vice-versa. Seems a greater chance for jack-knife with drums on the trailer...

And I'm still giggling at the thought of a 55-gallon fart can!

 

Hey, ya gotta get the proportions right on the fart can or it won't have the right look. I'm still giggling myself and I'm the one that wrote that stupid sheet LOL. Love you signature.


Anti lock brakes would need to be doing their job. I did skid control training many moons ago and it was an eye opener, heck of a lot of fun in a controlled environment too. The axle that locks up is the one that wants to lead.

• Lock up the steers and you go straight no matter how hard you turn the wheel
• Lock up the drives and you jacknife while the trailer pushes you
• Lock up the trailer and it gets fun. Trailer does a 180 and whips the tractor around like a whip and it's a wild ride.
• When you lock up tires on dry pavement you are creating rubber ball bearings under the tires which is why you still can get the same results on dry pavement as well as wet or icy roads

You can use a toy tractor trailer, smooth surface and some tape to see how it works. put tape on the axles you want to lock up and give the toy a straight push across the floor or table and watch what happens. Matchbox size tractor trailers and a piece of scotch tape work very well for this experiment.