Lift Axles: Are They Worth the Money?

Thats cheap.

I had to rescue one of the carriers trucks that had the tri axle. Front left inside tire shreaded on the trailer. I was 2 mi before weigh station. Had no choice but to call for a service truck. I asked for the cheapest virgin tire they carried. They came out with a Continental.. not sure on the size. Just know it was 17.5. The tire itself they charged me $488. I thought that was a bit high.. but not having any previous experience and them be the only ones open on a Sunday.. I went ahead and paid it. Came out to almost $700 for everything. Plus I tipped the kid $20. He was just doing his job.

Hurst

 

I did the rear due to it being a 53. What's interesting is when you put down the rear, the tandem takes less weight than the single. Yesterday I had 19,200 lbs on the single, put down the rear axle and voila it was 18,000 lbs. Why? I don't know, the bridge didn't change.

The new trailer is very nice. Could've specced a few things differently, but I'm not worried about it. It has already paid off quite handsomely. Made 3 months worth of payments in one LTL pick that nobody else at my company could do. I had about 50,400 lbs on the trailer. The overall setup is right around 30k.

 

I have a 48 reitnouer step with rear lift, it does the same thing. nice for getting around tight yards but backing takes a bit to get used too. I want to have a look at the independent slider

 

I think one reason is you are carrying now the weight of the lifted axle too