Tractor First, Right?

What's the old saying.....
"Two can starve just as cheap as one can"?

 

It's sad to say, but two guys living free in the cab of a truck earning Canadian dollars might well be a improvement vs what they came from. And the money they send home might be a princely some after applying the currency exchange. Plus after a while, you have a chance at citizenship then you can move your family over.

 

Well I can only tell you a little bit since I wasn't involved in the ordering process....

2014 kenworth
525 cummins isx 1850tq
18spd eaton
4:30 gears in the rear
24.5 rubber
46k rearends
Full lockups
New way suspension
14k front end with skinny tires so it's still only good for 12K.
No idea on frame thickness or anything like that.

So far it's been a very good truck and I've never had any serious issues. Mostly runs the highway but isn't afraid of the bush.

 

I'll add my specs for you to give an idea of another East/West Coast legal truck. It's a heavy tandem instead of having a pusher. Keeps my tare weight down for doing legal weight loads. Though it's probably newer than what you are looking for. It is the only truck in our fleet that is 100% California legal for emissions.

2016 KW T880
600/1850 Cummins ISX15
Allison 4700RDS 7Sp Auto
20K Steer W/ 425/65R22.5 Bridgestone M860A
46K Drives W/ 11R24.5 Bridgestone M726EL
KW AG460 8 bag suspension
4.10 Rears with full lockers
262" wheel base
60" drive spacing
10 3/4" x 3/8" Single Frame
Holland FWH 2570 Fifth Wheel

This truck was built with running up to 220K out to the west coast in mind.

We don't going that way very often but my company has run into issues in the past with running our 4 axle tractor out there because of his axle spacings. I think that we can only get somewhere around 51K on the drives of that truck with the pusher down. I don't have the chart in front of me to be sure though. That truck also only has a 14K steer axle. Axle spacing on that truck is 4'6" for all three. He also can't go out there because the switch for his pusher is in the cab not outside.

With my truck setup the way it is with the wider drive spacing I can run close to the same if not more weight. I don't know for sure since I've only looked at the CA load charts a couple times when I was planning to go out there a few weeks ago.

 

Lift axle in front of the drives.

Tag axle would be behind the drives.

In California the controls for lifting and lowering the axle as well as the pressure regulator can't be accessible by the driver from inside. Our 4 axle has the switch on the dash from the factory so it isn't legal there.

 

When you say load chart is that the same thing as the bridge laws found in the atlas?
Or is there a different one located in the OSOW book?

 

These are the load charts I was talking about:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/trafficops/permits/docs/19900223-Appendix20.pdf

Tells you what weight you are allowed depending on axle spacing.

As I said I'm by no means an expert on those charts though.

@peterbilt_2005 and @Rontonio would know more about those.