I know it's nice. Have Droms gone out of style out west?
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Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Aug 23, 2016.
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This is actually from my neck of the woods (kind of) Maple Leaf Foods in Toronto, Ontario, Canada up the road a little from me about 5 hours away.
I had actually came up with a design like this as a delivery vehicle. But I forgot that Drom's were still a thing although I guess they have fallen way out of style:
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I was designing a fleet of trucks for a fictional chain restaurant and one of the things I wanted to bring back was truck and trailer and B trains for delivery to high volume chain restaurants.
I don't think or can't think of a reason why that set up would be illegal. Common? no, but illegal why it has less pivot points then a standard set of doubles. Like B trains the steel haulers use them and nobody else, but there legal.
Regular doubles are not really good for route delivery, but truck and trailer or B train is a different story. I was just thinking out side of the box I guess.Mike_77 and HalpinUout Thank this. -
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For the last 11 years my job has kept me inside the state of Oregon, so I can't report on what's currently being used in the broader western part of the country. As far as I know bakeries were some of the last to use droms. Here is what information I can offer on this subject:
Franz bread which is our largest bread producer use to have at least one drom tractor, but I haven't seen it in years. Currently Franz is using doubles, triples and 53's with non drom tractors.
The now defunct Hostess baking company had quite a few drom tractors out here.
I recall seeing Oroweat (another PNW bakery) selling their drom Peterbilt COE's on truck paper minus the drom box. I cant recall seeing one on the road in a while.
Depending on your definition of "drom" I know TSMT runs some tractors that I guess could be considered drom setups for their military work. When I was pulling flatbed around the country years ago I saw them a lot down in the South West where there is a lot of military bases etc..
I can't recall personally seeing a drom used in a for-hire trucking operation, other than the rare moving truck. Droms in general freight operations were way before my time.Last edited: Jan 20, 2018
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