Tricked

Our company bought a bunch of carpcadias with only power dividers, auto transmissions, and stupid singles.
Why don't you guess how well those things handle snow and ice in the pnw.

 

Considering how well they do in the midwest where the average truckstop pothole is larger then the average hill I can only dread.

 

This is a ridiculous statement. That cascadia has basically the same rear ends as any other highway truck. And basically the same weight distribution as any set back axle truck.

 

All I know is the cascadias I've driven will spin out at the drop of a hat. The first winter I drove a cascadia I drove the same way I did in the century class trucks and nearly wiped out. In the century I rarely had to shovel myself out. Tge cascaida needs darn near dry pavement to get underneath a trailer.

I was at the Menomonee WI walmart dc and could not bobtail thru their mt trailer area even with the diff locked. Too pot holed, too much slushy ice. Intermodal guy in a century grabbed a trailer for me and dropped it on pavement, then goy gus own container - this is after he pulled me out.

I've watched old iron trucks plow trough drifted snow. I watched guys with cascacias leave their bumper behind after kissing a snow bank.


It was a joke, but with a kernal of truth at its core.

 

The only difference between a Century and a Cascadia are the plastic parts of the body. Engine, transmission, frame rears did not change. He'll the first Cascadias sleepers were still the old century stamped ones until they came up with the evolution.

 

The power band is radically different. The suspension is different.

 

Power band has nothing to do what cab the engine is under.

 

Get girl power...lol..sorry I couldn't resist sayin it driver

 

Only if you changed the truck specs.

The plastic aero bits have zero to do with engine settings or rear ends. It is why I chuckle when those long hood belt buckle crowd start talking about how they are faster, strongef, etc. Baddest truck I have ever seen was a 12.7 Detroit in a FLD that would drag most of those chrome boy toys sideways up Monteagle running triple digits. It's secret was the owner had sunk his money into putting power on the ground, not shiny crap on the roof.