I've seen many a doubles on American highways. A tractor followed by a semitrailer followed by a semitrailer converted to a full trailer using a dolly. I've never seen a trailer setup like this, though. I wonder what it's called? This type of truck is featured in a RR sim I play. It looks like a dry-van semitrailer with a 5th-wheel deck of some kind behind the rear doors. I don't know how they even load it with the rear coupling area in the way like this. It looks like this odd doubles truck might be a foreign type since this game is produced in Australia.
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Look ma, no converter dolly!
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by TomCougar, Oct 15, 2019.
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Odd is right.
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i think it only exists in your video game...
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Its a variant of a B-train. Very common here in Canada.
B-train: Tandem truck, tandem lead, tandem pup.
Super B: Tandem truck, tridem lead, tandem pup.
Another variation is tridrive truck, tandem lead, tandem pup. I also have seen them in a tridrive truck, tridem lead and a tandem or tridem pup.
B-trains aren't twin 53' though. I don't know the exact dimensions off hand but I'd estimate that the lead's about a 40' and the pup is about 32'.Canadianhauler21, Texas_hwy_287, okiedokie and 8 others Thank this. -
When the lead is tandem, both axles are behind the cargo portion of the trailer. When the lead is a tridem, the third axle is positioned under the cargo portion of the trailer. They are most common as flatbed or chip trailers but B-train/Super B vans are out there.
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Well we thought u had gave up the trucking idea , but i guess we can assume u have been going down that rabbit hole much further and somehow made it to austraila? Man that was a deep rabbit hole
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I see them a lot hauling steel, but virtually never have I seen a b train van set up.
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Those in the top picture are flatbeds, not dryvans.
Texas_hwy_287, Intothesunset and D.Tibbitt Thank this. -
I have never seen a b-train set up like that game one, with all the axles behind the trailer like that.
Just looking at it, I tend to think it is just something the game came up with, but who knows.
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