Adding Lift Axle Cost

This company can’t train you. You said they have two rgn’s which technically you don’t have an rgn. 2 out of 250. They don’t know wtf they are doing either and your dispatcher has already told you this.

 

There's more to it than just bolting an axle on. My T800 is factory 4- heavy deep frame, crossmembers for lift axle, everything shoved forward to get empty weight on the front axle, cooling, drivelines, 46 rears, etc, etc.
Another way to put it- 425's on a 12,000# front axle doesn't make it good to go for 20,000#. At least unwise in my opinion.

 

Good. But I ain’t your buddy.

 

You’ve gotten a lot of good answers here from people that have actual skin in the HH game — real money invested over the course of years, ten or more for many of them — and they have all watched the rates crumble by people who don’t know what the #### they’re doing, or trying to get into, with inadequate equipment and shoddy, at best, knowledge of the complexities in this end of the industry.

I’ll ask you again — because I didn’t see an answer from you. Do you know the actual weight rating of the axles currently on your truck? I’m not talking about what you can permit. I’m talking about the manufacturers rating. If you don’t know where to find this information, you’re already behind and should probably exit stage left and continue with the 5 or 6 axle work.

 

What is the wheelbase of the tractor?
Do you even have room for a lift axle without stretching the frame?
Are you going to take a sawsall to all the plastic fairing in the way?

I say ignore all the years of experienced advice you have been given and go for it.
Check back in in 6 months and let us know how you are doing.

 

Why do you need AI to answer questions that you should already know the answers to?