Any use for a single axle truck??

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What did you end up doing?

 

You can use It on dry roads for pulling pup trailers. Pretty useless in the winter

 

Enlighten us pls as to why you think that.?

 

Just grasping at straws here, but it seems to me this would be a perfect truck for an excavating company to haul smaller equipment with. Say maybe a backhoe or a small dozer with a 2 axle lowboy.

 

Much better traction with 8 tires as opposed to four tires. In the Northeast we get snow and ice occasionally which renders a single axle truck pretty useless in the winter time

 

And you know this because you driven how many miles with a single axle?

 

200,000 miles with a single axle pulling doubles. It's not nearly as safe as a twin screw on a solid sheet of ice or in the rain. Sure it can be done and many companies use single-screw trucks in the winter time out here and they are the first ones to go sliding off the road when it rains or snows.

 

To a degree, true, but a S/A has it's place,

I would say it all depends on the setup and use, if you are talking about hard surface traction and nothing else, I will take my S/A EVERY time, why? Because if you are on a hard surface and are not worried about floatation, on a typical twin screw loaded to the max at 34,000 you have just over 4000 per tire, I am at 5000 per tire.

Also MOST cheap fleet trucks with twin screw do run an interlocker, BUT still only one tire set (corner) will spin on each axle, where if you run a true locker on a S/A, which most do, you have just as many tires actually turning with only HALF the drag.

Now if you are talking floatation, or surface TENSION, yes, the twin screw wins all the time, surface tension and drag are why you feel safer in your twin screw pulling doubles than you do in a S/A.

I would bet those double that you say are off the road first was not a straight down traction situation, but rather a surface adhesion issue with your wiggle wagons trying to "steer" the tractor.

Just my two cents, and we average over a million a year on our S/A fleet.

 

I have been thinking
Is there any companies around tristate that operate single axle