Anyone ever buy a roll-off truck from Apex Equipment?

Are you asking about the dealer or a particular truck or part of a truck?

 

Well for my money the mack is beat, i think their asking to much, half a million miles on a roll off is a million on a otr truck. The donovan tarp has no adjustable arms, less to break, but a hassle with poorly loaded or smaller boxs, the Volvo looks good, im not a huge engine guy, i would suggest taking the specs over to the engine thread and asking the gurus in there about engine longevity

 

Now thats interesting, technically a dead lift is a roll off, with no stinger, the cable clevis is the same, but it requires a particular box type. Standard roll off, (extendable or fixed stinger) you raise your rack to the correct pitch, back close to the box, attach the clevis, and the 2 main cable pistons draw the cable through the pullys, once the box is on the stinger, you can lower the rack to a pitch that is parallel to the pitch of the box, this allows you to use the rails on the truck to keep the box straight. On a dead lift you back close to the box, the cable runs over a center mounted pully, (looks like a train wheel) you hook the clevis to the box, and pull it into the back of the truck, there are 2 vertical supports on the box that ride on 2 smaller wheels on the back of the truck, and the pistons literally dead lift the box off the ground, once on the back of the truck, you raise the rack to keep the box from rolling forward and draw it up the same way. Round here the only dead lifts ive ever seen are semi roll offs. There are semi versions of standard hard tail roll offs, (ive done those) ive seen pics of straight truck dead lifts but i dont see value in them unless you are doing something specialized. (Jmo)

 

Minor correction, the box has 2 wheels, one on either side of the clevis, they ride up runners on the back of the truck. Ypu can pick up boxs with damaged or missing wheels in a regular roll off, not a dead lift