Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

Correct... no happy ending.

 

Well U are getting " fixed up"

 

Here's my big load for the day. Ask Ron and Carl I've been whining all day about being latched onto the twelve axle. I'm 12Wx15'9"Tx122L and 214k gross he reel is 132k. I'm right at the max with this trailer as its a 65t XL it sure does have a lot of flex in it.

 

214k eh, that's a bit of weight. Nice.

 

Yea it's the heaviest I've been in a long long time. One you get it rolling tho it pulls just like anything else

 

Unless going up a mountain pass with a head wind... lol

 

Well yea. I know I had to pull a couple six percent grades yesterday and only one had me down into the basement. Going down those same grades is slower than hell too.

 

Haul hand, How did the big turbo work on that load. The big moters like'em big wide and heavy like a good woman.

 

It worked great, has plenty of power I just can't downshift it like my cummins. I rolled out of the power real gentle and never stalled the turbo at all. I had to turn a corner at the bottom of a 2 mile 6% and topped it at 22 mph which I thought was pretty good considering I started from a dead stop. It's just something I have to get used to and yea she loves them wide long and heavy.

 

Parked for night at a small fuel place called Nambe Falls Travel Center on US-285 just north of Sante Fe, NM. No actual parking here but they agreed to let me park in a corner since I spent $350 on fuel when got here. Left Cheyenne yesterday and made it to Hobbs, NM to customer last night, loaded this morning and heading back to Fort Collins