Cabovers

tell me how heavy tractor is empty with some amount of fuel

you have 2x w600 tanks?

and tell me how much it is weight empty on front and on rear

wheelbase and 5th wheel position i will calculate

 

There are new trolley buses in Ukraine with independent suspention. Axe load is the same like on class 8 trucks, ore may be more. They are all with ECAS (two sensors and two solenoids per axel). And I'd say, trolley buses run so smooth with any load.

The bad thing suspention is complicated like on cars and require to many ajustments

 

here 99% of all buses have them

including low floor ones for city (man lionscity mb citaro irisbus citelis...)

and they are pretty sensitive for bad roads comparing to rigid axle

one bus manufacturer 2km from my home almost take rigid axle on their buses

(build on scania chassis)

i was talking with scania dealer about difference in price between rigid and independent

and they say it is only small difference nothing significant

 

Mercedes say they want use r'n'p with independent truck suspention. They gonna do it with next generation of trucktors

 

what is R n p?

well i believe this is all zf product

at least i think all buses have ZF axles maybe it is not cost efficient to make bus axles so they buy zf and sale as OEM

http://www.zf.com/media/media/en/do...al_vehicle_flyer/LKW_Fahrwerk_der_Zukunft.pdf

 

Merc and volvo have us spec trucks for a reason!!!!!!!! If not we would ALL be driving eu speced trucks ! As I said eariler I had tested and killed every make till I found what would take 1000 miles a day 365 day a year for 10 to 12 years . Loved gov decated work, used to be money in it ,truck pulled out every 8 hours loaded or empty! Driver a drive 500 miles to bunk house driver b get in and drive 500 back to home base . Driver a get truck from driver c , etc. Learned a lot. Our best one we shot at 4.3 million miles .life time fuel milage over 10 mpg.

 

http://www.tungt.no/transportmagasinet/article730061.ece
dont look like ZF to me ,this one has an stabiliser anti roll bar ,RL80ET dont , but cant see much ,its a spy photo.
IFS is definitely for good road, cause they will keep the rigid beam variant too.
there is also rumors about a double clutch transmission like VW DSG

 

This may be true of the purchase price.
I suspect that once the truck has a few years and 800 000km under its belt maintenance cost difference my be significant.
A suspicion because I have nothing except instinct to base that statement on.

 

not so sure in this it is hard to build one for high torque engines

only mitsubishi have it currently but for small ones

also it does not make any sense to build anything else than ishift since it is almost perfect

they only need ishift with crawler gears 14.94:1 is too small overall ratio and in heavy operating condition it burns clutch

 

Rack and pinion steering, like on car. mercedes introdused r'n'p in MP4 and Cascadia