Does overly biased tandem weight add drag?

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  1. Ffx95

    Ffx95 Road Train Member

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    And insanely bright hid lights
     
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    Wait until LED gets big enough for trucking. If it isnt there already. (Ive noticed a few already...)

    I bought one for the house once, #### thing hurt in broad day light just to look at it and actually able to make the area brighter in the face of a full Arkansas sun. That's outrageous to me... It's almost a slap in the face of God to be making such infernal things...
     
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    Led head lights have been around quite a few years. There is even a direct replacement for the old 4x6 sealed beam headlights found in pete 379s kw w900s and freightliner classics
     
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    i always load heavy to the rear, my setup allows a higher sum of axle weights than my max gross. and i pretty much always roll at max gross. i max out my trailer tridem and carry the remainder over the drive axle group. this is fine. if i was only carrying a 5k lb load i would want the weight more centered. or drive bias in the winter.
     
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    Easier to carry weight than pull simple physics
     
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    I think the idea is it's easier to pull weight than push weight. But, noted. But honestly, I don't think the engine really cares where the weight is. If that were true, trains would look much different.
     
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    I can pull a pickup and move it around. Picking it up and moving it is a bit more difficult.
     
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    can you take sleeping medicine like trazodone.
     
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    It's a semi opioid. You can have it with a doctors note, but I do not recommend using it on the trucking. 10 hours is plenty for you to get some sleep and if you use this medicine you might be drowsy and emotionally altered not to care about safety etc. I would not touch the stuff. It does weird things to some people.

    A bit of google shows this medicine and many others on or off a list vs DOT testing. And these forums are full of threads about this medicine and others. Asking a question specifically is going to get you a range of answers, many of which take with a grain of salt. I suggest you use the search function first.
     
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    thank you. Because I take Effexor for depression and that make me wide awake