Empty trailers take longer to STOP

Ice is a whole different thing. Bobtail on ice is me driving slower than my grandpa with his traction control or not at all. You know how there are those bumps in the road where the pavement before a light has been all mounded up from the friction of thousands of vehicles stopping and the moment you hit them bobtail, you have no brakes because you're just skittering across the tops of them? Rough broken pavement will do it too. That's where the jake works. I'm not sure of the exact why, it just does.

I should have specified, jakes on on dry pavement.

 

ive read things in that CDL manual that really make me wonder who wrote it......

 

Well I be kiss my sweet redneck asds after all these years and now I have to learn to read a book to drive a ##### truck. I ain't never believed half the crap in them books, nor half the ######### at the coffee counter in any truckstop, and now I am beating my head against the wall wondering if the fella's who believe what these books say. Also believe everything they read, just saying folks there are many Hands on here who have many years driving down these old roads, they have more to offer then any #### old book. Some of them are older than the snot nosed panty sniffer who wrote some of them.

So let me put it this way there is a book that shows you how to blow up a bridge with explosive's it may be right, and it could be wrong and you could be dead.

And there is a fella who has real life experience working in the EOD for the US Army and he offers to teach you.
Which one do you go with.

Pick the wrong one and you ain't telling no one bout it. Ya'll think about that there now.

Have a nice one and Ya'll be safe out there empty or loaded

 

I always keep a good stopping distance, loaded not loaded doesn't really matter to me, I kinda don't understand why we are arguing here cuz if I have to find it out it is too late and I will be out of a job already... But I just hate empties, especially for my stupid A train with a dolly hauling an empty trailer as my rear trainer... That rear trainer just bounce/slide/wiggle all over the ##### place... Too bad for my daily routine I have to do this for a period of time everyday...

 

This is not a real world test, it's per ABS and everyone should know an empty will lock up sooner than a loaded truck. A trailer that was built in 1984 does not have ABS. I've driven both and in tankers too. Without ABS an empty would lock up and take forver to stop. A loaded truck back then stop much shorter. Now with a good working ABS on all 8 axles an empty can stop on a dime with no lock up. But our trailers are matched to our trucks and the system works like it should. I would hate to drop and hook all the time and have trailers with the old system.

In fact our trucks stop so well now we had to address cars running into the back of us during emergency stops. And we grossed over 100,000lbs on every load.

 

I hear ya about the trailer matched to truck issue...makes a big difference.

 

In this photo I gross out at 188,500 lbs. Can you tell me how far or how long it will take me to come to a dead stop from 60 MPH ???

If I'm bobtaling at the same speed, will it take me longer to come to a stop???






Now let's use another example. If you are using a hammer to drive in a 6 inch in nail with a hammer that has a 14 ounce head on it, and another hammer that has a 10 pound head on it. As you swing these hammers you decide 16 inches away to stop the motion of the hammer. Which one will stop first??? Try it and tell me which of the two smashed your hand the hardest.

 

When approaching a corner with 2 lanes going in the same directios, I always used up both lanes at the same time, that way another vehicle should not try to squeeze by as both lanes are occupied.

Two lane road only, wait until there is no oncoming traffic and swing wide or yell to the pedestrain on the sidewalk to get out of the way.

 

Not arguing, Discussing it. If we start an argument, You`ll know it.

 

Now this is trucking!! No hammer, Nail gun.