A local tow company posted a picture of a tow truck he is having built in Chattanooga. It's a 75 ton, twin steer, Peterbilt. That's going to be a nice wrecker but according to the owner, it will take approximately 1 year to build it.
It's certainly going to be something different in SouthEast Alabama.
Has anyone ever driven a truck with twin steer axles?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by FlaSwampRat, Jul 14, 2019.
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The Jerr-Dan units typically do, although this truck was built for Illinois which doesn't recogonize the 5th axle on straight trucks. Dropping it saves 2,500 pounds on tare weight plus the cost of maintaining tires and brakes on an axle the state will not give you any credit for.
This is our typical rotator configuration, 5 axles. Comes in right about 15k on each axle, nice and balanced. Note, the sleeper is not typical of our rotators, this was a custom truck -but the axle spacing and weight is typical of the Jerr-Dan units.
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I just pictured driving it would be similar to driving this. It was kinda scary because the guy driving it seemed like he really didn't know what he was doing. When he was setting the truck down he asked if I had wheel chocks because it felt like it was going to roll so I went and got a few. As he was setting it down I jumped in and set the brake lol...ya think he might of looked at that? Then he was walking around unhooking it and tripped over the wheel lift and banged his shin up pretty good. I'm hoping he was just having a bad day but with the tow drivers around here it seems pretty normal. They don't pay those guys enough.
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