Help! Best Truck/engine for $30000??????

Thanks man

 

Question; how are front and rear axle weights determined. Example 12,000 steers, 40,000 rear tandems. I see rated at 10,000 steers and 38,000 rear tandems.

 

that's the rated "load capacity".

You aren't going to want 34,000 lb axles for running off-road belly or side-dump on a construction site.

 

How is that rating determined? What is the criteria used to determine what the rating is?

 

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I'd like to know the answer to that question as well. What's the difference also in 38,000lb rear axle and 40,000lb?
I'm looking at buying a truck this week and many of the trucks I've looked at have differing weights on the rear axle. I'm wanting to do flatbed work if that makes a difference.

 

30 K?

As much horse you can get away with. It will allow you less hourly fuel burn fighting the Winds out west and long mountain grades. 500 horse and up. 13 speed minimum.

Regarding truck cabs and sleepers. Get as much volume you can. Our Century for two people was about as good as it got in our time. Short enough to get into some places but big enough to live in waiting two days for freaking Americold to finish blast of produce without killing one another. But in serious winter cold if you do not have side skirts between drives and steers, you gonna get a touch cold.

Avoid the emissions as much as you can. California is a God onto themselves. Shooting themselves trying to smoke a 8 inch pipe full of it buried in their laws. They can stuff it. Unfortunately they need everything from the rest of the USA while supplying basically all the things to eat.

 

2000 pounds.

On a serious note, that is the rating for the suspension. 99% of trucking either of those suspensions are fine.

 

Suspension Ratings usually have a cushion of percentage. If like Oscar stated, loading a 38K with 40K freight is not going to hurt it none. Just don't make a habit of it. Ive had 135,000 on a 40 foot box with a 60's offset Mack tractor with it's engineering essentially overloaded beyond reason. One of the symptoms was the wheels themselves with tires swaying side to side as the bearings floated on the flexing axles. That caused me to rethink leaving the dock. I was very stupid that day.

If you ever have problems with your drives, you want to look inside from the top of the dual tires at the inside of your drum and see if you see bearing parts falling out. That will be your only warning before your next turn pulls the whole axle and dual wheel assembly out of your gearbox and axle housing into the opposing traffic as happened to me once.

 

A Volvo with a Detroit sounds like a sweet set up .