I need some help rolled a truck do to mechanical failure

Almost all trucks with spring ride on the front have spring shackles.

 

I wonder if it was an air ride truck and he broke a torsion arm or hanger? His English isn't spectacular so maybe he is calling it a shackle when we know it by another name?

 

I can't ever remember seeing a "shackle" on a drive axle of any twin screw truck..spring or air ride. Steering axle yes.....but twin screw?

 

Hendrickson E4 had shackles.



items 10-11 are shackles..
I'm probably showing My age by posting this..LOL

 

thanks haycarter, I've never seen it but then I'm a young man.. I wasnt thinking of equalizer hangers but in term of a shackle on the opposite end of the spring like on a steering axle. Blonde moment. What is the rating on that E4?

 

I'd hazard a Guess & say every Truck you've ever driven has had shackles on the Steer axle...

You can get an air ride Front end, & Kenworth make a heavy duty "slipper" front end here In Australia But doubt if any saw service in the U.S.A.

 

I caught the part about shackles too but I let it lay....... I assume he meant U-bolts. Who knows?

 

I'm pretty sure that the E380 is 38,000lbs & the E400 is 40,000lbs..
But it was nearly 30 yrs ago & I'm not as good as I used to Be...LOL

 

This is a difficult english problem.

I'll have to consider how a driver can fail to hold a truck to a stop in a accident situation and still end up laying it over or worse, rolling onto the roof.

Usually if you lay a rig down or roll it it's going to be preventable against you unless it is something like a absolute act of god with a 8.0 quake or something.

 

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