Looking for advice on specs for a day cab

It's a scrap trailer 89 cu yd. I haul most every kind of metal to the mills. But, you want a big trailer for Aluminum and Stainless.

 

Yeah i noticed it when i saw the pic of your truck.

When i posted that my mind was just stuck on dirt, and i was wtf? Lol

 

Think its the make or brand of trailer. They do seem to set high on the frame. I have saw these on the road and wondered same thing. How high are the sides..inches?

 

Unless the OP is going off road quite a bit, (more than 50% of the time) there's no real reason for the heavy specs. He's not heavy at a 25 ton load with a daycab. And I doubt he'd be heavy with the dry van load.

OP, if you're not running in the mountains, 450-500 horsepower will be plenty. We have a guy here where I work doing really short runs, 55 miles loaded at 80k, and coming back empty, three a day, sometimes a fourth. He's running an old Schneider day cab. It is turned up to 500 hp. But it's nothing special otherwise. 10 speed, with 2.79 rears. His fuel mileage is terrible, but he spends three hours a day running a blower to unload cement, and he's in the hills all the time.

But, for $25 grand, that truck paid for itself a few times already.

 

Everyone’s application will be different and your budget will really determine that. For our trucks, they’re always hooked up to double side dumps or 9 axle super sides. Grossing @ 129k. So weight of the tractor really doesn’t matter when pulling 40+ tons each trip. If they have to hook up to our end dumps, again they’re 4 axle Ranco dumps that gross 105,500. When we have to pull the doubles/triples for UPS it’s by the hour. We hardly will take jobs/haul outs that are tonnage. Hourly rates gate to gate. It’s a business, not UNICEF....

 

Side height is 101 inches. From the belly to the top rail.

 

Not a dumb question at all. Some trailers have a single line like end dumps. The hydraulic fluid will feed and return in the same line. On other trailers like roll off, walking floor, equipment trailers and so on. Will use a dual wet line. Meaning 1 line feeds and 1 line returns the fluid.

 

That wouldn't be a very practical truck for what he wants to do. The "minimum 220" wheelbase" would have such a huge gap between the cab and trailer, it'll fight him going down the road (especially with a van) and suck down fuel. Double frame is extra weight to unnecessarily carry around pulling legal loads. Dumps are typically paid by the ton, so the less you weigh, the more you can haul. 24.5's are also out of the question if he's going to pull vans, too. With 11R24.5 tires, I'm 13'8" to 13'9" hooked to a van. A 20k front axle is also overkill, adding extra weight you simply don't need. 12-14k axle will handle the job and weigh less. 2006 and older trucks won't have DPF's, let alone SCR...so no need for a DEF tank. And personally, after having a battery explode when I hit the key, there is no way in hell I'd mount them anywhere inside the cab. They belong in a box on or between the frame rails, NOT inside the cab.

In other words, I'm not sure a person could be given worse advise than what was contained in your post.