Tractor wheelbase for chip/log trailer hauling

I used to haul logs and chips in Franklin County VA. and we used to have sleeper trucks and daycabs. Some where a little longer than normal but a freightliner daycab would be a good truck to get even if you wanted to get one with a small sleeper on it for the long wait. You can haul 84k if it was pulled out of the woods and if you have the 5% sticker but I think that is on secondary roads and not the interstates.

 

Yeah my dad still lives there. He was a mechanical engineer and worked there for about 35 years before retiring. Step mother worked there almost as long as a chemical engineer. I didn't know that about the mill in Courtland but I've been in there a few times picking up roll stock in the past year or so. He has some long time friends who re-located to Courtland after everything in Franklin shut down. It was never anything steady for me out of there but I still hate to hear of it because of the negative impact it'll have on the local community. Yeah I remember those ol Macks very well. Most of them dirty and beat up belching black smoke, loud as hell, looked like fun driving one. Knowing what I know now... ...can't imagine how worn out I'd be after a camelback suspension beating all day long, no a/c, no power steering lol... Yeah I'm sure you only "thought about it" for a minute and then thought, NAH!!.. haha!

 

I see a few of those around here but not many, most are used by road construction outfits that chip branches and small trees on the side of the road.

This is a typical Western 53' 4 axel chip wagon out here.

 

Here's three of our trucks and one from another outfit at Weyerhaeuser in Longview,WA.
We back them on the tipper and dump them ourselves.

 

Weyco (Weyerhaeuser) is huge, they have a lumber mill, paper mill and log export sort yard all in one place on the Columbia River several miles long.
Here's a couple pics, the first I drew a red line around the mill then I zoomed up a couple times till you could see just the chip dump.
Might have to click the bar on top of the pic to get it big enough.