What dump truck to buy ?

Everyone runs air ride on dumps up here......

Maybe if it’s never gonna leave the quarry I’d go springs .

 

Here in AL we don't normally run air suspensions on triaxles except triaxle trailers. We have a lot of triaxles with steerable axles as well.

 

If I were you, and going to be driving the truck every day air ride is the way to go. I have the Camelback on my tractor pulling dump trailer and it's a ruff ride. Definitely look for something double framed. I'm not sure how the terrain is by you but would suggest at least 475hp, 13spd, preferably 18spd and something like 3.91 gears. Maybe go to 4.11 or 4.33 not sure what the terrain is around you. As far as box length goes look around at the trucks you see running every day, judge it off that.

 

I own triaxle pete with air trac. I’m mostly off road. Bags are fine as long as you don’t hire people to drive your truck. They drive like idiots . Keep the truck in first gear off road and you won’t blow an airbag. When you go to dump your load, always dump your bags

 

I have an 18 speed but if you plan on doing any work like me and are in crappy conditions like crappy dumps where you need to lock in the tandems and need to crawl out of soft material up to your differentials with 23 and a half tons in your box an 8LL is far superior. Most dumptrucks get ordered with that trans becuase it has deep reduction. I only have an 18 speed becuase I bought this truck used obviously. It was meant for mostly blacktop work

 

To spec a proper dump truck, it really helps to know exactly what your main application is going to be, and what you will be doing here and there, and what you will never be doing, along with what states you will be running in.