Your Opinion: Double Drive Axles Only One Is Powered

Holland used to run them. Drivers would lift the tag, to put more weight on the drive axle. They’d fly by me in the snow, Lol.

 

My neighbors got a Freightliner for Parts. Probably sell everything you need to swap it to a regular setup. Probably sell the whole Truck.

 

I'm more curious who bamboozled you into buying a single screw, when you knew you would need the traction of a twin. I mean, did you even know what you were looking at? I don't mean to be rude, and a tag axle does have it's merits, where it doesn't snow, unless you chain up or cables the 1 drive tire, I think you made a foolish mistake.

 

Price probably. Nobody wants them so they go cheap. I almost bought one myself despite experiencing it at Schneider and hating every minute. It was that cheap.

Glad I didn't though.

 

You know, it's not like I haven't thought about this. What I was going to do, was take the drive axles out of one of the rears, and put a plate over the hole, and run that axle like a tag, weather turns cold, put the "real" axles back in.

 

When I was truck shopping, the truck was so nice (based on comparison with other trucks at the time, the used truck gamble notwithstanding) and the mileage was so low that I actually seriously considered it. It was priced the same as the day cab I ended up buying but it was a sleeper and I thought for a second I could just run hard in fair weather and hibernate in winter.

But then I recalled getting stuck on stupid #### like gravel and noped hard out of that one.

 

I had a tag axle day cab at Schneider too. It was a 2015 or 2016 MY. Same automatic. Had a plow truck shove me up and around a corner in Hazelton because I lost momentum on a road that wasn't even a challenge for anyone else.

I had called support and they said they'd send someone in a couple hours. 15 minutes later I called them back and said nevermind I'm good. They said how and I said what you don't know won't hurt you.

 

@Ker do you have a switch on the dash that says "WEIGHT TRANSFER"?

 

As long as you can dump the tag separate from the pther drive axle you will have no problem in the snow