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What did you do to your car/truck today?
- Thread starter Emily
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Went for a tire change on one U-Hauls largest rental trucks, upon getting there, we found arched over springs, overload stops flattened, and rims with good tires only a couple inches off the ground.
20 ton bottle jacks wouldn't lift it, used a heavy wrecker to do that, put tires on it, drove it to the nearest scale, trucks GVW is 20,000. It weight in at 36,780, driving it (for liability reasons) was fairly interesting, lots of corner lean, braking a mile away and transmission locks outs.
GVW exceeded by 8.5 tons, and we wonder why they develop issues early on.....
20 ton bottle jacks wouldn't lift it, used a heavy wrecker to do that, put tires on it, drove it to the nearest scale, trucks GVW is 20,000. It weight in at 36,780, driving it (for liability reasons) was fairly interesting, lots of corner lean, braking a mile away and transmission locks outs.
GVW exceeded by 8.5 tons, and we wonder why they develop issues early on.....
While walking thru our mfg yard the other day a suppliers (stake truck) rolls in which was leaning way over to one side... they had loaded 2 of our parts (cast/machined...which weigh a lot, several/many tons... 1-1/2' thick by 6'x8 ft in size). I could only imagine the "lean" the truck had when making a left turn...
Yeah well fuel is 3.53 a gallon and I usually just fill up between1/4 and half tank.
