Mitch wrote:
Payload capacity is everything in a semi tractor.
They're paying you to haul their freight, not your own vehicle weight. If you're carrying a ton of fuel and two tons of batteries, you're throwing away payload because total weight is limited by law.
Yup. That the reason for aluminum wheels the wide base tires instead of duals. Aluminum can save about 30 lb., which is over 500 lbs saving for a tractor-trailer combination. 1/4 ton - but enough that most road trucks bother. A single wide base tire and wheel assembly weighs about 300 lbs less than a typical dual wheel assembly resulting in about 2400 lb savings for the whole combination. Some drives say the wide base ride better than duals. The down-side to the wide base tires is the lack of redundancy, considerable expense in retrofitting. With any of these weight savings, it's the bulk hauling that makes the best use because it's easy to add just a few more pounds. With packaged freight, it's hard to add one more package to each pallet after the loads been made up. Even with the truck at less than weight capacity, fuel use goes down as the weight goes down so even packaged freight can see some savings from less weight even if revenue doesn't go up. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
