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Hey guys, just thought I would share a quick story. I've been putting in a very large french drain around my house, and filled most of the trench with gravel (57 size). In total I put in about 45 tons of gravel - and of that at least 12 tons I hauled in my m1028 from the Quarry.
When I got the first load, I drove up to the pile and the guy slowly dumped gravel from his bucket, and kept dumping and dumping, and watching the truck and dumping, until the bucket was empty, then just stared with a big grin on his face and said, "where did you get that truck"?? I just put almost 2 tons in and it isn't sagging at all !!!!. On the scale, that load weighed 1.83 tons.
Next 3 trips weighed in at 1.8, 1.81, and then 2.01 tons respectively.
I drove each load 15 miles to my house and the truck seemed to not mind it one bit - and the braking didn't seem any different than with no load - although I was definitely very careful to start breaking early and all that, but really, it always slowed right down - and never got the scary feeling of being 'pushed' by the load.
anyways, I love my cucv,and its more that proved its usefulness.
oh yeah, so for the future, if I ever get gravel again, I'd probably tell them to keep it under 2 tons if possible - just to be safe
so, what's the most you've ever hauled in a 1008/1028????
When I got the first load, I drove up to the pile and the guy slowly dumped gravel from his bucket, and kept dumping and dumping, and watching the truck and dumping, until the bucket was empty, then just stared with a big grin on his face and said, "where did you get that truck"?? I just put almost 2 tons in and it isn't sagging at all !!!!. On the scale, that load weighed 1.83 tons.
Next 3 trips weighed in at 1.8, 1.81, and then 2.01 tons respectively.
I drove each load 15 miles to my house and the truck seemed to not mind it one bit - and the braking didn't seem any different than with no load - although I was definitely very careful to start breaking early and all that, but really, it always slowed right down - and never got the scary feeling of being 'pushed' by the load.
anyways, I love my cucv,and its more that proved its usefulness.
oh yeah, so for the future, if I ever get gravel again, I'd probably tell them to keep it under 2 tons if possible - just to be safe
so, what's the most you've ever hauled in a 1008/1028????
