Semptember 21st, 2008.
Boys, I HATE to Differ on the Firetrucks weight, BUT.......
I can guarantee that the fire truck stripped would not be as light as 8,000 LBs!!! I had a 1951 Ford F6 Dumptruck with no extra equipment, smaller then that firetruck and it weighed 13,000 empty and 21,000 loaded! There was never a medium duty truck built in the 1950's that weighed 8,000 unless it was the bare cab and chassis!!! My 1989 F250 4x4 XLT weint 4,700 on the scale stock, and it was a light truck by 1950's truck standards......
Personally, I think you guys that haul up near the limits (OR OVER) of your rigs are risking more then a fine..... and ALL it's gonna take is one really good publicised wreck with these set ups, and it ALL OVER! Anyone want to ride a CalTrans train with a texting engineer? Ricky Gates messed it up for us locomotive engineers and train crews in the 1980's...... Whose it gonna be for the MV hobby or truck users?????
No matter what your trailers axles can take.... no matter what its brakes can stop..... ALL it takes is a tire blowing out at speed and you'll get a completely new view of pucker factor if you survive!!! AND you don't have the right to threaten other users of the road with dismemberment and death from your mistakes..... WONDER why the Army wouldn't use anything smaller then a deuce wrecker to move a deuce on the road????
Just my
worth, but as a group, a hobby, or a commercial sector, we are sitting on a knife's edge, and all it takes is a little shove to fall off....
Sincerely,
Kyle F. McGrogan
1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 Wo/W "Saddam's Nightmare", Desert Storm and Vietnam Veteran Truck
1968 Johnson Corp M105A2 Cargo Trailer
1963 Swiss Army Cargo Unimog S.404.114 MB
1967 Hercules MEP023A Gen Set APU