Using 5 ton cargo trucks for adventure type ventures

[Karl kostman]

A while back somebody posted a 939 series truck crossing a river at pretty high speed, the driver hit something in the process of crossing and had the front end of the truck about 5 feet off the ground, THAT would be one H-ll of and adventure!!!!!
Karl

 

[IsaLandr]

So... I have to ask... I watched the video, and everything else aside, why was the alarm buzzer staying on? I don't know too much about the A1 and A2 trucks, ours are plain A0, but... in ours, the buzzer only goes off if the spring brakes are set or if the air is low. Pushing the spring brake override doesn't set off the alarm. I have yet to find anything else that will set off the alarm in ours, in the almost a year and a half that I've been driving it.

Was he driving with the air too low? Or does something else set off the alarm in the A1/A2 trucks?

 

[charger53]

So... I have to ask... I watched the video, and everything else aside, why was the alarm buzzer staying on? I don't know too much about the A1 and A2 trucks, ours are plain A0, but... in ours, the buzzer only goes off if the spring brakes are set or if the air is low. Pushing the spring brake override doesn't set off the alarm. I have yet to find anything else that will set off the alarm in ours, in the almost a year and a half that I've been driving it.

Was he driving with the air too low? Or does something else set off the alarm in the A1/A2 trucks?

Mine will set the annoying alarm if the ABS detects a problem.

 

[IsaLandr]

Mine will set the annoying alarm if the ABS detects a problem.

On ours, the ABS light just comes on if there's a problem. Which has happened, though it appears to be resolved now. No alarm, however.

 

[acme66]

That might have been us, we use the trucks to give off road historical tours in Montana. www.nelsonoffroad.com

Ken

 

[charger53]

On ours, the ABS light just comes on if there's a problem. Which has happened, though it appears to be resolved now. No alarm, however.

I have had the ABS light come on one time. It was accompanied by a lower tone than the air buzzer annoying noise. could have been something else, but as soon as I found the wire unplugged in the abs and restarted the truck the buzzer went away to.