Your county has one too?
Stopping for gas in Arkansas, the county Shariff pulled next to us, got out shaking his head. He said, "What you boys got there is illegal!"
I could hear his radio squawking, his partner called over that Mabel has breakfast ready!
He then said to get directly on the interstate and out of his county!!
I was in uniform at the time.
“Was that wrong? Should he not have done that?”
“Was that wrong?”
That looks like something my youngest brother would do & he’s not even Canadian..
Is that a beer keg for the air reservoir?
Was it the Mackesey brothers?
Many moons ago like early 1970, when the Honda CB-750 four cylinder motocycle first came out, the local rag had a picture. Some guy decided to tow his small sailboat with it. Cops were not amused.
I always wondered how the bike’s clutch dealt with it. Braking with only a front brake worth a damn would be fun.
Not a tow but... As a teenager working for a certain grocery store I once drove a van wildly overloaded with frozen food from a warehouse to the store. One of those things you realize you did as a kid when you didn’t really know what you were doing. 2 full pallets in one van, basically squashed out flat.
You should see the way things are towed in China.
Comming back from summer camp one year i think half the vehicles were being towed.
The wrecker was towing a five ton with a duce and a half behind it and ajeep trailer hooked on the rear for good luck.
At the bottom is a question what would you do if you saw this rig on the road 29% call the police 71% applaud the driver an get out of the way.
53’ foot trailer on a pin hitch???
Plus 8’ between the pin and King pin
Would have gotten dicey REAL QUICK if that started swaying.
Imagine trying to make a turn with that.
The point of the article is trying
to tout the prowess of Chevrolets’
3/4 ton pickup. (although a mid
2000 model). Both Ford and Dodge
could easily meet or exceed the
Chevrolet’s towing capacities,
given similar GVW’s, powertrains,
and axle ratios. With 10 years
experience purchasing fleet
vehicles for a major power
company, I can honestly say that
none of the big three is ‘better’
than the other. They all perform
their required task equally. If
they didn’t, they wouldn’t sell.
What I’ve observed is a die hard
personal preference. I’ve test
driven them all prior to purchase,
for 10 years. Putting them thru
the paces. My personal preference
is Ford, but is more for comfort
than anything else.
I passed one of these rigs on I-10 in Florida a couple weeks ago. Maybe the same one. I assumed the trailer had to be empty. It was struggling in any case.
I just showed this to my son, who is a trucker. He saw someone else doing something similar. Not a big deal with an empty trailer.
This last summer, we traveled from NC to the UP. In every state along the way, the most aggressively and fastest driven vehicles were the new, Dodge, Ford and Chevy 4x4 pickup trucks, driven by younger men. Oh, and the ones with oversized, wide tires/wheels, stay in your own lane!
I was expecting the pickup to have some sort of modified 5th wheel, not an ordinary hitch. Looks like he did put on a tank that would run the air brakes.
It looks like it could work if the box was empty, but my biggest concern would be the pin he used on the hitch arrangement.
Your county has one too?
Maximum Load 46,000 lbs
Maximum Gross 80,000 lbs
Steer axle Weight 12,000
80,000 - 12,000 = 68,000 lbs
68,000 / 2 = 34,000 lbs
Drive or Trailer axle max 34,000 lbs
34,000 / 8 tires = 4,250 lbs per tire
Silverado 1 axle not 2, double the road surface weight.
8,500 lbs per tire on to the road surface
That could heavily damage the highway surface.
Transportation department should send the Chevy Silverado pick up driver a bill for $10 million dollars to repair the highway damage of new cracks and pot holes.
A 53 foot trailer. A semi trailer he was towing? I wonder why he did it...
When I first started driving, I had a POS 1977 Plymouth Arrow.
At 72k miles, after numerous head rebuilds, points, plugs, alternators, wires, radiators, etc, the transmission let go.
This was on the highway going about 60mph.
I called my neighbor who had a wrecking business. He picked me up with his small wrecker, a typical highway sized tow truck you see these days.
On the way home, the small wrecker developed an extremely loud engine knock and we stopped. He radioed home, his wife brought the big wrecker, which was this 1950s era relic that hauled tractor/trailers without the trailer.
We hooked the little wrecker to the big wrecked and drove the 20 miles home. Of course, this was the mid 80s, so no one gave us a second look. heh.
I wish I had a picture.