A bunch of us shoveled it into the bed of his BRAND NEW half-ton Chevy.
Before going ten feet he realized his rims were on the ground!
120 PSI in all four helped a lot.
A change of plans, he drove and we shoveled into the gravel lane I live on until he felt it was OK.
Pea gravel is about 3,000 a cubic yard. It was slightly overloaded. If he drove slow he might have made it home?
I would think a bottle opener on the tail lights would beat this ...
... but I guess all bottles have twist-off caps now.
So everyone can see if you are overloaded?
No thanks.
“Yo’ mama so fat — she got all four lights in her taillight lit up!”
guess it’s an interesting addition, but the cumulative list of these cool, but mostly unnecessary ‘features’ is driving up the cost so high they are becoming unaffordable, and the higher the price, the higher the profit.
Just build me a basic truck, don’t need lcd screens, don’t need cameras, don’t need power windows, don’t need heated seats or surround sound etc and barely need AC - and definitely don’t need the truck to tell me when I put too much of a load into it.
Sell me a solid truck that will last and is easy to fix. Until then, I’ll keep what I have.
No wonder there is not enough computer chips available.
Has anyone seen rear tail lights that flash when the person puts on the brakes? I’ve seen this more often than usual and wondering whether it is just more people feathering the brakes or is some new innovation that is supposedly to increase safety, but is just annoying.
As an engineer all i can think of when I see stuff like this is “greater complexity = gonna break more and be more expensive to fix”. Sometimes it’s worth it. Not a pickup driver so won’t try to claim an opinion on this one.
Going with excess weight is hard on a lot of truck components but let’s just look at wheel bearings....
The equation from ISO 281 or the American Bearing Manufacturers Association (ABMA) Standards 9 and 11 figures basic, nonadjusted rating life by:
L10 = (C ⁄ P)p in millions of revolutions
where C = basic dynamic load rating, lb; P = equivalent dynamic bearing load, lb; p = life-equation exponent ( p = 3 for ball bearings; and p = 10/3 for roller bearings)
My apologies for the formatting of the formula but ‘p’ is the exponent that (C/P) is raised to.... 3 for ball bearings and 3.3333 for roller bearings. Double the load on the bearings and the life essentially is reduced to 1/8 the revolutions (or distance travelled).
Exponents will come back to bite you every time....
A friend of mine told one of his friends that he wanted a truckload of horse manure for his yard. His buddy owned a stable.
My buddy was shocked to drive up to his house to find, not one, but two dump truck loads of horse poop steaming in his driveway. He just wanted a pick up bed full, but his friend measured, “truck loads” differently. He was giving $#!T to anyone who would take some for over a year.
Lane Bryant dress maker, call your office.
Used to know a guy who ran a steel stud operation, turning sheet steel into building studs. One night thieves tried rolling a coil of steel off a flatbed into their pickup...it didn’t go well; the steel coil annihilated the pickup. Don’t think this gadget would’ve helped...