Hank R
Senior Member
- Joined
- May 28, 2014
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- Location
- Princeton B.C. Canada
- Occupation
- Retired Truck driver and School bus driver
About 20 miles then 7 miles on a logging type of road.
Yup. Designed for the (very) average operators that seem as though are getting hired these days...........What is that thing attached to the bed handing in front of the cab? Is that a reminder that the bed is down? ISZ
I don't know about other brands but Cat trucks you can't select reverse with the bed even just raised off the rails, and in forward is limited (normally) to first speed. It also shouts at the operator and logs an Event on the Monitor system if the speed exceeds a certain preset amount when the bed is up. "Up" being anything other than the body sat hard on the frame rails.In the last few years, some of the trucks have interlocked the transmissions to only shift into first gear in order to move the truck while the bed is up. I've been in a couple of trucks that would not move at all if the box was not down and sitting on the frame of the truck.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but allot of the OHV trucks I have seen, back up to a hard stop, to dump into a crusher or other conveyor.I am glad I ran haul trucks that would let you do things, and now I'm done. We would be backing into place and raising the bed, dragging out loads as far as we could for the blade guy. The nanny would have had fits.
Plus if it's any sort of mine waste being dumped over a free edge the usual procedure is to reverse to a point close to the edge, maybe 15ft or so, & dump. Then a track dozer pushes the material over and maintains the dump surface even and level while he's doing it.Correct me if I'm wrong, but allot of the OHV trucks I have seen, back up to a hard stop, to dump into a crusher or other conveyor.
They ain't spreading, and they don't need to pull forward to get the last bit's off the truck.
And before anyone asks, no we didn't put it there - the accident did.And yes, that is the engine leaning up against the side of the rear wheel.
When you consider that it went down over 300ft and left the dump body about half way down I would assume so.Any bouncing involved ?
That wouldn't surprise me in the least.Word around town here is the the Gold and silver pay the power bill at Copper Mt Mine