speed limit when bobtailing

You still have to go through the scales if they are open.

 

There are no stupid questions, thanks for asking.

 

A tractor is not a truck? Can`t believe this, your kidding, right.

 

That's funny, I just went to Kenworth's website and it said Kenworth Truck Company. Go to Peterbuilt's site and you have a Trucks options to click on. And that is from the ones who make them. Me personally, I can see them called both and both being correct.

 

It's true. It's OK to call it a truck as long as you 'know' the difference if asked in an official capacity. People refer to the 'motor' under the hood but it's technically an engine.

Reminds me of the time I went down to the local gun store to purchase a pistol. They have a written test for potential gun buyers wherein you have to know the difference between the words 'pistol', 'gun', 'rifle', 'revolver', 'muzzleloader', etc. I didn't have to take the test thankfully because I had served in the Marines; all that beer drinking, partying, skirt chasing really paid off lol luckily for me because I probably would have failed that test.

 

Bobtailing at 65 MPH is very dangeous cause you have no weight on your fifth wheel to keep your drivers down when you hit the brakes.

 

Lets argue over a question that is about 3 and 1/2 years old,

and has an answer that any truck driver should already know !!!

Then we'll discuss what's wrong with trucking today !!!

I'd shake my head in wonderment, but don't want to wake up the neighbors !!

 

I am leased to a power only company and bobtail a minimum of 20,000 miles per year. As long as one recongnizes how a bobtail tractor handles differently than a tractor and trailer together there are no hard and fast rules about speed.

Most laws, including the one mentioned in California lump bobtails together with all other "trucks" If you read the sign carefully in CA even RV's hauled by a pickup or car are required to stay at 55 mph.

 

Yup, it's a tractor not a truck. Consider we buy and they market motor oil thyat actually goes in our engines. Also consider this the week end is friday and saturday. Sunday is the first day of the week... oh well. Who's in charge of all this craziness???